Haying in the hummocks and more

[gcreekrch]

The lambs are growing, the oldest would be 14 weeks now

Willow in bloom

We've been bouncing over the rocks and hummocks for 2/3 crop for 2 weeks now.

Swathes

Weedeater

My summer home

The wife's cottage. Her air conditioner gave out yesterday, they want close to a thousand bucks to drive 230 miles to recharge it. It will be cheaper for us to haul it to them.

What hay we're getting is good quality

 

[Soapweed]

Nice pictures. Green is a pretty color. :wink:

 

[Ben H]

I wish I could make some hay, I have 30 acres of 1st crop left. We haven't had a big enough window to dry anything in well over a month. I'm sure there has been rainier summers here, but not that I can remember. The feeders are graqzing the alfalfa/grass second crop right now being moved every other day. I didn't have any problems with bloat switching over.

 

[burnt]

Same here, Ben. The wheat crop, and now the barley, has come off in little chunks between little rain showers that come almost every other day. The barley has come off dry but much of the wheat needed to be dried. Fortunately, we do get a lot of sunshine between the showers. It's kinda like a rain forest around here, so stuff is growing like crazy.

It has been impossible to make good second cut dry hay. Good hay is an outrageous price and I don't want to think about what it costs me every time I put a bale in the feeder. It's worth way more to sell than to feed to beef cattle.

In our area, we have not had big accumulations of rain - only 2/10ths or maybe 4/10ths at a time, but one hour south of us, one farmer reported getting 12" in the month of July, including a 3" and 6" dump.

The winter wheat yields blew out all the records though, with many fields producing an astounding 100 - 105 bu/ac. Some has mildew or fusarium due to all the rain. I never saw the corn and beans look so good. Barring any weather problems, there will be a storage problem this fall.

 

[DiamondSCattleCo]

Recharge your AC yourself. The hose is commonly available at virtually every Co-op. Three cans of Red-Tec or Glacier Gold and you're set.

Rod

 

[HAY MAKER]

Recharge your AC yourself. The hose is commonly available at virtually every Co-op. Three cans of Red-Tec or Glacier Gold and you're set.

Rod

I agree,never recharged a John deere,but New Holland is pretty simple.
good luck

 

[gcreekrch]

Recharge your AC yourself. The hose is commonly available at virtually every Co-op. Three cans of Red-Tec or Glacier Gold and you're set.

Rod

I agree,never recharged a John deere,but New Holland is pretty simple.
good luck

I have just now recieved the best advice on this forum. Now if I can find some in 'save the world' B C.

Thanks guys

 

[gcreekrch]

Ben H, doesn't anyone own a bale wrapper in your area?

 

[Jigger Boss]

Thanks for the pics . Looks like its still nice and green in your neck of the woods. . Its pretty darn dry and parched here, we could use a real good rain or two. Got all the haying done on my place, just gotta pick the rest of the bales off the field today and get them under cover. Still got more haying to do at the neighbours though. Suppost to get light rain tomorrow so we'll see what kind of window we get after that.

 

[Ben H]

actually I'm kicking myself, I own a wrapper. I was waiting for the next dry window because I tend to not want to wrap poor quality feed. It was a little later getting to this piece to begin with, and now it's past the point of wanting to wrap it.

 

[gcreekrch]

Just wrap it. The quality will be better today than it will be tommorrow.