Hay yeild

clint s · Jul 1, 2012

We are seeing a little less than 1/2 of what we see on a good year for hay around here. What's everyone else seeing. We got in a lot today that we usually see about 500 bales from and got 275 today. We usually sell our excess to the Amish and they may have to look elsewhere this year.

Allan in NE · Jul 1, 2012

Consider yourself lucky.

Zero hay here this year. None. :>(

Allan

old · Jul 1, 2012

Here in Missouri what I have seen and heard is about 1/2 of a normal years if there is any such thing. Hay seems to be very good but a lot less of it. Now most of the hay fields as now looking more like desserts then pastures

uncle henry · Jul 1, 2012

so far this year in east texas about normal but 100%
better than last year

Zachary Hoyt · Jul 1, 2012

We're seeing about 65-75% of a good year in most of our fields.
They are spotty, some areas are really nice and some are dreadful.
Zach

ken house · Jul 1, 2012

middle tennessee friend , says he cut raked and baled in a convoy. baling finished 30 minutes behind mower. it is so dry .

Farmallhal · Jul 1, 2012

I'm in south central Missouri about 50 miles SE of old and things are about as he reported here as well. I am very lucky in that I have some bottom fields of red clover that were cut back in May which were outstanding like over 100 small square bales to the acre. The grass hay (fescue mix) on our place is about normal (60-80 small squares bales per acre) as I fertilized in late winter before the spring rains and as the neighbors say I have that precious bottom ground with deep top soil. Neighbors aren't doing as well as some normal hay fields are rapidly turning into summer grazing lands for their cattle herds. In general, the pastures around these parts look like they normally do in mid-August and we are just starting into July. Ponds and some springs are drying up or barely running around here as well. There's talk that some folks are going to start feeding hay this summer or selling cattle as they are "hobby farmers" with small acreages and too many cows for their land to support with no rain and high hot temperatures and the lack of available hay. I'm still hoping for rain and another cutting on the clover fields though, Hal.

David G · Jul 1, 2012

About 50% in Eastern Iowa.

gold1456 · Jul 1, 2012

Here in south central wisconsin about half.

SouthernFarmall · Jul 1, 2012

I am at about 75 percent of a good year on my coastal
bermuda. We are really dry now, though. Patches of my
hayfields have turned the color and texture of cured hay. I can
pluck patches of hay from the ground and you couldn't tell the
difference between it and baled hay.

SF

wolfman · Jul 1, 2012

Variable here in s.w. Pa. Hay on the limestone clay
ground is very heavy like other years. On lighter
soils, much less hay than normal years - maybe 2/3
as much.

cushman · Jul 1, 2012

We have seen more like 25% of normal here in NE Ohio.It has been pretty sorry.The first cutting was good though.

Hayfarmer · Jul 1, 2012

I am out in Central Washington state, our hay yield is about normal, but rain at the wrong time and a lot got rained on when down. Also due to rain there is still a lot of hay tocut. Mostlyt Timothy out here and normal year guys are done by the 4th of July. This year not so. Will put our second cutting into September or October when it is hard to dry

sflem849 · Jul 1, 2012

(quoted from post at 18:07:33 07/01/12) Here in south central wisconsin about half.

Just east of there. First crop was very good, second was light, and we might get a third.

GordoSD · Jul 1, 2012

Cornj, beans, sogham?

DK44H · Jul 1, 2012

Not sure where Allan is but here in south central Nebraska we had a good first cutting, about 2/3 second cutting, and will be starting the 3rd go round tomorrow. As soon as the first cutting came we might even be able to get 5 cuttings this year compared to the normal 4.

craig reavley · Jul 2, 2012

Maybe 50% of normal. Getting ready to cut about 18 acres tonight. the hay is knee high and thin as I have ever seen it in central Illinois. Since Hay is all I do its gonna be a tough year.

Harold Hubbard · Jul 2, 2012

Variable here. I am on a hill farm in central Vermont, and some of my ground is VERY moisture sensitive. Two inches of stony topsoil over solid ledge doesn't hold much water. We were short of rain in mid to late May, and it shows.

I am half way through first cut, and getting from 60% to 120% of "average". Some of the lower yields are from dry weather, some from just getting on to it earlier than any time in the past five years. Having no money for fertilizer this spring hasn't helped either.

The higher yields are from new seeding really kicking in at three years old, and the twenty tons of wood ash I put down on some other places last spring.

Second cut is doing all right in some places, others look as if they may just sit there and look stupid. I generally get a second cutting on only about half my acreage, the rest gets grazed off for second cut, and whatever third cut there may be.

sflem849 · Jul 2, 2012

(quoted from post at 21:27:51 07/01/12) Not sure where Allan is but here in south central Nebraska we had a good first cutting, about 2/3 second cutting, and will be starting the 3rd go round tomorrow. As soon as the first cutting came we might even be able to get 5 cuttings this year compared to the normal 4.

That's how we were thinking in spring.

Are you talking irrigated hay?

DK44H · Jul 2, 2012

No not irrigated. One 40 acre field is under pivot but the other
100 acres is dryland. We caught a couple timely rains a few
weeks ago which helped a lot. Just got in from the start of my
3rd cutting and it's looking better than I figured. Probably right
there with the 2nd cutting which was a little over half of the
first.

clint s · Jul 4, 2012

(quoted from post at 16:19:40 07/01/12) middle tennessee friend , says he cut raked and baled in a convoy. baling finished 30 minutes behind mower. it is so dry .

We have had a few fields this year we cut , raked and baled all on the same day almost was not worth burning all the gas for 50 to 100 bales. We are a hoppy farm our fields range from 2 to 10 acres. We only have a few cows and sell the rest.

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