hay yeild

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2012

Well another bumper crop of hay.LOL! Just today baled 7 acres of alfalfa hay and got 19 bales.Not the big bales either ,just the regular small squares. Im happy I got something,some neighbors were cutting the fields and leaving it lay.Here in NE Indiana,the drought has really hurt the hay and corn.Beans seem to be comming along better.I heard that corn yeild in this area are estimated to average 35 bushel per acre.Hope they are wrong! Seen an add today for quallity alfalfa horse hay @ $13 a bale.Wonder how many calls the guy got?? Doug

Larry NEIL · Aug 4, 2012

Just got my 2nd cut in the barn today...minutes before those thunder storms. (3/4")
Did about the same...27 acres, 98 sm. squares! Would have been 50% less without all the queen anns lace and other misc. weeds!

Ken Macfarlane · Aug 4, 2012

Two point something bales per acre? I'd need about 150$ a bale to make that pencil out. Was it getting too mature and had to be cut?

Nebraska Cowman · Aug 4, 2012

My grass hay will not get cut this year. I did get a little alfalfa. Farmers are rolling up anything that will make a turd. drouthed out corn and CRP acres are being hayed. the CRP hay has so much old dead stuff in it it's worse than straw.

Don-Wi · Aug 4, 2012

makes me feel pretty good about our hay. We just finished 3rd crop on wednesday and it was actually thicker than 2nd crop was. We chopped 5 loads of haylage and then baled 300 small squares off about 35 acres. 4th crop should come on strong as we've gotten lots of rain in the last few weeks.

Donovan from wisconsin

tjdub · Aug 4, 2012

Yeah, I know that story. Two weeks ago I cut 6 acres of 3rd crop and got a whole 2.5 round bales off of it. There would have been a lot more but the alfalfa was too short for the rake to grab it very well. It wasn't worth the fuel, BUT it rained right after I cut it and there's probably more 4th crop standing out there already than there was for 3rd crop.

bison · Aug 5, 2012

(quoted from post at 21:07:29 08/04/12) Yeah, I know that story. Two weeks ago I cut 6 acres of 3rd crop and got a whole 2.5 round bales off of it. There would have been a lot more but the alfalfa was too short for the rake to grab it very well. It wasn't worth the fuel, BUT it rained right after I cut it and there's probably more 4th crop standing out there already than there was for 3rd crop.

een there done that,last drought we had i got 45 rounds from 200 acre first cut,...there was no second cut,cut with a 24 ft swather,..still wasn't worth it but wadda ye do? hay was selling for over hunnerd pop a bale,,,even canola straw was fetching 60 bux,...in the field! :shock:
Cows starve to death on that crap,but people were buying. :roll:

RayP(MI) · Aug 5, 2012

Getting about half what I would get in a normal year. Going to be into my last year's stockpile big time this year. Pastures so short I've had to feed hay straight through the summer.

Old Iron · Aug 5, 2012

Normally by August, I've baled somewhere between 340 to 370 big rounds of alfalfa off my hay fields,... this year I've baled 84.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 5, 2012

The standing hay was mature and had started to dry down.Had to cut it to get a chance at another growth.
Worth it $ wise?? ,,no But last night we got 1.6 in of rain.That should make the next cutting grow!! Doug

BigMarv1085 · Aug 5, 2012

We have plenty of hay in our surrounding areas. The rain is scattered and people just don"t realize how bad it gets for some farmers. 2 miles south of us they have had 7 inches of rain. We haven"t had rain in 3 weeks and it was a 1". I feel the pain of you that are in the drought area.

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