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wi_buff_farmer

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Virtually impossible to get a stitch of dry hay here in the tip of northeast wisconsin so far.. Most days are cloudy with that stagnet humid air. Not much for wind or sun. Got a tenth of a inch last night on a pop up shower that wasnt suppose to happen. Rain every 3 or 4 days in the forcast

cant win here. Pastures are doing the best ever but getting dry hay in is a total joke

its one of them hair pulling out type years.
 
I've been right in a dry slot. Rain both sides of me by only a few miles. It wasn't like it was supposed to be the last few days. Was supposed to be sunny,ended up cloudy until mid afternoon yesterday. I knocked down the last 22 acres of 160 Thursday. I raked it yesterday afternoon in the high wind and sunshine. I'm just waiting for the dew to go off this morning so I can get started baling. I've got a bad feeling about it. I haven't worked a Sunday yet this year. Hate to try it today,but there's rain in the forecast tomorrow and Tuesday.
I know how you feel though. The last two years,it's been around July 10th before I got done. Might be again if that heavy raked hay gets rained on due to a breakdown.
 

Here in Northwest Iowa we have had a few dry days between rains. Hay cutting is behind schedule though. Neighbor across the fence cut some brome Wednesday, got .18 rain on it that night, raked and baled it yesterday and it was plenty dry.
 
Aren't the majority of WI summers like this???

There's a reason companies like Fox and Gehl were based here. And why they made choppers, and not balers.

I'm not trying to be a wiseacre, but in reality baling in WI is a very hit and miss proposition, at least during the first half of summer. It's been bad enough getting haylage put up this year let alone baling.
 
no the summers arn't like this usually! the last two junes have been very very wet... Almost all beef operations up here and baled hay. Only thing that gets chopped is corn

it usually not a problem here. But this rain every 3 or 4 days is not the usual
 
Down here in Missouri we have had 2 dry times to cut and bale hay and so far that is all we have had. O have maybe 1/3 of mine done so far this year. I'd have more done but I keep having a break down and it is hard to get hay down when the mower breaks down.
 
Been a hit and miss situation here in the Mohawk Valley region of New York... mostly miss. Got some hay done end of May and last week when we had 2.5 days without rain. It's even hard to squeeze in baleage...We have had 8.75 inches of rain in June.. so far ...and it's still raining. I remember a year on my fathers dairy farm in the late '50s .. never did start haying until late July that year. Was just finishing up when I went back to school just after Labor Day... hope we don't get a repeat.
 
Got a good snap right now in (mid)eastern Wi. Seems most of the rain chances are breaking lately(or barely settles the dust). Ground(we have clay) is work able again, since our last continual sting of rain. Still a few chances of rain coming in the next week(we'll see). Lot more ground to cover(work, cut, bale) though.

Have quite a few acre of grass, that's drying nice. My brother is out rolling outside rounds off a piece as I type this. Only got the big 30acre piece of new seeding ,for good hay, opened Friday. Didn't check that. Its all standing near knee/waste high, just starting to blossom. Should get a few bales off anyway, to compensate for the slight delay.

If you want to stop the rain get started on a task that takes time during rain. It works best if project is one that can't stop once started. Then it will clear, but then your stuck on the other project.
 
And here in Sask. it is too dry . I just tried to roll up the first bale here about 6:00 but it started building up on the pickup which is always a sign the hay is too dry. Might wait til sundown or else get out early in the morning if there is any dew. Driest year in a long time. Hot today too in the high 80s,
 
Over here in NE Wisconsin we've had a little bit of decent weather. If we would've ignored the weather forecast we could have had some to bale on Thursday, but we baled 5 loads today for somewhere over 750 bales. Quit for supper around 6. I gotta get some twine tomorrow so we can fill the last 2 wagons before I go to work again tomorrow afternoon.

Dad went to fleet farm and they were out of 9000 and figured he'd go to tsc, but then he forgot to go. We had a bale of plastic in the shed and we put it in, but the baler really doesn't care for plastic, especially on the left side. Made the last load go really slow.

I'll go to the feed mill tomorrow and get some twine on my way to the farm.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Over here in NE Wisconsin we've had a little bit of decent weather. If we would've ignored the weather forecast we could have had some to bale on Thursday, but we baled 5 loads today for somewhere over 750 bales. Quit for supper around 6. I gotta get some twine tomorrow so we can fill the last 2 wagons before I go to work again tomorrow afternoon.

Dad went to fleet farm and they were out of 9000 and figured he'd go to tsc, but then he forgot to go. We had a bale of plastic in the shed and we put it in, but the baler really doesn't care for plastic, especially on the left side. Made the last load go really slow.

I'll go to the feed mill tomorrow and get some twine on my way to the farm.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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