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Knocked down 20 acres of hay, so it begins.

Bruce from Can.

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada
I don't have a big farm , but seem to do hay all summer . 70 acres first cut haylage through the harvester comes first . Then another 70 acres of first cut baleage. Followed by about 80 acres of dry grass hay. I will do 3 cuts on the first 70 acres with the forage harvester , and three cuts on the second 70 acres that will get baled and wrapped. Add it all up and I will cut some 500 acres of hay in total. Will burn up some where near 100 gallons of gas through my swather cutting it all, around $500.00 worth of gas , maybe a bit more. Yeesh ! Good thing I have all summer to get it done ,lol. Bruce
 
May God bless you all who feed cows. Dairy is king here in central NY, but they're not farms any more, they're milk factories.
I'm surprised you can cut all that with 100 gal's. of gas. Gas delivered here in April was $2.146/gal, and if I am persistent enough, I get four taxes refunded out of that. One federal and three state.
 
Thats really quite economical on fuel for the acres! I bet I burn almost that much diesel cutting 200 acres worth with the discbine.
 
Years ago we started with plowing down a tall stand of sweet clover for somerfallow, then mowed the first cutting of alfalfa & brome. Then it was 2nd cutting of alfalfa before we had to start swathing grain. If it was a real good year, we got a 3rd cutting of alfalfa after grain harvest. Then we baled straw and hoped the frost held off long enough to cut the corn for silage. Then on to fall plowing; sometime it started snowing before we could finish fall plowing - we actually plowed under snow until it go too slippery to pull the plows.
 
Yep, and milk the moo-ers twice a day through all that, including through the winter when the crop guys are taking it easy. Dairying is just too darn steady.
 
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