364 round bales from 32 acre field 2016 season

Bruce from Can. · Sep 9, 2016

Did third cutting this week, baled and wrapped Tuesday, 93 third cut . 101 second cut and 170 bales first cut off if this 32 acres. Today's job is to haul them all off the field. My hay season is almost at a end , with only one more field left to be cut, looking for the end of hating as there are many other jobs pressing. Corn to chop, manure to spread, fields to plough. Never a dull moment.

tom stalker · Sep 9, 2016

Enjoy your posts and great photos .

How many cows do you milk ?

NY 986 · Sep 9, 2016

A little surprising even with the drought that guys are already chopping corn here.

Pair-a-dice farm · Sep 9, 2016

That's pretty darn good, what size do you make your bales? I've got one 30 acre field that I've made 220 4x6' bales this year off of 2 cuttings. I might could get a 3rd but I'm turning the cows in. The rest of my fields haven't done quite as well.

bja105 · Sep 9, 2016

More details please!
What size bales?
What species of grass?
Did you soil test? How many times per year?
What do you apply to the field? Manure, fertilizer, lime?
Was this yeild far above average?

Your per acre yeild interpolated to my 6 acre field would have given me 79 bales. My field had been mined by renters, and soil tests say I need a lot of everything. I got 28 4x4's first cut, and the very short, thin second chemist got 3 inches of rain on the windrows that were ready to bale.

Bruce from Can. · Sep 9, 2016

We milked 63 this morning , and have 73 stalls under the milk line , so the goal is to
milk 73 every milking . once I get there , time for new goal. I have another 32 stalls
with no milk line that I put dry cows and bred heifers in. Bruce

Kickinbull · Sep 9, 2016

My guess is your new goal will be more milk line!

Bruce from Can. · Sep 9, 2016

54"x4' bales . They are so darn heavy that if I make them any bigger they snap the
cable on the winch , on the feed car in the barn .

Bruce from Can. · Sep 9, 2016

This field had been in two 16 acre parcels last year , The top half was a second year
stand of Alfalfa , and the bottom was sowen to spring grain and under seeded to a
mixture of 40% Red Clover , 40% Alfalfa, 20% Timothy. The bottom half was lightly
covered with manure . So this year the top half was 3rd year stand of Alfalfa , and
the bottom half was first year stand of Red Clover . Next year the Red Clover will be
gone , and the Alfalfa will take over . I do not buy any Fert, and we don't ever lime
our ground here , as there is a lot of natural lime in the ground . So much lime it
kills our coffee makers and water heaters if you don't have water softeners.
I usually turn hay fields over every three years , so the top half should be
manured and ploughed down this fall , but I might let it go one more year as I have
57 acres to seed down on this place next year, and it won't fit well with my rotation
. This hay was cut one day and baled the next, then wrapped . Red Clover is tough to
make dry hay from , but is excellent feed in wet wrapped bales . Bruce

GordoSD · Sep 10, 2016

Most alfalfa producer here keep their fields at least 7 years before turning unless some sort of weather catastrophe.

showcrop · Sep 10, 2016

Sounds suspicious to me. I bet you cheated and put rain on it, LOL.

364 round bales from 32 acre field 2016 season

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