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I mowed one small field Monday AM. The forecast was only so-so, and the ground is a little on the wet side, so I didn't want to risk very much. I tedded it out Monday mid-afternoon, then I was back by 9:30 Tuesday tedding it again. At that point I was surprised at how dry it was, and I could see that more of it would be ready that afternoon than I thought. I started raking at 2:30 and baling at 3:45. Since I cut back five years ago I pull the baler with my old Ford 971D, with an open station tractor you can see your tire lugs and see how wet the ground is. I kept checking for moisture in the windrows and the weight of my bales. I was able to bale the whole field after only a day and a half, and I have to say that it was the wind and the low humidity that made the difference. Normally a windrow on wet ground will suck moisture out of the ground but this didn't happen yesterday.
 
Can't get four days of sunny weather in a row here. Usually there will be two or three days then rain. Not a lot of rain. Just enough to ruin any hay that would be down.

Three days just isn't enough to make dry hay around here.
 
Mowed hay all yesterday morning into the
afternoon. Started out at 85* and was 95*
when I finished. Had 12 mph wind all day
with clear sky. No rain predicted for a
week at least and temperatures reaching
100*. Sweet corn in the garden is beginning
to curl so I will have to begin watering
everything that will be affected.
 

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yea I am going to start this week, have one field I want to put in soybeans in yet. put a new hay field in this spring to replace it. last few year only getting started
but 20 years ago would have been looking a second cutting in a few weeks. seems planting windows keep getting pushed back around here with the weather.
 
My wife cut part of our last field yesterday morning I tedder it when she was done, checked it about 4:00 just about dry tedded it again before dinner should be dry enough to bale today. Every thing we have baled except for 130 bale were sold before it was put in the barn.
 
It is a merger. It sweeps up about 50' of
hay onto a belt that takes it sideways to
combine swathes into big windrows. A big
Claas chopper chops it into trucks and
it's down the road. I live in a dairy
region. I have 112 acres of hay that I
sell standing to a big dairy. My small
part in the dairy business. None of those
fancy toys are mine.
 
Lot of second round - first cutting going on here. We will finish up our first cuttings hopefully by the end of this weekend. Hay has dried faster this year
than I can remember.

Bill
 
Weather guessers here said little chance so I mowed Saturday. It's rained every day since. Night before last we got a toad strangler and the flash flood took part of the field of hay out in the road. Well, that field is totaled for this cutting, now I just need it to get dry enough I can get it off the field and let 2nd cutting come on. We were without power ever since the bad storm and just got it back on at about 3:15 this afternoon. High 90s with no air is sure rough on this old man but we made it.
 
I have 8 acres of Timothy to go. Been too rainy up here last 1 1/2 weeks. Today was 1st non-rain day in 5 but more coming tomorrow. But good weather is forecast after tomorrow. Then down it goes. Rain or dark, no problem. Gotta love a discbine.
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