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Offline timberfaller390

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It's that time of year again
« on: May 06, 2010, 07:20:43 am »
 IT'S HAY SEASON  8)  8)  8) Heading out to mow the first cutting this morning. Anybody else getting up hay yet?
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2010, 07:27:39 am »
Wow you're really ahead of us on it. We won't start for another month yet but the weather has been perfect this spring and our stands look really good.

On a side note we finished up drilling beans today. The earliest we've had everything planted in my memory.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2010, 07:35:21 am »
I'll be getting the crop fields planted in a week or so, the last couple years produce has taken a backseat to the hay. After all the rain last year I am just glad to see a little dust behind the tractor again.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2010, 07:41:19 am »
Haying is right around the corner here, alfalfa is over a foot tall and the orchard grass is in bud stage, if I were still milking cows 1st cutting would be done this week . ( all haylage ).
and we would be planning on 4 cuttings, but I'm not.......  30 acres will be all hay and will probably not get done until Memorial day weekend or after weather depending ...
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2010, 09:40:20 am »
The hay fields here are just starting to show a little green; they will be ready to cut by mid-July.

The big tractors are warmed up and the seeders dusted off but no one has actually started yet.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2010, 12:57:35 pm »
Seeding around here was just starting about a week or so ago.  Rain and snow has been keeping us out of the fields.  Where I am working it is the wettest I have seen at this time of the year.  We are fertilizing the fields with hog manure which basically goes on as liquid.  We had to shut down as I was cutting ruts in the fields up to 2 feet deep in places and that isn't even where I had dumped any of the 9500 gallons per acre.  I now believe that seeding is going to be a bit on the late side by the time thinngs get dried up to run.

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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2010, 01:11:15 pm »
late june or early july for first cut here potato farmers ar starting to plant now.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2010, 11:05:48 pm »
Ya know, that mowing hay is normally fun but add sorting cattle and trying to get the place ready to host a rodeo this weekend and it becomes quiet a chore trying to find time to do everything that needs done.. I hit the ground running at 5 am this morning and it's now 11 pm and I just walked in the door. Probably going to have to put in the same hours the next few days.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2010, 03:47:05 am »
Gday

Tfaller  i ment to reply to youm pm yesterday about hay being a pretty big business around home here Mate  ;) ;D ;D 8)  its nearly over for us for another season this year and this one was a big one as there are trucks allover the joint carting hay atm as there was a glut in crop hay they are getting about $120 au a ton  loaded on the truck in paddock and last year it was about $245 a ton plus  but blokes are still makin money  ;D;)   as alot of farmers bailed their crops this year but lucerine stayed pretty steady in price and alot of farmers are doing their last cut in irragation areas atm  ;)

there was also alot of export hay go out aswell one of my mates has around 10000 750kg bales or about 7500 ton  in storage in his hay sheds for another company that that also stocked up on hay to export to China and Japan in 40' hicube containers I got told the other day they have have about 40000ton  :o in their own storage and in paddock stacks aswell thats alot of bloody hay to cut but its always been a pretty big business up this way and further north  ;) ;D 8) 8)

on a side note my Grandfather was one of the largest hay contractors in victoria in the 50s60s&70s and use to do all the testing for New Holland on their bailers for the Australian Market and did Treated posts and Firewood and General Haulage in the off season before he got into fulltime sawmilling in the mid to late 70s  ;)  ;D  8)  8)

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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2010, 05:41:08 am »
Around here most people cut their hay around June 20-25, for baled hay, mid-May and then again in August for haylage!
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2010, 07:58:37 am »
I miss haying sold off my machinery three years ago,the owner of the fields was going to sell.Sale never came about now theirs alders six feet high, it hurts I cleared the land as a young man,plowed and seeded.All my equip was old I even crimped as a seperate operation,had a big old New Holland bailer pulled with a JD 70 diesel.Frank C.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2010, 11:58:23 pm »
I feel really good about hay this year. All my equipment (except 1 tractor) is old. The baler is a '68 model and god only knows about the rake and tedder. I started out with an early 40's JD sickle mower that I rigged up for 3pt, an old Case side rake and the baler I have now. I just mowed the hay, let it cure and baled, no conditioner, no tedding, nothing. The baler wouldn't tie the right knot most of the time so a buddy drove the tractor and I rode on the baler and tied the knots it would miss. We put up about 5000 bales like that. I paid for everything the first year. This year I picked up a NH haybine in great shape and an old tedder.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2010, 01:05:37 am »
TF, I have been zigzagging accross MS all week.  Lots of haying going on here.  I may cut some this weekend. 
You will like the tedder. 
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2010, 01:32:00 am »
You guys are sure ahead of us here in Ore I generaly spend me 4th of July weekend in the hay ;) ;)
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #14 on: May 30, 2010, 12:49:22 pm »
Well it's that time of year at our place finally.



The top two terraces are alfalfa we planted in 2009. You can just see the drilled beans below them starting to show. The next field closer is corn that we planted on April 15th. It got nipped by a late frost but came back up fine.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2010, 01:00:32 pm »
That's beautiful, Norm.

Back in the early 60's while going through Iowa on vacation, because of scenes like this, I decided I wanted to go to ISU at Ames and learn the finer points of farming.  The first winter in Ames made me wonder what the heck I was doing there ::)  There's been lots of times after I started farming that I wondered  what the heck I'm doing :D :D
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2010, 03:14:49 pm »
Noble, like most states in the midwest, you gotta be tough as nails or just crazy to love the farm jobs. It is cold & snowy in the winter and hot & humid in the summer. I do not care to guess which one we fall under, tough or crazy, but we sure love living in Iowa and working our land. It is the most satisfying venture we have ever undertaken. I truly understand why you decided to go into farming after traveling through Iowa in June.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #17 on: May 30, 2010, 03:32:51 pm »
Probably 3-4 more weeks before we get our one and only cutting of hay. The way time passes it will be here before we know it.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #18 on: May 30, 2010, 03:33:27 pm »
The first brome hay has been dropped. The first cutting of alfalfa is either in progress or is done.
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Re: It's that time of year again
« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2010, 06:44:58 am »
hay was knocked down on saturday, shaken, yesterday, should be all rolled up tonight and 1st cutting will be done for the season..
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