Wabi, It's all alfalfa around here. We usually start baling about midnight to catch the dew.
If you let it get dry, the leaves all fall off and protein count drops to hell. Not to mention that you can only get fifty pounds into a bale unless there's a bit of moisture in it. Our baler is a 14x16 set to 42 inches. I like to make an 80 to 85 lb bale. It runs through the stack wagon well, and does not take on water as badly in the stack.
We run the swather, a couple days later turn or rake two into one so the bottom can dry. Then a couple days later in good, dry, hot conditions it will be thoroughly dried. So you wait for the dew to let it get wet enough to bale.
