If you want to experience how fast ag is changing, try running a rotary swathed at 18 mph cutting hay. It takes GPS steering and fields as smooth as a billiards table to do that. It means you are cutting 33 acres per hour or 330 acres in a ten hour day. One man running a new rotary swather accomplishes what 5 Men in sickle machines did 20 years ago.
One of my neighbors just started using a rotary. With the amount of rocks we have around, I’m too chicken to even go there. But when he’s cutting, he’s really getting things done.
What’s speeding things up is the new balers. If you can keep them running...
