Originally Posted by Lennie
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.





I'm still running an old NH 488 Haybine. I can't cut 33 acres a day........lol. Of course, I don't need to, and that's why your machinery should match the size of your operation.