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4th cutting of alfalfa?


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Cousin has 3 and ran out of storage, could be a fourth but doesn't have room to store it.
A bunch of the corn was really dry so that was picked in a couple fields. The ethanol plants are not taking nearly the corn this year so they have to get it in to the co-op before it runs out of room. I will probably hear what the moisture is this weekend when I'm up there. Beans are getting dry too.


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Originally Posted by wabigoon
Sam how is the corn, have you chopped it?


I started a construction job on Monday and today my cousin called and needed help chopping. Damn timing sucks.


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Originally Posted by wabigoon
Sam how is the corn, have you chopped it?




It froze last week.


Waiting on the chopping crew....

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Been a pretty average year around here
Rain-wise. I have taken my 5th cutting of
alfalfa and could get a 6th if temps
stay in the 80s for a couple more weeks
and we get one more decent rain.

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The chitty part about trying to grow alfalfa right now is that the whitetail are eating it off about as fast as it grows.

Around the edges anyway.


And they are no doubt still living in the corn.


Walking around right now knocking off leaves.

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Brings back nightmares. In west central Ks as a teenager in the 60 s, I picked up, hauled and stacked many thousand of the smaller square bales. Hard work and low pay.


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Originally Posted by SamOlson
The chitty part about trying to grow alfalfa right now is that the whitetail are eating it off about as fast as it grows.

Around the edges anyway.


And they are no doubt still living in the corn.


Walking around right now knocking off leaves.


Not this year,

But do you need someone to come remove a few alfalfa fattened whitetail?

I wonder about my rancher neighbor and his pivot field. At certain times of the year I've seen 30+ deer out there, usually winter when he has pulled the cows off it, and spring when it's just starting to grow fast again. I figure them things have to be eating equal to a bale or two a day, for months at a time. That's money out of his pocket.

I don;t think he even puts in for depredation permits for his family.


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Originally Posted by dale06
Brings back nightmares. In west central Ks as a teenager in the 60 s, I picked up, hauled and stacked many thousand of the smaller square bales. Hard work and low pay.


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Might get two cuttings here this year.

If it'll rain a bit more, that is...


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We've had one of the wettest summers on record here. My pastures are in the best shape they've been in since I got back in the cattle business. Of course, I've also spent a lot of money trying to make them that way. I'm only doing one cutting on hay, as I am planting wheat for hay, and that only yields one cutting, and I'll always cut one of the fields of fescue and clover, then use it for pasture. This year, I could have easily gotten a second cutting off the pasture field, as I didn't need it for pasture.

I have twice as much hay this year as I did last, and may even have some to sell if I go that route. I have some CRP ground coming out October 1, and I'm going to spray it down and reseed it for hay. My son and I are considering getting into the hay business, at least on a small scale, as there is a local hay man that's retiring this year, and there will be some hay ground available for the taking. We'll see how it goes, as we do need to utilize some of our equipment more than we do, but I don't want to work all the time either.

The hay cutting business here is always a risk in late spring and early summer, as it seems to rain about every 3 days. We have been very, very lucky in not having any ruined by rain, but it will happen sooner or later.

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We got 5 cuttings this year, usually 4 is the norm.

Really enjoy the smell of a fresh cut field.

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I got 4 in Ohio one time. Usually it was three... sometimes it was only two. Congratulations!

I was working the base camp equipment area on a large forest fire in Happy Camp California around 2008 (IIRC). We had hired quite a few locals to help out. Many had horses or other livestock. Hay was $20 a bale that summer.

Small square bales. Hard to imagine.


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We finished 4th crop about 2+ weeks ago.. It was an average crop - not as good as 3rd crop..

Yesterday corn chopping was done by 2:30 pm.. Snapleage is next week.


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6 cuts here.


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Originally Posted by 5sdad
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Brings back nightmares. In west central Ks as a teenager in the 60 s, I picked up, hauled and stacked many thousand of the smaller square bales. Hard work and low pay.


Hated it with a passion!


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Hay making is a LOT, easier than it used to be!! Most all farm work is.


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Originally Posted by dale06
Brings back nightmares. In west central Ks as a teenager in the 60 s, I picked up, hauled and stacked many thousand of the smaller square bales. Hard work and low pay.



I got paid 3 cents a bale, and they fed us lunch..............small round bales, baled 'green and tight'. Timothy hay, not nice, clean alfalfa.


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I spent a long, hot, summer north of Spokane loading hay bales on a dairy farm. Alfalfa bales up there weigh 95 pounds. Two of us were putting 1,000 bales in the barn in one day.

Good God what a brutal job.

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