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[old]

I want to get hay done but where I live I have not had 3-4 days of no rain. 7:25 this morning there was a very loud thunder clap and been raining ever since. Yesterday morning it rained and we got 1.5 inches. Day before we got around 1/4 inch. I've put up all of 7 round bales so far this year. Hay mower broke down and I fixed it but ever since we have had rain every day or ever other day

 

[Steve in VA]

I want to get hay done but where I live I have not had 3-4 days of no rain. 7:25 this morning there was a very loud thunder clap and been raining ever since. Yesterday morning it rained and we got 1.5 inches. Day before we got around 1/4 inch. I've put up all of 7 round bales so far this year. Hay mower broke down and I fixed it but ever since we have had rain every day or ever other day

Across the road their talking about buying hay but in our case we've had no rain and everything is brown.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

I want to get hay done but where I live I have not had 3-4 days of no rain. 7:25 this morning there was a very loud thunder clap and been raining ever since. Yesterday morning it rained and we got 1.5 inches. Day before we got around 1/4 inch. I've put up all of 7 round bales so far this year. Hay mower broke down and I fixed it but ever since we have had rain every day or ever other day

We had a nice, dry window for about a week & the ground is just dry enough to cut. The wx guessers say a 20% chance of T-storms after 4 PM today. Radar says, it'll be an hour early. I says, I should have planted rice!! The next chance to cut will be Tues. or Wed, if we don't get too much rain by then.

Good luck on your haying! Hope the pattern breaks for you. We're all going to be seeing a change-up once La Niña kicks in.

Mike

 

[chcase]

We had a nice, dry window for about a week & the ground is just dry enough to cut. The wx guessers say a 20% chance of T-storms after 4 PM today. Radar says, it'll be an hour early. I says, I should have planted rice!! The next chance to cut will be Tues. or Wed, if we don't get too much rain by then.

Good luck on your haying! Hope the pattern breaks for you. We're all going to be seeing a change-up once La Niña kicks in.

Mike

Had the same issues around here. Local coop decided to wait to spray my beans as the weeds hadn" all gotten the height they wanted (using a contact spray) they came out yesterday and spray rig operator called my phone and said he could not spray 20 acres due to wet of ground. That's a first. They usually don't mind leaving some deep ruts. But driver said this thing will not get stuck. But in this case he was very worried. Never seen so much mud on his rig when he pulled out.

 

[Tgrasher]

At 3:45 this morning it started to rain, quit a little after 7:00, two inches that were not needed. A large red cloud just sat on top of my area. Was going to cut hay today, but I've learned to never knock a rain in July.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Had the same issues around here. Local coop decided to wait to spray my beans as the weeds hadn" all gotten the height they wanted (using a contact spray) they came out yesterday and spray rig operator called my phone and said he could not spray 20 acres due to wet of ground. That's a first. They usually don't mind leaving some deep ruts. But driver said this thing will not get stuck. But in this case he was very worried. Never seen so much mud on his rig when he pulled out.

Was it very dry by you these last couple years or was that further south? Everyone in the SW corner of the state are well out if drought & into surplus.

Do you do any hay & have you had to battle the rain, too?

Mike

 

[37chief]

Had the same issues around here. Local coop decided to wait to spray my beans as the weeds hadn" all gotten the height they wanted (using a contact spray) they came out yesterday and spray rig operator called my phone and said he could not spray 20 acres due to wet of ground. That's a first. They usually don't mind leaving some deep ruts. But driver said this thing will not get stuck. But in this case he was very worried. Never seen so much mud on his rig when he pulled out.

How do the beans not die from the spray? I don't think anything was sprayed in the 50's on the west coast. Dad's three sons would walk the rows with our hoes. I walked many miles (hoeing beans), as Dad would say. Stan

 

[300jk]

I want to get hay done but where I live I have not had 3-4 days of no rain. 7:25 this morning there was a very loud thunder clap and been raining ever since. Yesterday morning it rained and we got 1.5 inches. Day before we got around 1/4 inch. I've put up all of 7 round bales so far this year. Hay mower broke down and I fixed it but ever since we have had rain every day or ever other day

I just cut and tedded about 7 acres. Mid 80’s, sunny, and breezy. Way past maturity and think it may be ready tomorrow late. If not Monday but there is a 50 percent chance for rain Monday. We will see. We are behind also. 4 more acres at the farm and 15 or so at my brothers place.

 

[MARK ROBKE]

How do the beans not die from the spray? I don't think anything was sprayed in the 50's on the west coast. Dad's three sons would walk the rows with our hoes. I walked many miles (hoeing beans), as Dad would say. Stan

The soybean plant has been genetically modified to be resistant to certain/specific herbicides. Mark.

 

[Brownie450]

Be careful on getting hay baled when it's not quite dry
enough. The nephews had 4 bales on fire yesterday.
They got them isolated luckily, but are having to watch
the rest for danger signs. I've always thought they
shouldn't stack so many together. Old guys don't know
anything.
Jim

 

[old]

Be careful on getting hay baled when it's not quite dry
enough. The nephews had 4 bales on fire yesterday.
They got them isolated luckily, but are having to watch
the rest for danger signs. I've always thought they
shouldn't stack so many together. Old guys don't know
anything.
Jim

I understand that well but I have been baling hay where I live for the past 44 years now. I started with small squares but do rounds now

 

[mudcreek183]

I'm just the opposite we haven't had any rain , since the first week of June . We were suppose to get some from the hurricane, but it all were to the west of us. Corn is pretty much toast and early beans look like crap.

 

[old]

I'm just the opposite we haven't had any rain , since the first week of June . We were suppose to get some from the hurricane, but it all were to the west of us. Corn is pretty much toast and early beans look like crap.

Last year we where in a drought almost all summer and this year we are the opposite and been getting to much but at least it has been coming down in such a way we aren't flooding

 

[cjunrau]

I want to get hay done but where I live I have not had 3-4 days of no rain. 7:25 this morning there was a very loud thunder clap and been raining ever since. Yesterday morning it rained and we got 1.5 inches. Day before we got around 1/4 inch. I've put up all of 7 round bales so far this year. Hay mower broke down and I fixed it but ever since we have had rain every day or ever other day

You need to find someone with a wrapper and do them wet. No problem with rain then as you only need 2 days. Cut one day hot the next bale in the evening

 

[old]

You need to find someone with a wrapper and do them wet. No problem with rain then as you only need 2 days. Cut one day hot the next bale in the evening

Wrapper or a mower conditioner that crimps the hay as it is cut??

 

[john in la]

Sounds like a typical summer for us.

Guy up the road was cutting a field of Johnson grass this morning with this forecast.
He will make marshmallows out of it.

 

[KL in Wi]

Here it seems to rain almost constantly. If we get 3 days without rain it's a miracle. June was over 8 inches and July looks like it could be close. Can't see the rain gauge from the house but, I would say we probably had another 2 inches last night and this morning. The guys who did get some hay off have the fields totally rutted up. Fields of corn and beans have lakes in them. Bad planting season and now crops are drowning. Because of the bad planting season corn around here is anywhere from shoulder height to 3 inches tall. Beans are in the same condition. This is in East-central Wi.

 

[cjunrau]

Wrapper or a mower conditioner that crimps the hay as it is cut??

Wrapper to wrap wet silage bales. Makes higher quality hay. Something most dairies now do as they can bale 25-50% moisture and make high quality feed.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

I sold my bale wrapper when I quit milking cows, and only do a few hundred dry bales for my beef herd. It has been raining here way too often to make any good dry hay so far this year, so a side from one small field I did last week, I have just been waiting. Half of what I did bale this year is too wet to keep, but I am feeding it out. I also have a few acres of corn silage for my cattle. So if the hay gets a bit old waiting for decent weather that’s ok, the silage corn will help balance their nutrition requirements. And I will keep waiting on nice hay making weather. Next week looks good.

 

[Steve in VA]

Here it seems to rain almost constantly. If we get 3 days without rain it's a miracle. June was over 8 inches and July looks like it could be close. Can't see the rain gauge from the house but, I would say we probably had another 2 inches last night and this morning. The guys who did get some hay off have the fields totally rutted up. Fields of corn and beans have lakes in them. Bad planting season and now crops are drowning. Because of the bad planting season corn around here is anywhere from shoulder height to 3 inches tall. Beans are in the same condition. This is in East-central Wi.

Here in the Shenandoah we got 34% of our normal June rain and do far less than 25% for July.