Did a little hay last week ...

[blueriver]

If everyone is like us we havent made what we needed in cple years now so had to buy and still didnt get enough to have some extra to carry over at $100bale. I have two places 40 miles apart this week had 6in. at one and 1/4in.at other and pastures havent fully recovered yet from last year so if rain stops pastures not going to hold up much longer,so may have to start feeding Hay end of August. I guess knowbody wonts to get in a bind like last year.

Hey Todd I poured the 3/10's out then got another 1in. in gauge before I left leona,then they texted me was raining again an hr later,may need to run up to the JD dealer

Thats nice when the dealer throws rain in on the purchase of a new tractor !!!

I had folks drive in from Colorado yesterday and bought every round bale I had left and will send the semi's the upcoming week to haul it out ... according to them absoulutly no hay to be had in there area.

 

[Bob Ha]

I had folks drive in from Colorado yesterday and bought every round bale I had left and will send the semi's the upcoming week to haul it out ... according to them absoulutly no hay to be had in there area.

I've had people from Arkansas get some last week. I think they are stockpiling it expecting the drought to get much worst.

 

[blueriver]

I've had people from Arkansas get some last week. I think they are stockpiling it expecting the drought to get much worst.

I believe its going to get that way ... the ground is really dry and along with the heat and wind any moisture we have is being pulled out. I've noticed some ads on DFW CL selling Arkansas cattle ... some area's of Texas are getting ample rain. Another thread on TBN has an interesting map of the drought.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well I finally got the father-in-law to buy a tractor,so he isnt tearing my new one up in the brush,he picked up a nice 2000 Mahindra 5005DI with loader:thumbsup: I drove it around more than my new one Now I have to convert it over to quickattach so he can use my stuff.I thought about trying to build one but I may just buy one, figure it would be cheaper than him messing something up on mine and having to fix it. My co-worker went up to look at Kubota's and said they already sold my old 5040,he ended up getting a 5140 but said he couldnt have got my old anyways with Kubota finance.

Glad yall having a good hay year:thumbsup:We know who's making all the money in here
I start cutting next thursday,hope to get a few photos,may even try the square baler out to see what she will do.....

 

[Bob Ha]

I had folks drive in from Colorado yesterday and bought every round bale I had left and will send the semi's the upcoming week to haul it out ... according to them absoulutly no hay to be had in there area.

A guy from Colorado is coming this weekend to get some hay. He said he buys and resale's for $280 a ton. He's making more than I am on the bales but he does have to drive 500 miles each way.

 

[blueriver]

A guy from Colorado is coming this weekend to get some hay. He said he buys and resale's for $280 a ton. He's making more than I am on the bales but he does have to drive 500 miles each way.

I sold my rounds for $60 ... can get 34 on a 53' step deck and its right at $2600 from here to the final destination in CO. ... by the time he gets it thats about $136 a bale and I believe them to be 1000 lb bales and that puts it at about $272 a ton ... turns into expensive hay. My buyer also stated when he drove down here he stopped at more farms than mine ... I was the last stop. When he got out of the truck he stated "Hope you have some green hay to show me" ... he stuck his hand in and when he pulled it out he says "Man I could hug you ...Thats the first good hay I've seen" ... took him to a couple fields and showed him more ... he bought every round bale I had left and stated if I cut more he'll take them as well ... problem is HEAT, WIND, NO RAIN .... no hay.

 

[Bob Ha]

I sold my rounds for $60 ... can get 34 on a 53' step deck and its right at $2600 from here to the final destination in CO. ... by the time he gets it thats about $136 a bale and I believe them to be 1000 lb bales and that puts it at about $272 a ton ... turns into expensive hay. My buyer also stated when he drove down here he stopped at more farms than mine ... I was the last stop. When he got out of the truck he stated "Hope you have some green hay to show me" ... he stuck his hand in and when he pulled it out he says "Man I could hug you ...Thats the first good hay I've seen" ... took him to a couple fields and showed him more ... he bought every round bale I had left and stated if I cut more he'll take them as well ... problem is HEAT, WIND, NO RAIN .... no hay.

The guy from Colorado was a no show for us. We sold our last 60 bales to someone in the Texas panhandle. We still have a few fields to cut but the quality is not the best (sandburs). We may also get another cut before hay season ends. Depends on the rains!

 

[Bob Ha]

I sold my rounds for $60 ... can get 34 on a 53' step deck and its right at $2600 from here to the final destination in CO. ... by the time he gets it thats about $136 a bale and I believe them to be 1000 lb bales and that puts it at about $272 a ton ... turns into expensive hay. My buyer also stated when he drove down here he stopped at more farms than mine ... I was the last stop. When he got out of the truck he stated "Hope you have some green hay to show me" ... he stuck his hand in and when he pulled it out he says "Man I could hug you ...Thats the first good hay I've seen" ... took him to a couple fields and showed him more ... he bought every round bale I had left and stated if I cut more he'll take them as well ... problem is HEAT, WIND, NO RAIN .... no hay.

The guy from Colorado was a no show for us. We sold our last 60 bales to someone in the Texas panhandle. We still have a few fields to cut but the quality is not the best (sandburs). We may also get another cut before hay season ends. Depends on the rains!

 

[blueriver]

The guy from Colorado was a no show for us. We sold our last 60 bales to someone in the Texas panhandle. We still have a few fields to cut but the quality is not the best (sandburs). We may also get another cut before hay season ends. Depends on the rains!

Don't you just love a no-show !!! Another 53' step deck is scheduled for Saturday morning. Other than the homeplace where I am irrigating everything else is suffering from heat and lack of rain ... I'm in the thinking process of adding a liquid fertilizer application to my irrigation reel ... I need to add the fertilize/weed spray on the next irrigation run.

 

[MotorSeven]

Wow, we are very fortunate. After that heat wave a month or so ago it started raining. First a few days of soaking rain, then "maintenance rain" an hour or so almost every day for the last month. We usually get 3 cuttings a year, but the third is already ready to cut, so a fourth is a real possibility. I am seeing a foot of growth every two weeks. What a great season to have a broken baler:thumbsdown:

 

[blueriver]

Wow, we are very fortunate. After that heat wave a month or so ago it started raining. First a few days of soaking rain, then "maintenance rain" an hour or so almost every day for the last month. We usually get 3 cuttings a year, but the third is already ready to cut, so a fourth is a real possibility. I am seeing a foot of growth every two weeks. What a great season to have a broken baler:thumbsdown:

Thats fantastic ... not the baler ... the rain. I would love to have more to cut.

 

[Bob Ha]

We got 6 tenths of rain Firday. Cut our last fields today and already sold before we could even finish baling.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well finally got done baling ended up with 66rolls and 160 square bales. The 7040 had a time pulling the baler up some of the hills over there was in 3low and 4x4 to get up and had issue with net not tieing think it was the cheap net...

the 2grand baler worked great busted first 5 bales,done alittle adjusting and ran like a champ. The father-in-law pulling it with the Mahindra he just picked up,while we finished up round baling,wife didnt get any pictures of us dang it....

 

[pacerron]

Thats fantastic ... not the baler ... the rain. I would love to have more to cut.

Have you guys been plagued by high nitrate values in drought stressed hay and corn silage when it is harvested soon after a rain?
The high nitrates are poisonous to livestock. A lot of corn up here that isn't going to produce many ears because of the drought
has been, or is planned to be cut early as silage, but the warnings are going out to test it for high nitrate levels. Other states are doing the same.
Test forage before cutting to avoid nitrate toxicity challenges — Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

http://www.greenwood.ksu.edu/p.aspx?tabid=54

Ron

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well I jacked up a gathering wheel just the rubber part missing two teeth skip a few then another,I done it when un-loading and boy was I disappointed:duh: in myself it was dark I just figured it was going to clear like usual. Should I buy a new one or just run it like is,looks like next year when I haul it just take them off and then put back on when get unloaded. To buy or not to buy is the question?

 

[blueriver]

Have you guys been plagued by high nitrate values in drought stressed hay and corn silage when it is harvested soon after a rain?
The high nitrates are poisonous to livestock. A lot of corn up here that isn't going to produce many ears because of the drought
has been, or is planned to be cut early as silage, but the warnings are going out to test it for high nitrate levels. Other states are doing the same.
Test forage before cutting to avoid nitrate toxicity challenges — Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Greenwood County - Crops and Livestock>Agriculture Alerts

Ron

I have not .. of course I don't do either hay or corn silage. When the drought plays it toll I don't even have any thing to bale. Thats a good article.

 

[blueriver]

Well I jacked up a gathering wheel just the rubber part missing two teeth skip a few then another,I done it when un-loading and boy was I disappointed:duh: in myself it was dark I just figured it was going to clear like usual. Should I buy a new one or just run it like is,looks like next year when I haul it just take them off and then put back on when get unloaded. To buy or not to buy is the question?

Well thats your call ... I always like to replace things as needed that way its always ready.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well thats your call ... I always like to replace things as needed that way its always ready.

I was just wondering if it would affect it,to were they wouldnt work..

 

[pacerron]

I have not .. of course I don't do either hay or corn silage. When the drought plays it toll I don't even have any thing to bale. Thats a good article.

I was thinking you did some millet hay this year and somebody on this thread was doing Johnson Grass hay.

 

[blueriver]

I was thinking you did some millet hay this year and somebody on this thread was doing Johnson Grass hay.

Yes I did some Pearl Millet ... first cut was good and then no rain and its as brown as a short cut lawn!!!