It's HOT and DRY! What better time to go out and square bale! The 1st crop hay is ready to bale, and our newer seeding looks so nice, Alan, decided to square bale it. Paul went out with the 820 John Deere and the V Rake and by 1pm they were hooking up the Farmall 560 and New Idea 551 Square Baler. Now, because it's so hot, we decided to wait until it was cooler out to unload the wagons and put them up in the hay loft. The issue with that is we don't have enough hay baskets to hold all the hay and if we dumped the hay in front of the barn, well...the cows would eat it instead of going in to get milked. Alan's solution was to stack hay on one of the flat racks first and the rest would fit in the hay baskets. It was a great plan, until the Square Baler broke. It wasn't going to be a quick fix, so Alan decided to just round bale the hay instead. Our main Round Baler, the New Holland 853, had a cylinder being repaired, so we had to use our International Round Baler that we usually use for baleage bales. We put the 830 Case on the Round Baler and off we went. We got 3 fields baled in 2 days. The kids went to cool off in the Kettle River behind the farm, and we got our massive load of square bales up into the barn. Now, we are praying for rain, for us and everyone else who needs it!