Hay Making Experts said It Can't be Done

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3 ай бұрын

Please join us as we prepared for one of the last outing of the 2023 season! We actually struggled to make time to even mow this hay.
The follow up video is coming shortly!

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@FarmingInsider 3 ай бұрын

To our amazing fans, I was already falling behind on videos and to make matters worse, I was playing a basketball game and ruptured my knee quite badly right around New Year. I’ve been on crutches for nearly 10 weeks and that doesn’t make for great content. I don’t think you guys came to this channel to watch me learn to walk again lol. Please enjoy some of this content from last year. I am on the mend and ready to start following the guys around with the camera soon. Thank you 😊

@adrienlindmann7433 3 ай бұрын

Good luck 👍

@jamiewebb8633 3 ай бұрын

It has been such a long gap I kind of wondered if something bad happened. I guess you haven’t had to carry any bales lately.

@hammerhayllc 3 ай бұрын

Get better my guy !

@Pigpen1202 3 ай бұрын

I hope you heal quick. I broke my hip last year and am still doing a lot of physical therapy Good luck

@Asphyxiationstation 3 ай бұрын

Ouch! Get well soon!

@phil-bay-of-plenty-nz 3 ай бұрын

you should use curtain body trailers to cart your hay out of the paddocks. no strapping, less than 5 minutes to close the curtains and if their is rain/showers the hay gets under cover fast. loading/ unloading is simple.

@Berend-ov8of 3 ай бұрын

When I was your age, I hauled small bales by hand straight off the field seven high onto a rugged old longnose Scania all day. I remember laying on top of the hay completely powered out as the truck rolled off the field, happy as a clam. Long hours, hard work, lousy pay, but zero stress. I absolutely loved it. You make a lot more money, but I don't see you enjoy working as much as we did, and you got a lot more to worry about. It makes me wonder which way is best.

@FarmingInsider 3 ай бұрын

We will love what we do. Most of the worries we have are self-inflicted and we know that. We could do less and not try as hard and relax a little more but what’s the fun in that? Haha it’s all preference I suppose

@Berend-ov8of 3 ай бұрын

@@FarmingInsider You couldn't be more right. Hey makes happy, no matter what.

@kennethheern4896 3 ай бұрын

Twenty bales is twenty bales, better than nothing. Our late cutting OG doesn’t make a lot, but gives us a few more to sell. I don’t like running out for my customers. Last year we ran out quick (December), it turned out working pretty well. A few of our customers had to purchase hay elsewhere. They found out our prices and hay was better than they thought. This year they’re making sure they get their hay.

@frankscruggs4749 3 ай бұрын

Good video.

@southtexashay777 3 ай бұрын

Our winter grass hay is the best. dry's really green in color and smells and looks great. I was baling grass hay January 1, 2024. Looks good.

@FarmingInsider 3 ай бұрын

Dang! So you guys really never stop! New Years hay

@southtexashay777 3 ай бұрын

I'm at a stop now. Cant get irrigation water and in our area of South Texas we are still in a bad drought.@@FarmingInsider

@danrose3233 3 ай бұрын

I had a new one happen this year baling last season coastal Bermuda in East TX. It had a little frost damage (20%). We baled rounds with the monitor showing 14-16% moisture. We followed this with making some squares. A couple months in the barn after baling and a customer found mold in a bale which seemed odd. I probed the bales and most were 19-21% and they all had a slight tinge of mold smell. The squares also had a light white dusty mold and had the same moisture. The last 100 squares something went wacky with the tension and they were a little light/loose. These dried out ok. The equipment dealer said they had never heard of such a scenario. A hay broker said he had another producer that encountered the same deal. Anyone else ever have this happen? My only thought is that the freeze damage plant matter would have been very dry

@kennethheern4896 3 ай бұрын

Probably something like do with lack of air flow during it’s sweat period. If it was stored in a barn with all the doors closed. Also, using mechanical equipment to put up hay, stacks squares tigger than you could ever do by hand. Just a thought. Some of the best hay I ever made was mid November, temp in the twenties. That was before I had a cab tractor, it was cold. It was alfalfa.

@danrose3233 3 ай бұрын

@@kennethheern4896 Thanks for the ideas. It is not due to stacking in a barn as they have open ends with adequate air flow. Somehow there was more moisture in part of the hay going in the bale even though the bale monitor thought it was ok. Yet this scenario happens all the time without a problem. For example stems (maybe 18%) will have more moisture than leaves (maybe 14%) and you end up with a 16% bale with no moisture issues even though the stems are a little high. My guess is that in this case it was probably more extreme stems 22%, (green) leaves 14%, and frost damage (brown) leaves 6% would yield about 15% on average. When I check hay manually prior to baling I always observe the moisture in the stems. Now I'm thinking I need to do an experiment and separate leaves from stems at some point to measure the actual difference in moisture.