Category: hay

  • Look up

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/hay03072008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/hay03072008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The hay piles have really lasted well this winter. This perspective looking up at the clouds caught my eye the other day. Taken 3/7/2008.</center>

  • Enjoy

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/calves01272008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/calves01272008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some of the yearling replacement heifers enjoying their breakfast. Taken 1/27/2008.</center>

  • Load

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/load01302008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/load01302008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>One of the two loads of hay I feed every day. Busted a spring on this trailer the other day. Luckily I had the parts to fix it. Taken 1/30/2008.</center>

  • Fine

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/hay01142008?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/hay01142008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Somebody put up some damn fine looking hay last summer. Oh yea, that's right, it was me. The cows are really loving it. Taken 1/14/2008.</center>

  • Cavvy

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/horses01062007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/horses01062007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cavvy enjoying their hay. Taken 1/6/2008.</center>

  • FIgured It Out

    I always love when i read articles that tell me how to do things in the ranch business that I have all ready figured out. <a href="http://beefmagazine.com/cowcalfweekly/consider-grass-alfalfa-mixture/">This one</a> is telling me that I might want to consider grass/alfalfa mixture for hay ground instead of straight alfalfa. <br />n<br />nIt's kind of funny to me because…

  • A Wee Bit Wet

    Somebody put up their <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/28/news/state/47-helena.txt">hay too wet</a>. You do that and spontaneous combustion can ruin your day, and your haystack.<br />n<br />n<strong>The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Isaac Rubin</strong>

  • Finished

    Well, I am completely done, done, done, as my son says, baling first cutting hay. A thunderstorm Saturday night kept me from finishing the last little bit Sunday but I managed to get it yesterday. I got around 1350 tons of hay off around 750 acres. Pretty good for dryland hay. I left a little…

  • Baler

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/baler07022007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/baler07022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The tractor and baler. This is only my second season using this big baler and I am still getting used to it. It's quite the outfit. Taken 7/2/2007.</center>

  • Hay

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/bales07022007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/bales07022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I finished baling the last of the alfalfa on the Sarpy side yesterday. Fifteen hundred and thirty four bales of hay. Just over 2 ton to the acre. I'm very happy about that. You can't really see it all well…