Category: haying
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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…
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Bounce Around the Mind
It's one of those damn things that nothing works out the way you want. All the rain this spring was great, nut the thing I feared is coming true. It is turning hot and dry and the fire danger is going up very fast around here. I know I am still haying but a rainstorm…
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Busy
I have been real busy lately, but productive. We have wrapped strings around about 400 tons of hay so far and we're not quite half done yet. Going to have to take the morning today to overhaul the swather. I noticed a broken frame member when we started but decided to keep going till it…
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Second Cutting
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Poison
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Hay Loss
After I had finished haying I turned in my production numbers to the Insurance agent for our crop production records. I never gave much thought to the situation. I had other things I was doing. Yesterday an Insurance adjuster came out to settle with me on the hay loss.<br />n<br />nI had enough of a…
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Standing
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/stand07012006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/stand07012006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Here is the hay stacking machine standing up a stack. The bales are 3x3x8 and they make a very impressive stack when done. Taken 7/1/2006.</center><br />n<br />n.
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Stacking
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/stack07012006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/stack07012006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Over the weekend the guys I hired to do the stacking showed up and got the hay stacked for us. Pretty impressive machines they used. Taken 7/1/2006.</center>
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Dry
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/27/news/state/70-crops.txt">Some crops showing signs of too-dry soil</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Soil moisture took a dive last week and crops in parts of the state were showing signs of stress, as warm, dry conditions were felt across the state, a federal agriculture report shows.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI won't argue with any of this one bit, it's damn dry…
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Strange Sight
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/strange06122006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/strange06122006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Finally was able to bale again after the big storm. These big bales laying out in the field are a really strange sight to me when I am used to seeing small ones. It takes some getting used to. Otherwise the new baler is working…