Hay 2021

Sacrolyte

A little bit of rain on a cut crop of hay helps keep it a little less dusty.

Reggie.

Tileman wrote: »

We haven’t had a drop of rain here in past 5-6 days. Lovely warm breeze and weather is good at weekend. Anyone that cut last weekend will get it here no prob.

Yeah 7 acres here gonna be baled up sat

Reggie.

Bale this up tomorrow

Reggie.

First 7 acres baled. The other 3 acres tomorrow

johnnyw20

Reggie. wrote: »

First 7 acres baled. The other 3 acres tomorrow

How many days was that down? Going baling some myself Monday evening

Reggie.

johnnyw20 wrote: »

How many days was that down? Going baling some myself Monday evening

Down since late last sat so really 6 days. Turned 3 times

893bet

Might be a hay window from this Friday on I think. Forecast is good. We have a bit I will chance.

Midwest area.

Sami23

893bet wrote: »

Might be a hay window from this Friday on I think. Forecast is good. We have a bit I will chance.

Midwest area.

Yes it's looking that way alright isn't it.
Will you cut before Friday and let it wilt away even if gets a bit of rain or will ya hold off cutting till Friday or Saturday

893bet

Sami23 wrote: »

Yes it's looking that way alright isn't it.
Will you cut before Friday and let it wilt away even if gets a bit of rain or will ya hold off cutting till Friday or Saturday

Would like to but only window I have between day job and family is Friday afternoon/evening.

Just looked at a correct weather site and they have 50-60 percent chance rain every day....! Strange! Gonna ignore that one...!

Too_Old_Boots

Looking at the bbc long range forecast today till tomorrow morning will see some mist and patchy rain it's promised good from Thursday onwards, getting hot from Sunday to Wednesday.
(Hay fever now hitting a lot of farmers by the end of the week :P)

Tileman

Too_Old_Boots wrote: »

Looking at the bbc long range forecast today till tomorrow morning will see some mist and patchy rain it's promised good from Thursday onwards, getting hot from Sunday to Wednesday.
(Hay fever now hitting a lot of farmers by the end of the week :P)

Unfortunately mine is in Glas which doesn’t permit until 1st July which is next Thursday .

2smiggy

father cut about 30 acres yesterday. north cork area, so here's hoping for the best !!

let the fun begin

Who2

2smiggy wrote: »

father cut about 30 acres yesterday. north cork area, so here's hoping for the best !!

let the fun begin

Once it’s not small squares it shouldn’t be too bad.

2smiggy

Who2 wrote: »

Once it’s not small squares it shouldn’t be too bad.

it's just 3 handy fields, so all should be good. all our own gear, so not relying on anyone else !!

J.O. Farmer

2smiggy wrote: »

it's just 3 handy fields, so all should be good. all our own gear, so not relying on anyone else !!

3 handy fields?

Up west 30 acres could be bigger than an entire farm and more than that a 10 acre field is a fair sized field.

Just goes to show the difference in land across the country.

Best of luck with it, I presume you have good gear otherwise it could take all week to do 1 field.

2smiggy

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

3 handy fields?

Up west 30 acres could be bigger than an entire farm and more than that a 10 acre field is a fair sized field.

Just goes to show the difference in land across the country.

Best of luck with it, I presume you have good gear otherwise it could take all week to do 1 field.

meant it in a way that the fields are fairly easy as they not 10 smaller fields !!

Ya have fairly good gear. This is a bit of a relief, as he grazed a lot more this year, and made more round bales of silage. He would often cut 60 acres together for hay !!

White Clover

2smiggy wrote: »

meant it in a way that the fields are fairly easy as they not 10 smaller fields !!

Ya have fairly good gear. This is a bit of a relief, as he grazed a lot more this year, and made more round bales of silage. He would often cut 60 acres together for hay !!

Fair play, out of interest, could you give us a run through the gear. I'm always interested in farming fleets!
I understand if you don't want to.

2smiggy

White Clover wrote: »

Fair play, out of interest, could you give us a run through the gear. I'm always interested in farming fleets!
I understand if you don't want to.

John deere 6910
john deere 6820
Kuhn 10 ft mower
lotus 600 4 rotor tedder
hay bob
mchale 5500 baler

it does fine for what we need to do. sometimes neighbours with balers join in if the weather dictates, and vise versa !!

White Clover

2smiggy wrote: »

John deere 6910
john deere 6820
Kuhn 10 ft mower
lotus 600 4 rotor tedder
hay bob
mchale 5500 baler

it does fine for what we need to do. sometimes neighbours with balers join in if the weather dictates, and vise versa !!

That's a fine set up. Fair play to ye.

JohnChadwick

Tileman wrote: »

Unfortunately mine is in Glas which doesn’t permit until 1st July which is next Thursday .

Can you cut LIPP in GLAS? Does it have to be hay, or is silage OK?

Mitchells33

Weather looking good from Sunday onwards, hoping to knock some on Saturday or Sunday, anyone else going for it?

Sami23

Mitchells33 wrote: »

Weather looking good from Sunday onwards, hoping to knock some on Saturday or Sunday, anyone else going for it?

Yeah gonna knock a couple of fields here as soon as weather permits after today's rain.
Wonder how far into next week we'll get ?

DBK1

JohnChadwick wrote: »

Can you cut LIPP in GLAS? Does it have to be hay, or is silage OK?

LIPP is Low Input Permanent Pasture. The key is in the name, permanent pasture. It can’t be mowed for hay or silage at any time of the year. You are permitted to top it after the 1st July.

Traditional hay meadow can be mowed after 1st July. Ideally it’s supposed to be for hay but most around here bale it and wrap it.

JohnChadwick

DBK1 wrote: »

LIPP is Low Input Permanent Pasture. The key is in the name, permanent pasture. It can’t be mowed for hay or silage at any time of the year. You are permitted to top it after the 1st July.

What's the penalty if you are caught cutting it for hay/silage?

Mitchells33

Sami23 wrote: »

Yeah gonna knock a couple of fields here as soon as weather permits after today's rain.
Wonder how far into next week we'll get ?

It is hard to figure out, weather forecast changes every hour, I am hoping we get till next Wednesday anyway

Asus1

Mitchells33 wrote: »

Weather looking good from Sunday onwards, hoping to knock some on Saturday or Sunday, anyone else going for it?

Hopefully knock around 10acres this evening or tomorrow here in Kildare.Grass has gotten fierce heavy over a 2 week period and the bit of rain we got has some of the grass lodging so it has to be cut.
Looking good around Midlands till next week so hopefully will get good hay.

Too_Old_Boots

JohnChadwick wrote: »

What's the penalty if you are caught cutting it for hay/silage?

They can fine you the amount the option is worth right up to kicking you out of the scheme and looking for all the payments to be repaid.
Never heard of anyone getting caught, but they were supposed to be moving to full satellite monitoring soon but idk if the software AI is in place yet.

Sami23

Tileman wrote: »

Unfortunately mine is in Glas which doesn’t permit until 1st July which is next Thursday .

Wonder do many lads chance it a few days early when the weather is there to get hay

BENDYBINN

Question for the experts...A field that produces 50 silage bales(baled after 2days down) will produce how many hay bales?

Sami23

BENDYBINN wrote: »

Question for the experts...A field that produces 50 silage bales(baled after 2days down) will produce how many hay bales?

I'd guess 40