Hay 2023

At least 10 days apparently

Plus 1 with the schemes and money. But its greater freedom and a cleaner farm.

THe Organics cheque is a lot heftier and yes this sounds mad but less restrictive than the new Acres scheme

unfortunately you are one of the 0.01%, most who did the scheme gamed it by grazing later then just taking silage out without trying for Hay, no satellite monitoring of fields in Glas so it was a free for all. There was feck all bio diversity in those fields of heavy grass silage.

That's all change now in the new Acres scheme as the eye in the Sky is monitoring and recording

In NW and usually buy in good small square bales from up the country for sheep in the Winter.

Presume there is a lot of good quality hay getting saved at the moment?……although 80% of it will be in big square bales or round bales.

Yea same here. Most lads meadows including most of mine are too light to take out at moment. What is being made is fantastic stuff but being baked in round bales from what I can see

Made 180 square bales this afternoon. Left a bit when making silage bales last week. Handy to have for a sick animal or a few out lyers. In the shed now, they were grand and light to handle.

First load of 2023 hay home this evening

Turn it. I bet you a fiver it isn’t you won’t know by looking at it undesturbed

Can’t see there being that high of demand for hay as plenty of hay made in the good weather

We got our stuff baled yesterday afternoon and it's nice and soft and green. 93 bales from about 14 acres that go no slurry or fertilizer as the ground was too wet to travel. The contractor is bailing my grandparents place at the moment and I hoping for about 80+ bales off it.

I'd be afraid to stack hay for a few weeks, not to mind stuff made this early.

Have it in the shed. Baled last Thursday down for a week. Put in the shed on Tuesday. When it was so dry it's a shame to leave it out. Probably the best hay got around in a long time. If you had a small number of bales a good job is leave them loose in a slatted shed, on the passage way or on slats.

Put hay into shed last night, we noticed one of the bales a bit different to the others so left it to one side until we finished. We opened it up and it looked like it was the first bale out of the baler and had almost half a bale of grass in the middle of it and it roasting hot. Just as well we spotted it or I'd imagine if it was stacked in the middle of the pile it could have set the lot on fire. Dopey c##t that baled that would want a good kick in the hole.

I'm that situation my baler man would wrap the 1st bale