Hay 2024

Question is will is hold dry until Sunday evening as forecasts are showing drizzle and light showers for both Saturday and Sunday.

This weather is a bloody disaster.

dirty mist this morning, but looks like its brightning out now. Weather isn't great but I can't control it.

Turned again. Lovely breeze sun started break thru, but cloudy again . Like minor league middle of meadows are nearly there. I have one meadow that won't make the cut by Sunday so will wrap it instead, it's just too grassy. Still taking it day by day as to whether we will have hay or not

Yeap nearly there, today is a great day on hay, serious strenght in that Sun along with a breeze. I have it all rowed up now for baling this evening. I dont think I'll have a major amount of bales in the 7 acres, I'm thinking about 40

Not bad for a few hours work though

Same as that here - heavy drizzle this morning and a cracker of a day now so don't know what to do. Head says to wrap it this evening but the optimist says give it a turn today when top dries and see how it is tomorrow.

Just thinking like others have said if I do have to wrap the earlier the better so hard to know

Baled and wrapped some attempted hay for a friend today after wrapping up some silage for myself. Great few days but would have needed a few more to get hay and Monday looks to be a washout.

I'd rather have left it till tomorrow too but was just too afraid of it getting wet again to leave it.

I'll be sickened if tomorrow turns out a good day now but that's the way it goes.

Still have't baled yet, contractor had a breakdown, in fairess he did offer to get another lad to bale it late yesterday evening but I said we'd chance it till this afternoon. The day looks ok, it might brighten out later on, but at least the rain isn't on the forcast now. This morning is the first morning that we didn't have that dirty mist either.

Got 25 round bales made there this evening. It was still a bit green but tomorrow is been given as a pure washout round here. It was ment for silage light meadow and dired out quickly so turned it Friday and yesterday. Will leave it to season for two weeks before putting it in the shed

There's 4 bales over in a shaded corner I expect to heat a bit, I'd say it could heat today if the rain doesn't come. I only baled yesterday cos today was given so bad round here and now this morning that's changed again

240 Square bales + 8 Round bales made on Sunday afternoon, mowed Thursday afternoon, tedded 6 times! No rain thankfully but only for Saturday been a nice warm, sunny day here, i would have been wrapping it. Square baler broke down so had to go for the round baler to finish it off. Delighted to have got it. If anyone knows of a good mechanic for New Holland Square balers in the NW / Midlands area, can ye let me know, would be great to get the baler repaired again and also a once over service.

Thanks, thankfully i have the 4 rotor tedder which speeds up the tedding process and makes it more bearable and allowed me to ted it out on my lunch break and again in the evening fairly quickly. Thursday and Friday were warm days with moderate sunshine and a nice breeze blowing through the meadows and i could see the difference each time i tedded it out. Saturday was a good bit warmer and very sunny which really was the deal breaker when it came to getting hay out of it. I was just taking it day by day to see how it faired out.

Looks like there’ll be no straw chopping scheme this year.

Krone Vendro 560

Cut 4 acres of an ungrazed field last Wednesday. Rained every day since, till today. Might try first kick tomorrow and see what it does. Should be rightly won on top at this stage.