Hay been cut…

[blitznbobs]

Getting baled this evening …

Dusting off the back protector cos gallopy time tomorrow so exited I feel about 8 years old!!

 

[canteron]

Did you get a reasonable crop? My contractor said he was getting 2 bales whereas last year he got 10!

Have a fab time and enjoy your gallops!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Enjoy your gallopy time!

Back in the mists of time we would make illicit jumps out the small square bales and have a whale of a time!

 

[teacups]

That sounds lovely. Enjoy!
Our ground is rock hard and cracked due to lack of rain.

 

[cindars]

Hay crop down here has been very good,silage good as well

 

[blitznbobs]

Im watching them wrap as we speak it’s not the best crop we have ever had but we don’t normally hay this particular field … stood here trying to count I think we will get about 60 x 5ft hestons which is enough for our horses so I will be happy with that …

Just love seeing it wrapped cos
I breathe a sigh of relief

Eta 76 bales off 8 acres … that’s quite good actually

 

[spotty_pony2]

Ours is being cut this week coming (well part of of it, the rest later on in the summer) will be nice to be able to ride on the fields a bit more - our bottom field holds the water really well so ground should be about perfect underneath it when it’s first cut

 

[minesadouble]

Did you get a reasonable crop? My contractor said he was getting 2 bales whereas last year he got 10!

Have a fab time and enjoy your gallops!

Our hay crops are light too. The lack of rain has a lot to answer for!

 

[scats]

They took an early cut off ours, but it’s ready for another now. Sparse in places though. The dry weather has really had an impact.

 

[Lucky Snowball]

I’m waiting until a bit later in the hope of more grass.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

Getting baled this evening …

Dusting off the back protector cos gallopy time tomorrow so exited I feel about 8 years old!!

Sounds fab!! Ground here like concrete so no fast work here! Enjoy!

 

[Flowerofthefen]

We thought our hay yield was down this year. Fortunately we made exactly thd same number of bales as last year!!

 

[MidChristmasCrisis]

We ve got 23 bales from first cut from the land that got us 140 ish last year over 2 cuts. Not looking great

 

[Shooting Star]

Think the cut from the hay fields at our yard was nearly 60 big bales short of last year - that’s a big difference from around 50 acres

 

[Indy]

One of our fields, last year we got 135 round bales, this year we got 60. This is off a 12 acre field

 

[rabatsa]

When the contractor baled ours he was telling us that his last job managed 38 bales off 22 acres. He got 46 bales off our 7 acres.

 

[Asha]

Our crop this year is down as well. I reckon weve got about 30 large bales., we usually get around 60. Had a neighbour offer me their field too, but the contractor couldnt get in as the access is awful.
Husband has just bought 20 from one of our customers. For the first time ever, im trying to get a 2nd cut. Then we are seeding the lot.
Unless we get some rain for a good second cut, there could well be a shortage.
I buy some in every year from a local supplier. Theyve emailed asking us to reserve some from this years crops as they want to make sure they look after existing customers before taking on new ones. So ive just reserved another 40 x 4 string.

 

[rabatsa]

My farmer who supplies barley straw for feeding has just told me that he will not have any this year. No winter barley made it and the spring barley he has sown is some environmental thing and not for harvesting.

 

[MissMoo]

We have small bales off our field, last year was 288, it was cut yesterday and looking at what's on the ground we will be lucky to get 70 bales..........