Baling the first hay of 2023!

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  • Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2024

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  • @southtexashay777
    @southtexashay777 Год назад +1

    Looks good and green for Hay. Only you and the weather know when to cut and bale. good luck.

  • @niallcasey2057
    @niallcasey2057 Год назад +2

    Nice hay. More important, I love the patina on your machinery. I had a mf 165 and an mf 20 bailer as my first equipment. In Ireland many years ago . Thank you for the memories that are flooding back 👍

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад +1

      Hey there, thanks so much! Glad to hear of that connection, the 165 is a dear favorite of mine. (I’ve never used a 20 baler, but did use a #3 and have seen some #12’s - I know the whole lineage up through mine have a lot of similarities. Definitely love the MF combo too.
      Thanks for tuning in! Glad to share it with others 😊

  • @JimHerman-o3q
    @JimHerman-o3q 10 месяцев назад +1

    Cut. rake wrap it the same day ! Takes the weather out of it ! Been wrapping hay now for 15 years..... wet or dry....I wrap it ! Cheap and good hay !

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  10 месяцев назад

      Hi there! Not much of a market around here for baleage - plenty of folks make it for their own herds, and some sell excess, but trying to sell it as a main product is a very different sliver of the market, unfortunately. Crunching the numbers to tool my operation up for it and then making less $ per acre (around here) doesn’t really pencil out - but that’s okay, I like the challenge of the dry hay game (even when it makes me crazy 😉)
      Where abouts do you farm? Glad to hear you have a system to beat the weather!Thanks for tuning in!

  • @stuckinthepast300
    @stuckinthepast300 Год назад +1

    I do the bite test too!
    Looking for no chew and all crunch! Haha,
    Love the operation!
    That wind can be a pain, I've seen people put a tractor and rake right in front of the baler in the past,
    Looks like you had a great window though, got it done right!

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад +1

      Haha, thanks!! Glad I’m not alone in my haying eccentricity 😂. Appreciated!

  • @nicklambing9268
    @nicklambing9268 Год назад +1

    Beautiful looking hay from my view on this end. We usually deal with a lot of dew at night and that is murder on bleaching. Later in the summer dew isn't usually such a problem. With good tedder rack usage we shoot for a three day cycle most of the time, sometimes four days when the humidity is higher. Nicely done! Nick North West Farmer (Oregon)

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      Thanks so much! Same here on lots of dew - New England has often wet ground and very heavy dews too (though would be curious if there's a metric to compare). Interestingly I've never noticed that as a bleaching problem - are you doing all grass hays too, or alfalfa/mixes? I don't have any experience with alfalfa, but I feel like just gently working the grass to keep the dry-down even has helped me a lot. I'm with you on 3 days being the norm, that'll hopefully kick into gear in June once the temps go up a bit and the nights stop being so chilly. And yeah, humidity sure changes everything...
      Thanks for tuning in! Looking forward to seeing if you ever want to share your slice of haymaking. Good luck with the season!

  • @andykindberg8422
    @andykindberg8422 Год назад +1

    Enjoyed your video learned a lot About bailing hay thank you

  • @southtexashay777
    @southtexashay777 Год назад +2

    Cold weather will suck the moister better and your hay will stay green in color.

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад +1

      Thanks!! And I agree, very little bleaching in this despite being out for almost 5 days. We actually got patchy frost the night before baling. Hope you are well!

    • @southtexashay777
      @southtexashay777 Год назад +1

      @@windrowfarm We are good Irrigared and Fertilize the Tifton 85 and it looking good. Had a bunch of fary rings. I think its to much uria.

  • @HumbleHaymakers
    @HumbleHaymakers Год назад +1

    Hay looks great! Ought to fetch a good price with that color...👍

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      Thanks! I do price a little higher for the early stuff, but folks definitely want it

  • @DennysCountryLife
    @DennysCountryLife Год назад +1

    I love that series of MF tractors. I've always wanted one. I have the MF 128 baler, and it's been fantastic. What a great machine. Hope it's a good hay season for you.

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад +1

      Hey there! I remember seeing your 128 in your videos - I agree, I absolutely love that series. Knock on wood, the 124 (and I assume 128) is such a reliable baler even approaching 50 years old.
      Had a great early start, but have been on hold for all of June so far with unending cloudy/rainy, with barely a day and a half of sunny weather at any moment around all of the wet/gloom. *Really* hoping for a pattern shift. How has your season been so far?
      Thanks for tuning in!

    • @DennysCountryLife
      @DennysCountryLife Год назад +1

      @@windrowfarm Yep, they have the simplest knotter out of all of them. It's really surprising nobody else copied that platform. One thing I love about the knotters, is they don't leave that extra tuft of cut off twine on the bale, like NH and JD do. Cheers!

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      @@DennysCountryLife Agreed all around!! It's funny, I see JD and NH knotters and don't 100% know what's going on. I just know the MF sure-tie so well. (I grew up working for someone else who also had a 124, so it's really all I know.)

    • @DennysCountryLife
      @DennysCountryLife Год назад +1

      @@windrowfarm I'm in the same boat with the weather. I baled a little on our farm, which was a good test for the hay equipment, before I venture out in the county. It definitely looks like it'll be a July hay year for us. Oh well, I'll take what I can get! Have fun and be safe!

  • @8thdaychronicles
    @8thdaychronicles Год назад +1

    We may be making our first cutting next week here in western North Carolina, weather-dependent.

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      Oh, that’s great! Hope the weather holds for you

  • @NEAFarmKid4010
    @NEAFarmKid4010 Год назад +1

    We baled most of our first cutting last week, including some alfalfa. All but one of our Bermuda fields started out with a good bit of weeds in them, so we round baled them for first cutting and then we're gonna square bale them for second and third. We're gonna bale the last couple first cutting round bale fields this next week, but some of our good clean Bermuda for square baling still has a couple weeks to grow. Its still fairly short yet. Course I'm from Arkansas, so the growing season is much longer than y'all experience in the Northeast.

  • @renesadventures829
    @renesadventures829 Год назад +1

    thats excellent
    :)

  • @davidhickenbottom6574
    @davidhickenbottom6574 Год назад +1

    First time visiting your channel. I live in Palmer I graze beef cows on occasion. Very small acreage. I think it's a good call baling early. We got a beautiful rain Saturday. What's your fertilizer plan.

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      Hey there, small world! And thanks! I’ll certainly be at first cut for the next couple of months in all likelihood, so I think I’ll thank myself later too.
      I fertilize before each cutting - late April and then on a rolling basis as I work on getting first cut done. I try to target ~50 lbs of actual N per acre per cutting, and use a few different fertilizers depending on what the fields need for P and K.
      How many beef cows do you have? And what breed? Glad to know you’re there, keep it up! And thanks for tuning in 😊

  • @markjohnson9402
    @markjohnson9402 10 месяцев назад +1

    Total non farmer question. What type of grass is that. Is it just regular field grass ?

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  10 месяцев назад +1

      Oh, great question! That particular field is a mix of orchardgrass, timothy, and other "native grasses" (maybe some fescues - I'm trying to remember if that particular field has any perennial rye). The top wetter edge actually has some reed canary, but cut early it seems really palatable and goes over well with customers (and yields pretty heavily). No idea when that field last saw a plow or a re-seeding, but if I had to guess it's been 25 or even 50+ years. (That's the case with a lot of the fields I hay). I find that with good fertility and a good haying regimen, they settle into an equilibrium of what grows well there.
      Thanks for asking, and thanks for watching!

    • @markjohnson9402
      @markjohnson9402 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@windrowfarm thanks for the quick reply. I don't have enough area for hay, got 10 acres of pine needles, lol. Well except for where my shop sits. Love watching you guys do this stuff. Due to health issues, I can't do it right now. Have to live vicariously, lol. Great videos !

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  10 месяцев назад +1

      @@markjohnson9402 thanks so much, but sorry to hear that! I hope things improve for you!

  • @TheScientistHayFarmer
    @TheScientistHayFarmer Год назад +1

    Boy you got on it early. I’m planning on mowing Monday and going the entire week but we’re supposed to get a cold spell coming through that might derail my plans.
    How wide is that mower? Doesn’t look like it takes much hp.

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      yeah, personal record by the calendar, for sure. I super lucked out with a 5 day dry/sunny/windy stretch. I'm at the point where every year I get through hay successfully, I take on another field (or two)😅 - so my plan is evolving that the first few fields are gleaning a beautiful but lower-yielding first cut, so I can also hit the "reset" button and hopefully get a bumper crop of second.
      I hope the weather cooperates for you! Last week was pretty cool as well (60's, some 50's, and even patchy frost). Sun/wind makes all the difference though.
      Loving the mower. 8.1 foot cut, only has a 50 hp requirement (no conditioner, but I think we've talked about that in the past?) Both main tractors run it super comfortably, so it's delivering exactly what I was hoping to get out of it. Very well made.
      Thanks for tuning in, and I appreciate what you do as well!

  • @SeattlePioneer
    @SeattlePioneer Год назад +1

    I can SMELL the hay!

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      The best smell! Thanks for watching 😊

  • @Rigoknow
    @Rigoknow Год назад +1

    👍

  • @charlietanner6211
    @charlietanner6211 Год назад +2

    i worked at mf dealer when 165 were new couldnt keep them on lot good all around size tractor i still have one over 10xxx hrs still going

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      Wow, that’s great! Love mine to death. Did have PTO clutch pack issues with it back in 2017, which I know is a common issue. But since then, knock on wood, it’s been nothing but a workhorse. It’s due for some new tires, and I dream about a paint job.
      Thanks for watching!

  • @germansmith3291
    @germansmith3291 Год назад +1

    Goodmorning,
    Where do you get your spreadsheets? Thanks.

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      Hi there! Ah, I actually make them myself - and they’ve become a pretty messy evolution over time that I wouldn’t wish on anyone else to follow 😅. But just basic arithmetic formulas and a lot of color coding. (Expected yield per acre x number of acres, things like that)
      Thanks for tuning in!

    • @JimHerman-o3q
      @JimHerman-o3q 10 месяцев назад

      Why you need a spread sheet ??

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  10 месяцев назад

      @@JimHerman-o3q farming is a business, and for me good business decisions take number crunching 😊

  • @colmanlong1032
    @colmanlong1032 Год назад

    Interesting video, nice content what tractor you using.

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад +1

      Hi there! The two main tractors I use are a Massey 165 (mowing/raking in this video) and Massey 275 (tedding/baling). I also have a 135. Thanks for tuning in!

  • @jamesmorrison1884
    @jamesmorrison1884 Год назад +1

    Hi didnt look like the hay was mature enough to cut. My opinion. Enjoyed your video have a good day sir.

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад +1

      Thanks for watching! I talk about that in the video - I have too much to get through to wait for the first field to be prime. If I do that, the last one will be extremely late and low quality.

  • @paolocavanna8328
    @paolocavanna8328 Год назад +1

    gran bel posto

  • @mcleanfarmsryan3897
    @mcleanfarmsryan3897 Год назад +1

    Still got about a couple weeks here

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад +1

      Most around here would also say the same thing. I’m the eccentric one starting early 😁
      Thanks for watching!

  • @NorthEastOhio
    @NorthEastOhio Год назад +1

    We arnt to far here in Ohio

  • @earlward8825
    @earlward8825 Год назад

    Will never dry

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      It did! Just have to be patient with it and not afraid to work it a bit.
      Thanks for tuning in!

  • @santiagocarnicerogarces9546
    @santiagocarnicerogarces9546 Год назад

    Esa empacadora va muy despacio, esta poco seca la mies...

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      Interesting - I think it really varies depending what part of the world you are in. I know I bale faster than some, slower than others. And this hay all held up well in storage over 5 months, so I'm relieved that it was indeed dry enough. Thanks for watching!

  • @glenparks5175
    @glenparks5175 Год назад +1

    And i had a Mf baler and a 273 NH always had straiter bales with the Massey

    • @windrowfarm
      @windrowfarm  Год назад

      Thanks for tuning in! Agreed, the 124 makes a great bale. Never seems to mind about windrow size or thick/thin yields, great bales come out so long as I have the tension set right

  • @glenparks5175
    @glenparks5175 Год назад +1

    That old MF baler is eating it up