Fine looking hay. I’ve heard guys baling big bluestem and grama grass southwest MN, native plants on the big prairie. Bison like it. The stuff we call hay is probably considered invasive😅. 114 acres is intense work if you’re baling alone. I’m happy with 40!
Gamagrass is commonly found along roadsides around here. The only place around me that still has any wild grasses is under the powerlines. i have been thinking of making a video to see if any of the remnants of the old pasture grasses still exist.
Yeah, I think it be a cool video about if you did something in your area with the displacement of small farms and meat production in the area and now what people are used to seeing is processed and fast food carbohydrate model there’s a lot to talk about there
@@michiganhay7844 Yes I wish I had more pictures of what we had. I always looked forward to visiting our farm friends because they had all the fun equipment, animals and the great stories from the old days. Even in our suburbs we had small farms, plant nurseries and every yard had fruit trees and some vegetable gardens. Now people get doordash and Uber eats!
Hammer down Ray! We unhooked the cutters tonight with 107 acres down. Was gonna drop another 90 but hoping to get the rye harvest and bale the straw. 5.8 inches of rain last 6 days and more coming Tuesday.
Looks like it will all make fine hay. There's a Pheasant farm up here that grows Big Bluestem for bitd cover. I've been wondering how it would do for hay.
Actually, the farm I was on as a pheasant hunting farm and I think that’s why they got that big blue stem. I don’t think it generally makes very good. Hay looks pretty coarse and it doesn’t do well to repetitive mowing and grazing from what I understand. Pheasants that far north huh? I can’t imagine you actually have any wild pheasant that survived the winter up there do you Almost extinct the 77 blizzard is took them out
Looks good Ray!! We've got places the 💩 annuals have taken over. Gotta get them worked up and replanted... Makes me shutter every time you mention Italian rye grass.. a few guys grew it for seed 10-15 years ago.. they've been fighting it ever since.. one guy found that if he plants gulf annual ryegrass, it will crowd out the Italian.. but then hes selling contaminated seed..
@@AgWildNebraska looked a lot more coarse this stuff is the green and giant Foxtail that everybody hates because it gets into the wheat corn and beans but makes great Forage if you cut it green
@@AgWildNebraska only because there are some instances supposedly of the seeds getting caught in horses, gums and causing inflammation in the mouth. They’ll tell you the same thing about cattle as well but then there’s something they call Foxtail in the west like California that is not related, but it’s just a common name that actually gets an animals eyes and causes serious issues because of the seeds.
If it has a few legumes…excellent hay🙂. Gama can get real tough 😉. That’ll work the mower.
Hey Jack, Yeah, that’s what a couple other people had said as well
Fine looking hay. I’ve heard guys baling big bluestem and grama grass southwest MN, native plants on the big prairie. Bison like it. The stuff we call hay is probably considered invasive😅. 114 acres is intense work if you’re baling alone. I’m happy with 40!
Gamagrass is commonly found along roadsides around here. The only place around me that still has any wild grasses is under the powerlines. i have been thinking of making a video to see if any of the remnants of the old pasture grasses still exist.
Yeah, I think it be a cool video about if you did something in your area with the displacement of small farms and meat production in the area and now what people are used to seeing is processed and fast food carbohydrate model there’s a lot to talk about there
@@michiganhay7844 Yes I wish I had more pictures of what we had. I always looked forward to visiting our farm friends because they had all the fun equipment, animals and the great stories from the old days. Even in our suburbs we had small farms, plant nurseries and every yard had fruit trees and some vegetable gardens. Now people get doordash and Uber eats!
Man you got some grass I’ve never heard of but keep up the good work Ray and hope you have a blessed weekend my friend.
Hey Tony, hope you guys are enjoying your new Homestead. Excited to see some upcoming videos getting back out into the country.
Hammer down Ray! We unhooked the cutters tonight with 107 acres down. Was gonna drop another 90 but hoping to get the rye harvest and bale the straw. 5.8 inches of rain last 6 days and more coming Tuesday.
Yeah, I figured you really had the hammer down. You must be going like nuts. You got the ability to bail. A lot of hate at one time.
Looks nice and green.
Getting any hay mow yet
@@michiganhay7844 Yes sir, getting it done.
Great looking stuff. How do you keep the johnson grass out of those fields?
Don’t really have any in this area. It’s not an issue this far north.
Looks like it will all make fine hay. There's a Pheasant farm up here that grows Big Bluestem for bitd cover. I've been wondering how it would do for hay.
Actually, the farm I was on as a pheasant hunting farm and I think that’s why they got that big blue stem. I don’t think it generally makes very good. Hay looks pretty coarse and it doesn’t do well to repetitive mowing and grazing from what I understand. Pheasants that far north huh? I can’t imagine you actually have any wild pheasant that survived the winter up there do you Almost extinct the 77 blizzard is took them out
@@michiganhay7844 No wild pheasants here. They have to grow there own. On a mild winter like last year some that escape do make it.
Looks good Ray!!
We've got places the 💩 annuals have taken over. Gotta get them worked up and replanted...
Makes me shutter every time you mention Italian rye grass.. a few guys grew it for seed 10-15 years ago.. they've been fighting it ever since.. one guy found that if he plants gulf annual ryegrass, it will crowd out the Italian.. but then hes selling contaminated seed..
Do cows eat it
A good few days. That crabgrass looks really thick
Doesn’t that Foxtel kind of look like the German millet you were doing except just a little bit thinner
The German millet I planted gets a really big head like a cattail
@@AgWildNebraska looked a lot more coarse this stuff is the green and giant Foxtail that everybody hates because it gets into the wheat corn and beans but makes great Forage if you cut it green
@@michiganhay7844 but it's not good for horses right?
@@AgWildNebraska only because there are some instances supposedly of the seeds getting caught in horses, gums and causing inflammation in the mouth. They’ll tell you the same thing about cattle as well but then there’s something they call Foxtail in the west like California that is not related, but it’s just a common name that actually gets an animals eyes and causes serious issues because of the seeds.