It seems like just yesterday that we were looking ahead to the summer, thinking about all the hay that we would need to bale to keep the ladies fed and happy...and here we are...just yesterday Jim and Eric unloaded the last load of fifth cutting!
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Knowing when to mow the hay this summer was a challenge. Jim likes to have at least three consecutive days (mininmum) of sunshine in order to get the hay dry enough to stack in the mow, and earlier this summer, those forcasts were few and far between. He ended up wrapping lots of round bales of balage instead of filling the mow with dry hay. Thankfully, the cows love to eat it, and it seems to do just fine for making milk!
Lately, however, it has been extremely dry, so fifth cutting was a breeze, and the hay turned out to be beautiful!
It was also about two weeks ahead of schedule...normally we get five cuttings off of some fields, but not all. This year, we could possibly even get six cuttings from some. I don't remember that ever happening before, but I guess there's a first time for everything!
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