Today was a busy day at the farm. In addition to milking and the usual chores, Thursday’s our day to get hay down. (We drop a week’s worth of square bales down through the hay holes and stack them in front of the cows. We are currently feeding dry hay in the mornings and haylage [...]
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August has been an extremely busy month haying. The wet weather of June and July has changed and we have had many days of cloudless blue skies. It hasn’t been easy, but we’ve finished haying! We baled about 11,000 square bales this year and about 1,100 round silage bales. We also did about 150 dry [...] We had a good weather forecast this morning so started cutting around 8:00 AM and kept cutting for nearly 12 hours today! We started with some second crop alfalfa and also cut some timothy/mixed grass fields. We will be busy the next few days – round bales tomorrow and (we hope!) square bales for 2-3 [...] Initially, we weren’t planning on being able to hay yesterday but the forecast changed to a lower percentage of showers possible. It got us thinking. Then the hot sun came out and we decided to take a chance on getting a few more bales. We cut around 10:00 AM and hoped for the [...] We’ve had a difficult time haying recently due to frequent showers but yesterday we did manage to get in 56 round bales of haylage. We would like to be putting in some dry hay but that’s just not possible with the weather we’ve been having. Let’s hope that changes soon! … means more haying on the Chase Farm! It looks like we will have good weather Monday-Wednesday this week, so we’re cutting today in hopes of getting some square bales. We’ll be calling the crew to let them know we should be haying tomorrow afternoon, as soon as the hay is dry enough to bale. [...] More photos from July 15 & 16 are available We had a few days off from haying due to some showery weather but on July 15 we were able to get some more hay – 124 round bales. While haying we enjoyed the view from some of the highest ground on our farm. I took several other photos during the course of [...] The sun is shining on the Chase Farm today and the HAY IS FALLING! It’s haying time at Chase’s Organic Dairy Farm! The hay crop is ready and we have been able to hay two days so far. Right now, we are ready and waiting for good weather so we can cut more hay. |
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