I think the "big time" alfalfa growers in eastern Washington use old fashioned "swathers"- like a sickle-bar haybine, but just brings everything to the middle and makes a windrow, and doesn't condition the hay. But its hot and dry over there, and they actually want it to dry a little slower. They bale right from the swath, usually at night, to minimize leaf loss.
I have heard that disc mowers of any type just don't get as clean a cut as you get with a sickle bar. Sickle bars cut alfalfa very nicely, and aren't the aggravation that they can be in downed grass. I'd just go back to a New Holland Haybine, I guess.
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