In Northern Ireland our ground is very undulating due to being formed by glacial action....We know the southern part of the country,Counties Armagh and Co.Down as a basket of eggs topography, because that is just how it looks. the galcial action formed short very steep hills where the ice met hard ground and had to go up over it then tailed off into a gradual slope. We work it all....Although we have a wet climate we never get the real torrential downpours that I have experienced in America, so erosion is not a real problem. We have become adept to mowing and lifting grass on these hills, but we are not as good as those in Switzerland. Flat land is nearly non existant in the Alpine regions and they make hay everywhere right up to the snow line. Go to Utube to see pedestrain operated 9 foot mowing machines and swathers, just because the ground is too steep for tractors. The crops of grass are not that heavy but they can rake it to flatter areas for collecting or baling. Sam
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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