Re: What to do.....

Posted by Texasmark on May 04, 2022 at 07:01:52 from (99.197.208.100):

In Reply to: Re: What to do..... posted by Tx Jim on May 04, 2022 at 04:58:20:

I was hoping you'd chime in since your farm is fairly close to me and you bale hay for a living.

I have a MOCO and a drum mower. You helped me decide on the MOCO for cutting as I can control the WW and cut higher which is
good to aid in drying and it offers the stem crimping function also. The summer grasses in the same fields like having some stem
height to get going for their summer growth period. I wore out my old tedder and bought a new one last year. No doubt they pay
for themselves especially since I don't have perfectly rectangular (long and skinny) fields; really helps to spread out clumping in
irregular corners which are most of my corners. I usually start tedding the day after I cut and ted till the hay is dry....as dry as I can
get it on spring crops.

On hay quality, I agree that leaves are more nutritious than stems but being mature the seed pods would be in the grain category
would they not? We combine grain to get the seed pods and the associated food value, why wouldn't the Rye seeds be of similar
value, offsetting the bad effect of the stems? The fertilizer I applied went somewhere. Ruminants do a good job of digesting. I
don't have a horse customer.

On wrapper I assume you mean plastic bale encapsulation and a squeezing device to move the bales without penetrating the
plastic. Not sure a STO can afford such. I have a hard enough time getting my bottom line in the black as it is. There are BTOs
around here that do that and it makes an impressive row of rolls. They also cut corn sileage and row it out with a plastic covering
which seems to work well for bunk feeding stockers.

Thanks for your inputs.

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