Hay

wrangler

2smiggy wrote: »

Amazing the amount of people who don't give a rough idea of their location on done deal. Sort of foolish when selling something like hay

huge amount of hay baled now, it won't be easy get a price now, it'll be easy bought

Teddy 1234

BENDYBINN wrote: »

There’s a website called DoneDeal......it gives a good indication of the price of everything..

Really!!! I was just wondering what price people are getting. prices on DoneDeal between 25-30€. With all this hay it will be difficult to get 25€

Water John

Probably correct, DD tells you what people want for their product not what people pay for it. Good hay though will last for years if you can store it.

Reggie.

92 bales of 9 acres for a customer

gozunda

2smiggy wrote: »

Amazing the amount of people who don't give a rough idea of their location on done deal. Sort of foolish when selling something like hay

If you search by region with a keyword - it should give the sellers in that region eg Leinster, Munster etc

alps

2smiggy wrote: »

Amazing the amount of people who don't give a rough idea of their location on done deal. Sort of foolish when selling something like hay

Bloody disaster when you're trying to buy in County Cork...even if we still used landlines you'd have some clue of the area from the phone number..

2smiggy

gozunda wrote: »

If you search by region with a keyword - it should give the sellers in that region eg Leinster, Munster etc

I mean like they say 'top quality hay €27' and all you have to go by is County Cork. Mitchelstown is as close to Dublin as it is close to part of west Cork

BENDYBINN

2smiggy wrote: »

I mean like they say 'top quality hay €27' and all you have to go by is County Cork. Mitchelstown is as close to Dublin as it is close to part of west Cork

Ah sure they don’t want the neighbors knowing their business.............

bogman_bass

Got mine baled yesterday. A relief after Saturday’s rain

Reggie.

bogman_bass wrote: »

Got mine baled yesterday. A relief after Saturday’s rain

Told ya youd be grand

Sami23

Was awful dull all day yesterday. Hopefully it improves for few days or will be very hard to get Hay this week

squinn2912

Ready to bale today but trying to get someone to square bale it so might be tomorrrow

2smiggy

got to bale about 100 or so yesterday evening, but a dull day in North Cork yesterday, and today has started no better.

Sami23

2smiggy wrote: »

got to bale about 100 or so yesterday evening, but a dull day in North Cork yesterday, and today has started no better.

Was the Hay still fit enough to bale when the day was so dull

2smiggy

Sami23 wrote: »

Was the Hay still fit enough to bale when the day was so dull

did not start to bale till around 6, it was a bit brighter by then. We have so much to do (70 acres) , we just made a start anyway !! It did seem fit to bale IMO.

jimmy G M

Bright sunny morning here in Galway. Will turn the hay once the dew is gone around 11, row up around 2 and bale around 4. Grass was cut this day last week...

bogman_bass

2smiggy wrote: »

Sami23 wrote: »

Was the Hay still fit enough to bale when the day was so dull

did not start to bale till around 6, it was a bit brighter by then. We have so much to do (70 acres) , we just made a start anyway !! It did seem fit to bale IMO.

I don’t think i’d Ever have the balls to do that much hay at one time.

Sami23

bogman_bass wrote: »

I don’t think i’d Ever have the balls to do that much hay at one time.

You'd want some amount of shed space too for storage :eek:

Teddy 1234

Do people Ted it out once or twice a day

Sami23

Teddy 1234 wrote: »

Do people Ted it out once or twice a day

Usually once here unless it's an unreal day altogether

whelan2

Sami23 wrote: »

You'd want some amount of shed space too for storage :eek:

70 acres of storage

johnnyw20

jimmy G M wrote: »

Bright sunny morning here in Galway. Will turn the hay once the dew is gone around 11, row up around 2 and bale around 4. Grass was cut this day last week...

Doing the exact same as you and mine was cut last Wednesday evening aswell

2smiggy

bogman_bass wrote: »

I don’t think i’d Ever have the balls to do that much hay at one time.

It's my father, I would not be too keen on that much myself, but it's his farm !! We have it all pretty much sold off the field already, once it's right of course.

It's a grand day here today thankfully, so hopefully get stuck into it in the afternoon

Teddy 1234

My glas field was cut Monday morning, it was nearly gone for into hay on the stem. It will be bales Friday. Do people tell the baler man to chop hay like they do with silage ?

Dunedin

Teddy 1234 wrote: »

My glas field was cut Monday morning, it was nearly gone for into hay on the stem. It will be bales Friday. Do people tell the baler man to chop hay like they do with silage ?

Definitely Don’t chop hay

Bass Reeves

Dunedin wrote: »

Definitely Don’t chop hay

Why not. I have done it before. Would not chop May it early June has as there is feed value in the flower/seed head.eith all grass gone to seed on a July sward I see no issue in chopping the bales especially if going to be fed in a slatted shed

Albert Johnson

bogman_bass wrote: »

2smiggy wrote: »

Sami23 wrote: »

Was the Hay still fit enough to bale when the day was so dull

did not start to bale till around 6, it was a bit brighter by then. We have so much to do (70 acres) , we just made a start anyway !! It did seem fit to bale IMO.

I don’t think i’d Ever have the balls to do that much hay at one time.

I worked for a lad that is always after a quick buck and changes the farming system yearly. He made a savage belt of hay and silage a few years back for sale, something like 2,800 round bales with more than half hay. There was about 120 acres of hay down in broken weather and silage at the same time, he spent a month solid looking at every weather forecasting site on the net. Any good day was manic between baling, tedding and drawing bales around the clock. The boss lost about 2 stone in weight from pure stress and I'd say his blood pressure could have been measured in PSI for the few weeks. It was all got in the end although I've never been able to look at snack boxes, cold meat salads or fags the same way since.

Dunedin

Bass Reeves wrote: »

Why not. I have done it before. Would chop May it early June has as there is feed value in the flower/seed head.eith all grass gone to seed on a July sward I see no issue in chopping the bales especially if going to be fed in a slatted shed

Everyone to their own but my lad forgot to turn off the knives a few years ago and I found it a nightmare feeding it but suppose it depends on where you are feeding it. I feed it in mangers and it broke my heart falling apart.

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Very little rain forecast for the next week.

Siamsa Sessions

Apologies if this dangerous question has been answered earlier but how much is a round bale of hay making now?

In the south-east of the country