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Hay 2024

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  • #422
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Austinbrick


    You'll have a headache so Panadol looking at next week's forecast!!!

    Looks good though.



  • #423
    davidk1394
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    I mowed 60 acres last Friday for a man. His going for hay, wasn't turned yet. I'll let ye know how it goes.



  • #424
    Sami23
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122611181#Comment_122611181

    Ah that's madness leaving stuff untouched for a week.

    It be gone all yellow at the bottom ud imagine.

    It's middle of September lads would want to forget about Hay for this year surely

    Post edited by Sami23 on


  • #425
    limo_100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭limo_100


    was working nights last night and the fields this morning where white with was nearly frost it was so cold so think hay could be slow to get



  • #426
    tractorporn
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    I got some hay last weekend. It was cut the weekend before which was good any dry but got rain in between. It's only for bedding so it should be ok

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  • #427
    PANADOL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭PANADOL


    Got some nice hayledge for the horsey customers baled and wrapped yesterday



  • #428
    Castlekeeper
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    A last chance week coming up for hay going by the forecasts, as long as the mornings wouldn't be misty.

    “We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.” George Orwell.



  • #429
    StevenToast
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    Im cutting 20 acres tmw....a 2nd cut...very light crop...not much on it...im going for haylage....ill aim to bale next Thursday

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • #430
    glanman
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    Going for a few acres too tomorrow once the rain clears



  • #431
    minerleague
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122615765#Comment_122615765

    At this stage of year would you not be better off grazing it and extending grazing year? Find very little grows back on meadows cut at this time of year and you end up putting cattle in shed earlier eating the ( expensive to make ) hay/silage instead of grazing it. Might be different if you are going to fertilize after?



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  • #432
    StevenToast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,217 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122619608#Comment_122619608

    Thats a fair point and something I would have done......but im very lightly stocked after converting to organics this year...very hard to source stock....i have a good number of weanlings coming in December so ill need the haylage for them over the winter...

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • #433
    minerleague
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122619646#Comment_122619646

    In that case you're better cutting it, you'll have better grass next spring anyway



  • #434
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,369 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    personally I think it’s unwise to be trying for hay at this stage. See is down until 11 in the morning now and back down by 8 in the evening. Yes there are good days coming this week but those days are short



  • #435
    StevenToast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,217 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Serious drying going on today. For as long as I can remember, September always delivers this kind of weather for a week or 2....

    June can be a complete washout....our seasons have changed....Summer is July, August, September....Autumn is October, November, December...Winter is January, February, March and Spring is April, May, June.

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • #436
    StevenToast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,217 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122620626#Comment_122620626

    Would have been no problem getting hay this week....im baling up today as if I leave it until tmw...it will be hay...

    Im happy with dry haylage....

    September is Summer, June is Spring.

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • #437
    emaherx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,627 ✭✭✭emaherx


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122628922#Comment_122628922

    Nah, it's more like the seasons have been put on shuffle in the playlist.



  • #438
    893bet
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    a couple of unusual summers don’t change the seasons lol



  • #439
    emaherx
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122629744#Comment_122629744

    No but an increasing number of unusual summers, springs, autumns and winters do.



  • #440
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Austinbrick


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    Tidying up some rented grazing fields that haven't seen the haybob in a long time.Will be great bedding. Don't mind that straw stuff.



  • #441
    kk.man
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122630046#Comment_122630046

    As long as you have a good grab when cleaning it out.



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  • #442
    emaherx
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122630155#Comment_122630155

    Very true, it would want a shear grab. I find it tough going with the time grab just cleaning the bit along feed barrier in dry bedded shed.



  • #443
    StevenToast
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    Baled up there today....basically green hay....not quite hay...not quite haylage....

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • #444
    kk.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭kk.man


    I saw a man make hay in October in conditions similar to what we have now.

    He opened it up in the spring, it was dust. We don't have seasons for nothing even if they are a bit skewed.



  • #445
    davidk1394
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    Making a start at the hay here. That's the Suir Valley infron of us and the Comeraghs in the distance. You can see from Clonmel at one corner down to the suspension bridge crossing the Suir down near Waterford city.



  • #446
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭Austinbrick


    Great shots. Plenty of good hay there.



  • #447
    kk.man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭kk.man


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122633973#Comment_122633973

    Great part of the country what rake did you use?



  • #448
    davidk1394
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122635154#Comment_122635154

    I've a 24ft kuhn on a David Brown 1394

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  • #449
    glanman
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    Made best hay of the year this week 😎



  • #450
    Aravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Aravo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122641152#Comment_122641152

    Well done to you. It was a great week and great Sept so far. Everything is nice and dry. It's so nice being out and about these days in a pair of boots.



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