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    #92
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,363 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    _Brian wrote: »
    I just looked at the 14 day forecast and it has 9 days with rain including today.

    So its changed again? Looks like the early cutters were the right ones. Alot of hay baled yeaterday


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    #93
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,363 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Dunedin wrote: »
    €11 I think. Well, I’ve to buy a few off a fella so I might even go €12 just to be fair!!!!

    Hardly that cheap


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    #94
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Plan is for Monday- forecast still showing rain here tmrw ...


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    #95
    Dunedin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭Dunedin


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Hardly that cheap

    I wish. €25 more like it.


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    #96
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,475 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    What’s the feed value ratio of a typical bale of hay to say average silage ?

    Is a bale of hay at €25 better value than a bale of silage at €25


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    #97
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,156 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    _Brian wrote: »
    What’s the feed value ratio of a typical bale of hay to say average silage ?

    Is a bale of hay at €25 better value than a bale of silage at €25

    Hay would have a higher DM but s lot of hay is baled quite loosely so often bales are only 300 kgs. You get a lot of low DM silage as well made by lads and they get what they perceive to be the cheapest contractor. Buying anything depends on quality and price

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #98
    2smiggy
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    We have 50 or more acres cut, sur why not


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    #99
    Willfarman
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    Buying hay in the bale can be a way of getting a right codding. It is the only way I have ever seen of turning a pigs ear into a silk purse. Rank old grass that would be unpalatable standing looks awful well after 4 or 5 days drying and in a bale. There was a 90 acre farm near here 3 years ago that wasn’t grazed or mowed until August from previous October. Massive cover of half dead matted grass. It looked like the best of hay and sold like early new spuds.


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    #100
    _Brian
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    Willfarman wrote: »
    Buying hay in the bale can be a way of getting a right codding. It is the only way I have ever seen of turning a pigs ear into a silk purse. Rank old grass that would be unpalatable standing looks awful well after 4 or 5 days drying and in a bale. There was a 90 acre farm near here 3 years ago that wasn’t grazed or mowed until August from previous October. Massive cover of half dead matted grass. It looked like the best of hay and sold like early new spuds.

    Could the same not be said for baled silage, they’re not called “lucky dips” for nothing.


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    #101
    Robson99
    Registered Users Posts: 4,189 ✭✭✭Robson99


    Willfarman wrote: »
    Buying hay in the bale can be a way of getting a right codding. It is the only way I have ever seen of turning a pigs ear into a silk purse. Rank old grass that would be unpalatable standing looks awful well after 4 or 5 days drying and in a bale. There was a 90 acre farm near here 3 years ago that wasn’t grazed or mowed until August from previous October. Massive cover of half dead matted grass. It looked like the best of hay and sold like early new spuds.

    Very true Will, An awful lot of hay that is made is ****e thats been growing for 3 or 4 months+
    As regards saving hay as someone said earlier time saves hay not turning 4 times a day.
    The best hay we ever had was cut day 1, turned once day 2, left idle day 3, turned day 4, idle day 5, turned and baled day 6. The finest horse hay you would get


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    #102
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    Say my name wrote:
    If you had of said Siobhan's, i might agree.


    Typical forecaster when you want a forecast he disappears
    Am I to mow or not


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    #103
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,048 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    Typical forecaster when you want a forecast he disappears
    Am I to mow or not

    Did you pay the fee yet??








    Wait till Monday.


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    #104
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,425 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Say my name wrote: »
    Did you pay the fee yet??








    Wait till Monday.

    It's looking good for a head start?


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    #105
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,048 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    kk.man wrote: »
    It's looking good for a head start?

    Here, look at, what I look at..

    https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/arpege.aspx

    https://youtu.be/ezOJNYgsBy8


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    #106
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    Say my name wrote: »
    Did you pay the fee yet??








    Wait till Monday.

    i will have a bale with your name on it


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    #107
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,048 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    i will have a bale with your name on it

    I've a long name.


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    #108
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Say my name wrote: »
    I've a long name.

    Small writing, be grand:p


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    #109
    Willfarman
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    Jesus you’d have cost me a fortune in wrap. After been quare lucky here thank God, Hay will be rattling tomorrow but though shalt not bale on the sabbath so Monday it is.


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    #110
    johnno900
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭johnno900


    All baled! After thunderstorm in Wexford ground was dry by 9am, got the shopping done in the morning, ate out for dinner, sun out at 2, so turned once, rowed, baled at 100 bales by 7. Most bales I've had on these fields in 10 years. Now onto the next 20 acres. Happy baling everyonemail ��


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    #111
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    johnno900 wrote: »
    All baled! After thunderstorm in Wexford ground was dry by 9am, got the shopping done in the morning, ate out for dinner, sun out at 2, so turned once, rowed, baled at 100 bales by 7. Most bales I've had on these fields in 10 years. Now onto the next 20 acres. Happy baling everyonemail ��
    What day did you mow? Was it manures?


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    #112
    johnno900
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    Mowed Monday evening Will. 3 bags 18.6.12 2nd week of Feb.


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    #113
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Still not fit here. Hope to bale Monday.


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    #114
    Sami23
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    Made alot of rain last night for anyone that didn't get it baled yesterday. Wonder will it take the "good" out of it ?


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    #115
    gozunda
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    Rain here this morning. Hoping rest of day is dry ...


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    #116
    Dozer1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    Raining here too...forecast not too good


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    #117
    Thepillowman
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    Whats the cost of turning hay with a haybob ,is it per acre or hour ,thanks in advance.


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    #118
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,363 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Thepillowman wrote: »
    Whats the cost of turning hay with a haybob ,is it per acre or hour ,thanks in advance.

    Can be either. My tedder is €10 per acre. Big jobs are done less but that's the standard charge for small acres


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    #119
    50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭50HX


    Mowed Fri evening , made a good drop of rain here last niten

    See how the week goes will prob bag it.....light crop


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    #120
    Sami23
    Registered Users Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭Sami23


    50HX wrote: »
    Mowed Fri evening , made a good drop of rain here last niten

    See how the week goes will prob bag it.....light crop

    Will you not try for Hay. No rain forecast after today till next Sunday at least


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    #121
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,475 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I’m up north today.
    Lots of fields of damp hay on the ground. Hopefully next week will see it baked up.


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