Full Tilt Into Hay Season

Our farm ground is broken up by topography. We have several small fields dotted on each side of the meandering river, have some areas on one side of the county road and most on the other, we have the hillside and slopes all around the place. There doesn’t seem to be one flat spot anywhere on the place. It tends to make farming a more creative process.

On Sunday, Mike mowed the far, far field( I call it this because we would have to cross the river twice to get to it from the house on foot). This is the one that we have access to by traveling up the county road and in a densely vegetative logging road. The field itself has a slope on one side that is the steepest grade of all the hayfields. It is so steep that we cannot drive side-hill for fear that the vehicle would tip over. We cannot drive up the slope with a load of bales because they would all slide of the back of the truck or wagon. We can only drive down the slope with an empty rig or we would free-wheel on the steepness.

This field also has a patch of dense clover in one section of the field. When cut, the thick mat of clover tends to bunch and does not dry as quickly as the rest of the field consisting of a higher volume of grass. We also have the upper portion of the field that is drier and thinner in the stand and tends to be ready to bale a full day earlier than the rest of the field.

With all the quirks, we are going to try to finish off this field before Saturday when the forecast calls for rain. We are diving in full tilt on this field and will not cut another field until we have this one safely stored in the barns and there is another dry spell in the works.

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