Plugging Away At The Last Field

It’s all hands on deck as we get down to the final hay field. This year has been a challenge with the breakdown of one tractor, a deadline to get the far field completed before the county road is used as a bypass for the highway and threatening rain every time we start baling.
We had to pick up bales as quickly as they were being punched out of the baler and since the tractor was already being used for the baling it could not be used on the stacker. The Big Red Beast was used quite a bit this year which meant that hand stacking in the barn kept us all busy for many hours through the season.
The crop this year is only about half of the volume we baled last year. This is not a complaint, last year was a stellar year and we could not hope to come close to having that level of production each year.