Cutting and Tedding Hay

Travis just started mowing the new sitting here at the main farm this is where the parking is going to be for the farm day so whether or not this stays in alfalfa depends on how well it comes back next year or how well it grows back after the farm day but we'll see looks pretty good so far as is always with new seating there is quite a few weeds in here namely ragweed right now but there's actually a pretty good crop of alfalfa in here as well so it's starting to flower probably should have started cutting it a little bit before now because you want to cut it right as it starts flowering but we've had rain about every every other day if not every day for the last week and a half so here he comes again so once he does a small patch of about two acres where the parking will be he's going to go up on top of the hill and do the next few acres that are up there of the new seating then from here he's going to go out and he's going to start mowing the hay out of my place after that I am going to get in the seventy six hundred and seventy six has the Rhine opt for 19h cheddar on it and I'm going to Ted roughly two hours we're thinking but it'll probably be a little bit shorter considering how high the Sun is I don't think I'll have to wait quite two hours because I think the ground will dry out a lot faster before then so once he goes out there I'm going to start tedding and then we'll come through we'll rake it up and then we'll make it here in the next coming days depending on what the weather does so all right let's get rolling aside from all the leftover oats that's still in it I think it looks pretty good so I'm just about done petting this first patch of new seating here by the buildings and what I'm noticing is that I'm losing a lot of yellow or lowered leaves on the plants as I'm tending which is fine because they were going to fall off anyway and we're trying to preserve the greener leaves on the plant which hold more of the nutrients so what we're trying to do or what our goal here is that last time if you'll remember we waited around 24 hours before tedding and we heard that by tedding sooner after cutting you can preserve more of the leaves because if you wait longer the hay will be so dry that when you hit it with the Tedder the leaves will get knocked right off and that is where your nutrients are and that's what your cattle want so for us it really doesn't matter because we have beef cattle and they'll eat just about anything but for those of you who are wondering what works best for us if you're looking to getting into tedding I kind of want to give you an example of what we prefer so that's kind of the goal of everything that we are doing some of you may crucify us because we're cutting hay so early early after cutting but we've heard so many different opinions everybody has their own different opinion for what works best for them and what they like best so I think for us it's best if we figure out for ourselves what we prefer and I think we might prefer this but method a little bit better because we are spreading out the plants a little more and we are giving it more some more sunlight to dry out faster so after you cut the plant what happens is that there are tiny tiny holes and leaves and in the plant that provides access for water to leave the plant and as after you cut the plant they close because the plant is trying to preserve the water that it has after its supply line was cut and the sooner that you can start the hay drying after you cut it the better because if you don't then the plant really doesn't like to dry down which is why we are tedding it immediately so that it gets the maximum amount of sunlight rather than just letting the hay sit for 24 hours and then going through and cut and tedding so just letting you guys know the reasoning for why we're doing this and what we what we hope to aim for and I'm really looking forward to seeing what we prefer what works better and what we think produces a better quality bale so all right I'm going to wait for Travis to finish cutting up there I can't hear him anymore so we might be done but I found that by running the tractor at around five to six miles an hour and around 1650 rpm is just right so what if that's what I'm comfortable running with and I'm probably going to stick with it so all right let's keep marching on [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you [Music] [Music] you we're almost done I've reached a lull and I'm waiting for Travis to get more done because I'm caught up to him I was just kind of letting him stay ahead but I mean it's kind of getting to the time of day where we need to start getting this done so I'm going to wait for him and then once he's done I'm going to I can do it in no time flat because I can do at least twice as fast as he can cut the hay so anyway that's going to be all for this video guys I'm going to be sure to 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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 29 2017