Big Baling Haygrazer Hay: Day 1

Today we are baling Haygrazer on my field, West Baghdad. It is making a lot. We had trouble with the windrows dragging underneath the tractor but fixed our problem with a mud flap.
This is part 1 of 2 on big baling this year. Stay tuned for part 2 coming up next week.
Thanks!!

[@bigunone]

Glad to see you are up and moving

[@jacksonstipe1966]

Nice video. Your bales look good and stack good looks like. The haygrazer is tough to make nice bales with. What do you shoot for flakes/bale?

[@briancrossno]

Awesome video as always Love seeing how hay is made and baled in different parts of the country. Is it a problem to bale at night there? Also do you use a preservative to help the hay have sustainability? Hope you are continuing to improve health wise and as always prayers are with you and your family. Keep them videos coming and stay safe my friends 😎🌞👍

[@jacksonstipe1966]

We bale out in Idaho at night and early morning to catch a dew and hold the alfalfa leaves on the stem. Baling during the day the humidity drops too low and your bales turn to crap and you break strings. This method works for out west in the high desert area. Each area is different of course. Midwest could be a total different.

[@jessaryenterprises]

Thanks!! Yes, different parts of the country have different weather and that leads to a different war to play the hay game. With our weather, we are dry. So the only time the humidity comes in is at night and sometimes not at all. Especially in the fall and winter, we may not see hood humidity over 50% in a 24 hour period. Most times it’s the wettest right before daylight. And we can bale mostly on the come in and less on the go out during the mid morning. We do get dews but anymore they are rare. On the preservative, we don’t use it. We wait till the hay is 100% stem dry. Then wait for the humidity to wet up enough to bale it on the normal moisture. It’s the only way we roll here. All this hay this year had been laying cut 3 weeks or more.