Making A New Hay Field For the Spring!

We are making us a new hay field for the spring! We have about 10 acres of some bottomland property that isn't being used. We have planted corn on it in the past, but haven't in a couple years. We decided it would be a good location to plant some rye grass that we can cut and make rye grass haylage next spring.
The property had some drainage issues so last year we dug a ditch and did some work to keep water from standing on it. The water is draining much better, but it left some uneven places in the field. Our plan is to go through and plow the field up, fertilize it, spread lime on it, smooth it down as best we can and plant rye grass.

[@casonalbin8307]

Great video!

[@FarmerHunt]

Thank you!

[@billking5407]

Nice video hope th new hay field good

[@FarmerHunt]

Thank you! The grass is coming along. We’ll be doing an update on it at some point.

[@brianhammond2307]

You need to plant that in a food plot be a great place to hunt

[@FarmerHunt]

That would be a good place to hunt. Eric won’t ever give me time off for stuff like that though 😂😂😂

[@joelchurch2499]

I’ve never spread lime with my litter bed. I guess you have the inverted V over the chain for spreading lime? How full can you fill the bed ? I’m guessing a full load of lime might be way to heavy.

[@FarmerHunt]

Yes, we have a baffle (inverted V) that goes in the bed to keep all that weight off the chain. We usually put 6-7 tons in a truck when we spread it. You can barely see it in the truck bed from the ground when it’s loaded.

[@joelchurch2499]

@@FarmerHunt 👍🏻gotcha, thanks for the info.

[@dwightharber4873]

Ben about how many acres is that field? Looks like y'all did a good job plowing and leavening. I hope it becomes a really good hay field

[@FarmerHunt]

It’s about 10 acres. It’s an odd field. It’s too small to fence in, but it has really good dirt. I think we may eventually cut silage on it. Hopefully for this year we will have some good rye grass haylage. Thanks for watching!

[@ki4kwf]

Do yall prefer the tandem or single axle spreader truck better?

[@FarmerHunt]

Definitely the tandem. It has the locking rear ends and it’s also an automatic. It’ll go a lot of places the single axle won’t all while hauling a heavier load

[@ki4kwf]

@@FarmerHunt Nice. We're about to be in the market for one so this is good info.

[@florinman265]

Why do you prefer the Ray grass instead of alfalfa?

[@FarmerHunt]

We haven’t personally grown alfalfa, but have heard from people that have in our area and haven’t had good results. We may try some one day. This piece of land that we planted in rye grass isn’t well drained. We decided to go with rye because we are pretty much guaranteed to have some hay off of it. Have you ever planted alfalfa?

[@florinman265]

@@FarmerHunt yes I did plant alfalfa in 2016 and I still have it. :))Now I have 22 ha plough, and I was wandering what to plant.

[@FarmerHunt]

Where are you located?

[@florinman265]

@@FarmerHunt Romania!

[@JWick-ry7wf]

Do a little homework, that is a disc.

[@FarmerHunt]

We usually call it a harrow