Today on 2 Minutes with the Farmer we are feeding the first hay of the winter to the cows. Hay feeding is a part of life for raising cattle here in central KY. Thank you for watching and spending 2 minutes with me!
mmmmnnn that hay looks so good! hey what's those bales held together with?
just have the folks install one of those electric motor gates, problem solved.
"sad day for the Farmer." lol!
yes sir I bet that stuff is tough. Well does the bale stay together after you take it off because it's been pressed into that shape? That one you showed, had that been cut off? You cut it off right?
Yay for hay. Do you grow lucerne @bowentroyer? (I think you call it alfalfa?) We used to do fields of lucerne which we cut and bailed or used as pasture. No more lucerne since the drought
My wife's uncle lives up the road a piece and I help him bail hay every year. His hay baler spits out the standard rectangular bails. We bail and load up his barn with about 2000 bails a year. I was just wondering how many of these bails would make up one of those circular bails?
The round bales I fed to day are 4ft by 5 ft and weigh about 750 lbs. not sure how much regular squares weigh. 2000 is a lot of work, I bet you all have fun though
We bale the small rectangular bales also. They weigh in around 50 lbs. each (average) so that would be about 15 bales per one of your round bales.
We are cutting orchard grass / clover mix and those sell for about $4.50 each. So looks like you are getting a good deal on hay.
Yeah, and that is for mediocre hay. I know some guys around here that are getting $5.50 to $6.00 per bale for good second cutting Orchard Grass hay. I'm looking into putting an additional 10 - 15 acres into hay production based on this. If someone would have told me 10 years ago that people would be growing hay as a cash crop, I would have thought they where nuts! ;)
We buy all ours. Our land is really hilly and not the best for bailing hay. Right now good alfalfa is going for $220 a ton. But mostly just horse people buy it around here. We feed fescue and clover hay which is around $90 a ton
Grass alfalfa mix is pretty popular here for the cold months. We have mostly all meadow grass that we bailed. We traded labor for some millet and some alfalfa.
We are researching trying to decide what to plant next spring for our operation.
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mmmmnnn that hay looks so good! hey what's those bales held together with?
just have the folks install one of those electric motor gates, problem solved.
"sad day for the Farmer." lol!
Net wrapped hay. We will get the electric gate sometime;)
okay sir Farmer but do you take the netting off or they just eat through it or what?
You take it off. It holds the bales together better than twine but it is more work getting off
yes sir I bet that stuff is tough. Well does the bale stay together after you take it off because it's been pressed into that shape? That one you showed, had that been cut off? You cut it off right?
Yes they keep there shape well. Yes it is off in that video
Your cows look really healthy
Yay for hay. Do you grow lucerne @bowentroyer? (I think you call it alfalfa?) We used to do fields of lucerne which we cut and bailed or used as pasture. No more lucerne since the drought
All the Lucerne around here gets fed to the horses. We just feed grass hay to the cows and goats.
My wife's uncle lives up the road a piece and I help him bail hay every year. His hay baler spits out the standard rectangular bails. We bail and load up his barn with about 2000 bails a year. I was just wondering how many of these bails would make up one of those circular bails?
The round bales I fed to day are 4ft by 5 ft and weigh about 750 lbs. not sure how much regular squares weigh. 2000 is a lot of work, I bet you all have fun though
We bale the small rectangular bales also. They weigh in around 50 lbs. each (average) so that would be about 15 bales per one of your round bales.
We are cutting orchard grass / clover mix and those sell for about $4.50 each. So looks like you are getting a good deal on hay.
Wow. You guys are doing well. $4.50 a bale makes all that work worth it.
Yeah, and that is for mediocre hay. I know some guys around here that are getting $5.50 to $6.00 per bale for good second cutting Orchard Grass hay. I'm looking into putting an additional 10 - 15 acres into hay production based on this. If someone would have told me 10 years ago that people would be growing hay as a cash crop, I would have thought they where nuts! ;)
Every little bit helps. Think it’s a great idea
Have a great time. Three or four sunny days and lots of friends and family, could not get much better!
Do the cattle waste any of that type of bale?
Yes they do waste some. I would say about 5 percent
Do you bail your own or buy? What is the going rate per ton for grass alfalfa mix?
We buy all ours. Our land is really hilly and not the best for bailing hay. Right now good alfalfa is going for $220 a ton. But mostly just horse people buy it around here. We feed fescue and clover hay which is around $90 a ton
Grass alfalfa mix is pretty popular here for the cold months. We have mostly all meadow grass that we bailed. We traded labor for some millet and some alfalfa.
We are researching trying to decide what to plant next spring for our operation.
That is exciting. It is always nice when you can trade for things