Learning to Bale Again? 

Stumbled on your channel not long ago and I must tell you I'm very envious of your hay. I'm in in northern part of Illinois (roughly 70 miles due west of Chicago, and only here because of managing large equine breeding farms) and I have 20 acres in hay. 7 acres in alfalfa and the rest is grass, red clover (not the biggest fan of for baling) and alfalfa mix. It is now the end of May and I have been wanting to mow hay for the last 2 weeks but between all the rain (over 5 inches so far and low 50 degree days). Grass has headed and 2.5 to 3 ft, alfalfa hasn't started to bloom but tall and large stems. We deal with this almost every spring and summer isn't much better. Heavy morning dew high humidity, very short window to bale. I'm 68 and do it all the old fashioned way, not that I want to. Open tractor, 489 haybine, 336 New Holland small square baler that has a thrower because I can't find kids to buck bales. That way I load wagons by myself and unload them when I can. Getting wimpy as I have cut the weight of bales down to 45 50 lbs. Every year I think this is it for doing hay but still have 8 head of horses left of my own. No longer have to worry about taking care and feeding several hundred head. I know this is a long comment, but just started out to ask you how many pounds of seed per acre do you use? Enjoy your channel.

Actually cows have 4 compartments that make up their stomach: the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum.

Hey Bales!

Hmmm, I might have to go hang out in Buckeye for an afternoon, I love the smell of fresh cut hay. That Brian Turner is "outstanding in his field"!

As to educating us, Top 5 video you have done!

Another great time watching you makes bales

I cut a lot of hay with a Massey 36 swather ,no cab, then baled with an AC WD45 pulling a Massey 12 baler. Things sure have changed since I was your age!

Great video for me to see! Yes, weight on bales critical! Just hauled a load out of Mohawk Valley. 79,790lbs in a dry van. So much different than my days on the farm in NW Minnesota. Small bales, 60-80lbs. Hopefully I'm able to get a load from Bales Hay someday! Appreciate your videos with Zach and Randy that I watch religiously. Thanks again!

Awesome video!

My 1st cutting is always round fathers day...my great grandpa always said A cold wet may fills the barn w/ grain & hay!

I’ve baled the rye grass a couple times, it tested 18% protein and 210 rfv…. No body knows what it is and so t pay for it so I feed it to my own livestock and had the biggest lamb crop I’ve ever seen…. Long story short ryegrass is awesome feed

Good video good content

Thanks for telling me we was riding on top of the mower I got bugs and leaves in my eyes I would have put my googles on to watch

Does anyone else just love the word “Gazeeka”?😂

I was poppin’ off the “that’s what she said” jokes, as Trevor kept saying “These are some big stems”.

Just thinking back to the 12 foot Hesston sickle mower conditioner thinking that we were getting a lot done at 3 to 4 mph!

The haybine I ran would do 11mph on the flat road up hill maybe 5mph of course that was 1980 lol.

Trevor. Do you use propianic or lactic acid when you bale as a preservative? I live in Minnesota and used to raise hay for dairy. We used lactic acid as it was easier on cows stomach. Up here in Minnesota, we never worry to much about baling to dry. Hence the need for preservative. Moisture migrates to a degree, from an area of high moisture to an area of low moisture. So the moisture in the nodules will migrate out into the leaf. Also cattle have 4 stomachs. You make a product that we could only dream. Good job. Why lactic acid? It's the same acid found in silage. So a dairyman told me that he preferred our hay because it didn't cost him anything. As soon as he fed our hay, his cows drank more water and consequently gave nore milk. He said that his milk per cow went up at least 50%.. Thank you for the informative video.

about gps: it is nice to let go of the wheel and drink soda untill you have to turn on the headland tho some drivers freewheel anyway because they just like to drive i guess

Now as to green dye, remember lots of golf courses improve their fairways with green dye.

I sure miss getting hay from ya'll.

Megusta mucho ese invento de la empacado, para no tener que trabajar por la noche👋👋. Puedes comentar más sobre ello, en España no existen esas máquinas.

You guys are the 'Spacemen' of hay making. 🤔😉

I've heard of people painting their grass so it stays green all year lol its worth a shot with hay also lol!! 😆 🤣

Hey Trevor, I was curious what size of tractor do you use in haying? Always great content.

I think i bought some of your hay at the sun circuit in Scottsdale they where more than 90lbs 😆

It’s insane how much power those wr9970 have. We have a pair of challenger 9770 and those puppies only do like 13-14 mph and you guys are doing like 15-17 in alfalfa that’s crazy. We have a John Deere w260 swather and that thing does like 17mph in alfalfa which is still crazy for the amount of power they have. My favorite swather is the Massey Ferguson ones because the steering is steady on them they aren’t really fidgety and your passes don’t look like you were drinking on the Job if you know what I mean

It's a node dude. 🇬🇸🇱🇷

I'm from Europe, not from this industry but love it! But have to say that I have some land, horses etc but all that as just a hobby :)

Have you ever used the Circle C conditioner rolls? They may solve some uniformity drying problems.

Are you guys close to Pala Verda Nuclear Plant? I worked there about 13 years ago. Hello from North Alabama!!

What determines when you cut the hay? On the dairy farm I grew up on in Iowa we wanted it cut at or before 10% bloom.

Can you show us how you irrigate the field?

We called this type of a bailer a Freeman wire tied bailer

Trevor, a cow has 4 stomach's 🤣

What kind of grass was it on the rotation. I missed you saying what it was.

Do you have any insect problems and what insects give you problems? How many acres are you losing with the dividers in the fields if you did use GPS and could harvest it all?

I bale a fair amount of hay , all in the east. I'm curious, how do keep the green hay from molding? Do you spray a fungicide or is it dryer than the video shows?

Cow have 4.

How fast are you mowing hay?

do you have issues with wildlife when cutting hay? thanks.

I was just thinking your fertilizer bill must be crazy with the cost of fertilizer today never mind with the cost of fuel Anybody farming big or small feels the cost of farming May I say OUCH SAY IT AGAIN SAY IT AGAIN OUCH

Why did Brain put the garbage in the outher swath row

Wouldn't mind working for you

Trevor You said 90# and it’s average is 100?

What’s that 3 string monster bale model?

Cows have 4 stomachs.

Cows are actually born with 4 stomach compartments.

Master baler...I bet he's glad you guys aren't fishermen ...just sayin. Thanks for the great vids. Keep an old man entertained.

Smells like MONEY!!!

GPS would be hands free, less fatigue.

RU-vid cant handle your good view :'D

Not the knuckle on the ryegrass. Its the joint

AC and heat, bluetooth stereos, phones, ipads, GPS, tv, power steering, auto pilot, computers, monitors, wow I can't list everything. TO MAKE HAY?

Cow has 4 stomachs

A cow has four stomachs

You joke about that green dye, but we buy western Timothy for our guinea pigs and that stuff is died green. Not even bailed just stuffed into a bag.

Trevor wouldn’t be nice to have auto steer on your conditioners I’ll bet your workers would appreciate it

Cows have 4 stomach not 3