Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Hay Fields

Been a busy summer so far we have been getting plenty of rain. We got our first round bale cutting in May and have just finished our first round of square baling. We have some beautiful coastal pastures and one tifton coastal mix. We have been getting good rain but one storm got us when we did not need it. We lost about 250 bales in that storm. Luckily we started hauling as soon as we started baling that day and were able to get the rest of the hay up and in the barn. We have had some trouble cleaning up a couple of fields where we killed bahaigrass this spring. It was looking good until the nutsedge started coming up. Between nutsedge and dallisgrass I think I would rather have the bahaigrass. Anyway looking forward to the start of our next cutting the grass is greening up fast so it should be another great cutting. One field, one of the tifton coastal mix fields, wasn't even mature but was so thick it made 66 good size bales per acre I was tickled..


-burge

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