Well, last Saturday, we got the first crop of hay off of our field!

It took a baler with out of adjustment knotters, a old Massey Ferguson tractor, a overheating truck and a quad to get 65-70 bales of hay. Pretty good for a first try on a first field!

We mowed the field down with a rotary mower, and raked the swaths into windrows. We then revived a baler that was on the property to bale the hay. Since it was the first year on the field, the area kicked up a lot of dust.

Funny thing though, is this hay did not come from the field that we had seeded. It was one that we had disced, but did not seed. The some that did get seeded had weeds move in, specifically Corn Spurry and Horse Tail. Oh well, we think we can battle them with clover next year.

Almost right after I had posted last time about getting lots of rain, it starts to heat up. really heat up. about mid-July, it got close to 35 degrees Celsius. That slowed down our work while trying to keep cool...