Cutting hay

Seen the guys in eastern Iowa cutting hay yesterday. Ist I'd seen this year. Looked like pretty good mix of grass and alalfa. Using a D15 and 7' new Holland conditioner. Darn I been haying since 1956. You'd think I'd learn how to spell alalfa. Anybody else north of the mason Dixon line cutting yet.

I am eastern in Eastern Iowa and wanted to cut Tuesday but the forecast did not cooperate. Looking at Saturday now.

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I was very fortunate with my hay cutting week before last. Got a light shower one evening but not enough to hurt. Put up about 325 small squares and most of that is already sold. Glad I got it when I did. 100% chance of rain for the next 3 days from that Florida storm.

We have had 7.25" of rain in May and that Florida storm is bringing more they say, have to mow the grass about every 5 days so that I am not making hay.

it rains here without it being in any forecast! we had a gully washer here the other day with dime size hail, weather people said wasn't sposed to rain for maybe another week! after it started to rain then the weather people put up severe weather headed our way! LOL looks like it's gonna hit us again, nothing on TV tho….yet!

I had to go to town today to get a couple of RV battery's for the motor home, saw a lot of hay down. I set out on the patio tonight and watched it rain close to 1/2". Was no rain in the forecast. Has that ol Shameless modified that darned ol machine???? Looked like some real heavy 1st cutting. I'm seeing some poisen hemlock showing up in the ditches here. Do any of you guys see it in hay fields and if so what do you do to get rid of it?? Thanks Guys.

Our pastures did not recover well from the cold wet cloudy spring that turned into DRY HOT summer over a week time. Have a lot of tops to the grass but little undergrowth so haying may not happen. Spoke to our renter, he said may just have to put the livestock on it and let them eat rather than bale.

Tom, ya sure it isn't "just" wild carrot / Queen Anne's Lace?  They look very similar...

I'll try.....

Yep....

The Hemlock is near to blossom here now. Queen Anne's will blossom later in the year.
 It seems the hemlock is all over around here. Ditches are full of it. I tried to spray some last year around my daughters place, but it had gotten too far along by the time I got rountuit.
 If I had one of those brush grabbing tree pullers for a skid loader, I might just put it to work on some of that hemlock, it's bout 6 foot tall now and an inch around at the bottom 

Weed Eater is a brand name.  I have two of them.  They are green in color and really good riders.  I've had em for over 20 years.  Only one of em uses any oil.
I don't know if they are still being made or not??
I believe they were made in Canada?