We’ve had so much rain lately that the first cutting of hay
has not been harvested yet. You can’t cut hay and bale it when it’s going
to get wet or you’ll have moldy hay down the road. – not feedable.
Atleast several dry days are needed to get the job done.
You need the fields to be dry to begin with.. then a day for cutting..
then a day for more drying in the sun and then baling day…
and maybe one more day for picking the hopefully
dry bales up off the field and stored in the barn.
We took a ride around the fields last night just before sunset….
We surveyed the gardens for water damage…
so far, everything is holding its own…
however, more rain on the way today and tomorrow.
After all that planting, we’re hoping not to lose hay and vegetable crops.
We farm on a small scale, but I can only imagine the
backbreaking labor and sometimes hardship real farmers
suffer as a result of uncontrollable weather issues.
I finally got him to smile a real smile for my camera.
No easy task.
