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200Tom1
Orange Level Joined: 03 Jun 2019 Location: Iowa Points: 1142 |
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Posted: 13 Jun 2019 at 9:07pm |
A little help please guys. I've got several acres of oats I am going to cut for hay. I haven't had oat hay for years. It is just showing a few heads. When is a good time to cut it. Dang 70 year old memory doesn't work any better than the rest of me. Just a little alalfafa showing. Will probably cut it high. Thanks guys!
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Ranse
Orange Level Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Location: Tennessee Points: 773 |
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Cut the oats when the heads are in the dough is what I've been told. Not milky or dried hard, the heads need be doughy inside.
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shameless dude
Orange Level Joined: 10 Apr 2017 Location: east NE Points: 13611 |
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I've also heard what Ranse is saying, but we never could get it timed right and did it when it was early grain time. just tough nuff that the seed would stay on the stalk...well most of them anyway! wear a dust mask and long sleeves! try to get a little alfalfa in it too.
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LeonR2013
Orange Level Joined: 01 Jan 2013 Location: Fulton, Mo Points: 3500 |
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Right Shameless. We always tried to bale it when it looked half dry and half green.
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FREEDGUY
Orange Level Access Joined: 15 Apr 2017 Location: South West Mich Points: 5391 |
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Around '84, I was part time help on a neighbors dairy farm. He mowed and baled 5'ish acres of oats that summer that went into the "middle" of the mow with the remaining alfalfa cuttings stacked above. We got down to the oat hay mid-winter, and IF we could lift a bale that wasn't broken with chewed twine, it was literally black with running mice under it!! There was no more oat hay baled after that fiasco LOL!!
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FREEDGUY
Orange Level Access Joined: 15 Apr 2017 Location: South West Mich Points: 5391 |
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What happened with the " oat hay" ??
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