My bad memory
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Topic: My bad memory
Posted By: 200Tom1
Subject: My bad memory
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2019 at 9:07pm
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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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Posted By: Ranse
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2019 at 9:34pm
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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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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2019 at 11:36pm
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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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Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2019 at 8:10pm
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Right Shameless. We always tried to bale it when it looked half dry and half green.
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Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2019 at 9:48pm
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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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Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2019 at 5:19pm
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What happened with the " oat hay" ??
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