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Can the hay be turned over to dry...then baled?  We've sometimes had rain in 
June, just in time to ruin our oat hay (when we have grown it.)  We have 
raked it, turned it over to dry, and then baled.
As for anger, did you tell him not to cut?  If so, did he override your 
orders?  Or did you let him be the decision-maker, because he owns a custom 
hay-baling business?  All in all, anger won't help, but I surely sympathize 
with your problem.  It's a tough and unpredictable business, farming is.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucie Hess" <appalucie@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "natrc" <horsesctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <AppDistRiders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:54 AM
Subject: [RC] Hay Woes..


> Ok, I need some moral support.. I'm sitting here with newly cut hay in the 
> field and watching it get rained on. My hay guy cut it yesterday 
> afternoon.. Don't ask me why.. I had been watching the weather and knew we 
> had a high possibility/probability of getting stormns and a lot of rain.
> So to say the least I was surprised to meet him on the road as he was 
> leaving and I was goining to the house.
> So it was cut late yesterday, around midnight we have a huge thunderstorm 
> and it contines to rain all night and has rained on and off all AM.  So 
> almost 12 hours of steady and hard rain..
>
> I'm feeling that my hay is ruined, and I'm just sick.  I had planned on 
> having it  put it up in small square bales, for the horses.  I do have 
> another much bigger field that isn't cut yet, but this is my higher 
> quality hay, fescue, timmothy, lespedeza and some clover.  The lespedeza 
> is thick this year.  I was looking for a significant yield.
>
> It may rain another day too, so if I can't get it to dry quickly, so that 
> I can put it into square bales,  should I just write it off?
> Roll it into big round bales for cattle, or just leave it in the field and 
> turn the horses out onto it with the hay down as it is?  I had planned on 
> turning the horses out as soon as the hay was  put up in the barn.
> It's their summer pasture.
> My next question.. is it appropriate to be angry with my hay guy for 
> cutting the hay when  heavy rain was predicted at over 50% chance???  I'm 
> pretty unhappy, but if it's not reasonable to be unhappy about this.. I 
> guess I'll need to "get over it".  Thanks for any info...
>
> Columbia, Missouri
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