Well, I think Im done haying this year

[FarmboyBill]

Took the brush hog out and tried to cut up and spread out the dried up windrows in the fields. Couldn't do it. The 5ft brush hog kept getting plugged up. I could tell it was hard on the H also, so I imagine im going to plow it under before it gets too tall.

[andyd2023]

What kind of grass are we talking about? Did the rain catch you with hay on the ground?

[FarmboyBill]

Sorgum Sudan grass. Yes 2 rains caught me, equaling around 3in. Its been down 3 weeks, and the stuff is ready to cut again at 2ft tall. I tried to brush hog the windrows. That didn't work, the tractor, the H got hogged down.
My boys going to be here tomorrow, Mon and well get his AC WD running, but he wont have the hyd installed for another couple weeks. I was hoping to get it all running tomorrow, and I take the rake out and pull up a windrow just to see if it all worked out, but taint happening.

[rambler]

It's been a tough year. With all the early moisture here, lot of thick grass, and no dry time.

Sounds like you had it raked into windrows and can't get it to dry out now? A wheel rake can pull it out sometimes and put it in a new windrow, let it dry enough to bale the junk to get it out of the way.

If you don't need the hay and its about time to rejuvenate the field, might as well take the opportunity to start it over.

Paul

[idigbeets]

Couldn't get someone to come in and bale it up, and wrap it into baleage if need be? You can have up to 70% moisture then....

[sisterpine]

is sorgum sudan grass a type of hay...please excuse my ignorance. the stuff is growing all over down here. thanks, sis

[FarmboyBill]

Nobody here round does balerage that I know about. Ive never seen it in stacks anywhere.

Haygrazer/Sorgum sudan grass/ gotcha grass, and a could other names it has depending on where your at/from. It is GREAT hay for cows. No good for horses.
It grows FAST, and lefty alone will get up to 10/12ft tall. It is a member of the cane family and as such, the juices are mainly in the stems. It is sweet to cows, but because it is also a member of the Johnson Grass family, but without its bad habit of reeacuring every year, it is better to humans. It will grow until frost. At which time it dies. NO STOCK can eat on it after it has been frosted on, as that creates prussic gas in animals which can be fatal. It is best to take a final cutting off of it, OR plow it under, if it is under 12in tall, before it gets into the 30@s
It is easy to seed, and easy to grow, as it does well during drouths, growing on morning dew. Whereas, with alfalfa clover, we cut it, waited a day, raked it, waited a day then bailed it, That will only work if it is less than 16in high, and you are around where I live. Otherwise, you should wait 2 days, either after you cut it, OR after you rake it,.
If it gets 2ft tall, as mine is now, you should wait 2 days between mowing, AND raking and another 2 days between raking and bailing IF you feel it is needful. IF it gets 3ft tall, You WILL have to put 2 days between each, mowing, raking, bailing. Higher than 3 ft, you will need a crimper to use after raking, or a combination mower crimper when cutting. I think there called Mocos. For Mower conditioner, the conditioner being a crimper.
It can make excellent silage, but since few people deal with silage in here, and I never have, ill leaf lol that to another.