This year's hay harvest yielded about 11 tons of grass hay off of our 7 acre field; the wonders of adding a load of fertilizer!! The harvest was delayed and then interrupted by unusual late June and early July rains. This year has been quite wet. But we got 'er done. We both swath and bale our field and the field of our neighbor (using his tractor to run the baler). Then the neighbor helps with loading both ours and his hay into the respective barns. We did hire two hands to help us get all the hay into the barns (about 24 tons total) this year. Ashley does help with the process and is getting to be pretty good at bucking bales; unfortunately, she took the pictures and we don't have one of her. It was a great year, but alot of work!! Here are some shots of the operation.
That is a lot of hay!!! Looks like it was a good year....hope our green chile crop in NM does as well.
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