Every summer we try to put up as much hay as we can to feed during the winter months. This summer we've been blessed with an abundance of hay crops. The grass we're cutting here is called Bluestem. We've already made 400 big round bales of Bermudagrass hay, so our cows will be nice and happy this winter.
Believe it or not, I got to do some sewing last night! I found my sewing machine and got to work on some string-blocks that my guild members made. Have GOT to get some youth-sized quilts together..soon!
Every summer we try to put up as much hay as we can to feed during the winter months. This summer we've been blessed with an abundance of hay crops. The grass we're cutting here is called Bluestem. We've already made 400 big round bales of Bermudagrass hay, so our cows will be nice and happy this winter.
I had help taking pictures and they just begged to have their picture made too. DC and Rusty are always in the middle of everything on the farm! 
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Your pets are soo cute!! That haying looks like a BIG job!!
Hay there is a cat in that hay.
I hay not baled into squares anymore? We always got the square bales and I had to give a flake in the morning and a flake in the evening to each of the horses.
That hay looks like it goes on forever! DC and Rusty are so cute. I think your new garage door looks great, too!
That's a whole lotta hay! And happy cows is a good thing. Love the furry friend portraits too.
And congratulations on getting your kitchen sorted out!
That's a whole lotta hay! And happy cows is a good thing. Love the furry friend portraits too.
And congratulations on getting your kitchen sorted out!
How many times a season do you cut your grass hay? Just once? And you are not harvesting it for seed? It must be similar to our orchard grass/timothy grass hay here. But that is mostly grown for "horse" people :) Long story! Our grass hay in this area is bailed after it is combined for the seed- mostly used as a filled with the alfalfa and fed during the winter months when the temperature is so cold. Wheat harvest is going well. Prices here are great, hubby can not remember the last time prices were so good. Red wheat this year we sold just a little @ 7.06 (last year we sold it for 5.45) and white wheat we sold a little as well @ 6.61! Just needed a little $$ now. That's the nice thing about wheat versus grass seed- we end up waiting until the winter months for our harvest money because they have to clean it and they don't start that until summer is over and it is slow. Garlic money usually comes in October. Speaking of garlic, harvest begins on Monday! Yee Haw! TTYL!
Glad you have a little time to sew. Baling hay can be time consuming. LOL
Wow, better summer rains this year! I'm glad you got so much from the fields, and I'm presuming you aren't finished yet.
The wedding pics looked great! I imagine it's a relief that life is settling back to normal. The house is coming along! Not too much longer now.
The hay crop seems to have been good in our area too and the farmers seem very happy with it. Glad your cows are going to be happy too! :) Looks like both DC and Rusty have put in a long, hard day!
Baling hay....it's a love/hate thing. ;) Looks like your helpers put in a full day too.
What kind of youth quilts are you makin? Do you need some blocks? Our Fair is in a couple weeks, but I can send you some afterwards. :)
That looks just like my Chocolate Lab! I enjoyed your site. I recently started a new blog called Common Sense Agriculture, Conservation and Energy. Stop by sometime and take a look.
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