I wasn’t able to get a picture of the crew “merging” the rows of alfalfa, but here they are chopping the hay.
The chopper blows the hay into the semi who then takes it to the dairy to be packed into a large pile of feed.
It takes some skill to run at the same speed and stay the correct distance from the chopper.
I’m enjoying a beautiful morning from our front porch.
When I head into town later to take Richard lunch, I find he’s had a problem. The scraper wheel on one of the rows has broken and stopped the whole row from planting. Thanks to our son, Matt, having put together a box of odd planter parts to always have with us, Richard has just what he needs to fix it.
It’s just at an awkward place to work.
This is the row that didn’t plant. Oops!
Getting ready to head into our acres just south of town, we fill up the tractor with diesel fuel.
We make sure the planter is completely filled with seed also. The planter is now folded up to be able to fit down the road.
This is how many gallons we put in the tractor. You do the math on how much that costs! The tractor will hold 180 gallons total.
Instead of taking the seed wagon into town tonight, we just put extra bags of seed into the empty insecticide boxes. It’s an interesting sight going down the road!
I go in later to pick my farmer up late at night and get to see this.
Planting near the dairy in the background.
Time for me to take the seed wagon back to the barn lot.
That’s our little pond in the trees.
The view of home from the middle of the field.
I’m taking a shortcut through the woods.
I think it’s pretty back here.
Coming out of the woods.
On the way to the woods I pass the dairy’s pivot irrigator on our land. They spray their storm water through it onto our fields.
When I get back to the barn lot I see the mower crew is finished cutting the alfalfa.
We have an alfalfa field we planted for the dairy to have feed for their cows. The hay mowers showed up tonight.
They mow it into these piles then another crew will come and merge the mowed rows into a bigger row for the chopper.
Here’s the mower.
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