Making hay when there is no sunshine.

The weather is impossible to predict. I look at two weather apps. I have started using CoPilot to help predict. It is still just a guess.

At the beginning of last week I cut 5 acres of Teff and 12 acres of Alfalfa. I had a good ten day forecast. Tuesday afternoon the forecast suddenly charged. There was rain scheduled for Saturday.

I fluffed the hay fields every day. I was able to bale Teff  on Friday. I finished up at 8 pm but didn't stack it as the forecast for rain had been changed to Monday. 

It rained early Saturday morning. 

The only thing hurt was my ego. Never leave hay in the field over night

I am having problems with my BC5070 baler. It is making hump bales. No sending enough hay to the far side of the chamber. Sometimes it looks like there is a little bite out of the bale on the knife side. I have checked the hay dogs and springs. I have adjust the sweep arm. I have also adjusted the sweep arm to plunger timing. I must have not adjusted it correctly. There is an issue.

Above you can see teff bales in the rain.

Sunday t was baling alfalfa and the Goodyear Blimp went over. That was pretty random.

CoPilot AI has given me a chart for this week. Today and yesterday there were showers. It told me to cut anyway. I didn't as last weeks prediction was problematic.

I baled the Alfalfa Sunday. It needed one more day. Some of the bales have gone up to 22-24 percent moisture. I used Conklin ProServe lactobacillus based hay preservative which is supposed to result in fermentation/curing and not mold. We shall see.