Oooooooo an empty space so I'll pop this in here
We STILL have another 5 acres of standing grass which SHOULD have been small baled hay, but with the weather in August being less than haymaking weather, we're getting rather despeate about what to do. Its on some additional land we rent (so money invested in the rent) and we fertilized it back in early July (more money) and so a fair bit of investment already put into it.
What should we do? Hope for a few days of dry stuff and then make big baled haylage (for speed). Ditto but make small bale haylage (vastly more expensive but could be easier and more profitable to sell), offer it to a local farmer for silage for a pittance
. We can't just chop it down and let it rot, BUT I desperately need the grazing come mid September as its tupping time and I've got 3 different flocks to spread around!
What do you reckon?
We already have 28 big bales of haylage we made in July and so all stocked up with that, but I need about 200 bales of small stuff (hay or haylage) too.
Thanks folks.