The saying is that rain makes grain but rain also makes hay. The problem is that rain also makes it tough to make dry hay.

As a one-man operation with rain about every other day and very high yielding first crop of hay, this is a year for wrapping. At least first crop. 

Gathering a lot of bales and moving them to the wrapper seems to be the weak link time wise. The 7610 carrying 2 bales at a time helps. Wrapping has gone well. The remote control on the Anderson wrapper let's me steer the wrapper from the tractor.

These bales are at about 40% moisture and had to sit out overnight but should make good baleage. I usually make the bales about 5' x just under 6' diameter but these are heavy and went 5 x 5. Maybe we can make some dry on the second crop. In any case, very thankful after being so dry and short of hay last year.

While gathering bales I was thinking about the difference in labor these days compared to making this amount of tonnage in the past.

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