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SE MN | Have a 30 acre hay field next to a river. We let it get a couple weeks too old because it was raining every other day and was looking forward to cutting it during this dry spell. We got 6” of rain over the weekend and the field was under water with many sticks and a few full trees laying throughout. It will take a week for the ground to dry enough to go out there and then we will need to run everything down driving around with the skidloader and truck picking up debris.
What to do after that to get second crop coming? Not going to take the new discbine out there for fear of ruining the rolls with a stick. Have an 8’ bush hog and a 12’ stalk chopper. Will the 5’ tall grass be too much for the stalk chopper? Will the stalk chopper suck up what is matted on the ground and cut it off or leave everything not sticking up? I assume we will round bale it to get it off the field and let the bales rot down then spread the compost at some point. We’ve chopped bad hay back on the ground before but the volume of this may smother the regrowth and all the mud in the hay will ruin a set of knives | |
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What to do with flooded hay field
