August hay

Agri Power said:
You only told yourself that if the truth be known..
Try and shift that hay to anyone with a horse or donkey they wont be long telling you different.
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I was 13 at the time, but it was all ate.

That being said my father has
been selling hay to folk with all sorts of animals since 1984
 
The hay market always reminds me of the Oats market, all buyers have different ideas what makes good hay.
An old saying in the Oats growers/breeders circles is,
"European horses will only run well on Yellow Oats, North American horses will only run well on Black Oats and Irish horses will only run well on White Oats".
 
Mate of mine made hay in October sometime in the last few years.

You'd starve a donkey on it.... But it was hay!
 
In a many a wet summer gone by ,often Listowel race week came a smashing week with a fair share of straw and hay gathered up .In 1998 I remember distinctly making hay that week from a marsh which was cut 3 weeks earlier went trough 3 acres with a plke shaking it out it baled up beautiful .The round bale silage has thankfully done away with that crack
 
Another one at it...
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Just refuelled after mowing and tedding out 17 acres of grass, wasn't a heavy crop mind. Used exactly 50 litres in total.
 
Baled and wrapped couldn't be done without a can of beer or two. 7e a bale they are making. You would want every penny the work that goes into it
 

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