Hay in the Barn

Well we beat the weather only one scary day. But we got all the hay in the barn. We did not reach our 3000 bale goal but came close with 2752 bales or 86 tons. Now we are selling it out of the barn with the help of my friend Chris who cut and baled it for me. We have already sold 5 tons, and there are people coming to pick up some more. This is my first attempt at farming and I enjoyed all the pain and suffering long nights and days irrigating, taking care of it just like a baby. Praying for rain when it was growing and praying for it not to rain when we were cutting and baling. They tell me that is farming. Here are some final pictures of the hay in the barn. Need any hay come on down and get some.

Farming begins. Cutting of the oats

Well today is the day we started to cut the oats. Boy what a stand we have. I road in the cutter with Chris Seinkwidch for a couple of passes. We also had a end welded on the hay barn so we could use the hay stacker to stack the hay instead of Megan her brother and I did the last time. We just are not as young as we use to be. Can't seem to throw them 60 lb bails over 5 high. The stacker will stack 160 bales at a time 14 ft. tall 8 ft. wide. We hope to have about 3000 bales when all done. There is a good market for oat hay here in New Mexico so I hope to sell most of it only keeping enough for myself to feed my beef. I have enlcosed some pictures of the start and will get some more and post them as we get farther into it. The weather is suppose to be great all week in the uper 80's to high 90's. Before we started to cut. Chris on the first pass From inside the Cutter Starting inside the borders The new end of the hay barn.