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.