Balzer Farm - Cutting First Cut Alfalfa 2008

First cutting at Balzer Farm (2008)

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Cutting
• Hay
• Alfalfa
• John
• Deere
• windrower
• swather

[JoshJJA]

No. Blazer is a custom haying operator in Colorado.

Balzer Farm is a mixed operation in NC Alberta.

[JD5830]

That's nice looking Alfalfa.

How wide is that mower?

[JoshJJA]

I believe it's 14 feet, and yes, they put up some really good hay ---- at least for our area.

[JD5830]

Thank You. yeah that looks like it would make great hay. we don't get that much drying weather here, so we usually chop it. the three sunny days in a row we had we made lots of hay though.

How do you like the big square bales?

Great video!

[JoshJJA]

We have the same issue with poor weather, and because of that, we make a lot of silage(baled).

Have you tried hay preservatives to aid with baling dry hay? What about wide swaths?

[JoshJJA]

I really like the big squares, far more capacity than the round baler (simply due to not having to stop to tie), the accumulator is just fantastic for picking bales from the field, we can fill a truck right up to max weight limit, and they take up hardly any room (when stacked) in comparison to the round bales. Just finishing my second year with the squares, and just got a new baler a couple weeks ago, along with a SP windrower.

[jdeere8650]

We have a JD 535 baler, has served us well for a number of years so far, we don't net wrap, due to the fact that its too costly for any benifit it would give us, twine works like a charm, basicly nothing for spoilage over winter, but we don't winter over too many bales.

[jdeere8650]

Okie dokie, time to get caught up on questions (thanks josh, for answering some already)

This was the first cutting vid I made, so its rather crapy, this year will be better :)

[dairyfarmer83]

I'm curious as to what make and model of baler you got. We're currently running a JD 582 (2003) and looking at trading in on a new one. Thanks

[fluvialmotion]

Hey I was curious which model of jd windrower this was. Around here most everyone considers them junk. And while I have been around a couple that were, this machine seems to do well and I have a couple of 3430's around here that I could buy really cheap and for the money and what they consist of and from what some of the literature say on them I don't see how they could be too bad for a couple years till I can buy bigger and newer. What do you think?

[JD5830]

Nice!!

love to see some vid of the SP Windrower in action.

We got a new baler as well.

We got a round baler, mostly because of the cost difference, but we got it with the net wrap option so it only takes about 7 to 9 seconds (to wrap) per bale.

For the amount of hay we make it's a good trade off. all things being equal it would be nice to never stop though.

[JD5830]

Yes we have used preservatives in the past. We don't have an applicator on our new baler yet.. What do you use for a preservative?

wide swaths?

i guess that's probably a no.

what do you do? something other than open the mower up and not make a row??

(our mower is 13'6" and the row ends up about

2'6" to 3'6" wide.)

[cornfarmer4700]

thanks