Today they started baling up the oats and peas they planted with the new alfalfa seeding this spring. This will be good hay for the dry cows and big heifers instead of alfalfa hay. They are healthier with a lower protein hay, so they don't get overly fat. Garry tells me there is a lot in the field, there will be many more bales than the second cut alfalfa. They cut it last week so it would dry over the weekend, with the oats it's a heavier, thicker stem to dry into hay. He tells me the pea plants/pods were pretty dry when they cut it. Garry was thinking they might make have to make silage with it, but it's hot and dry in Ukraine now. He says the students are mostly over the sunburns they got last Monday at the beach.
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| The corn is growing |
Today they were switching the water pump from the big cornfield to the small alfalfa field next to where they are baling the oats and peas. At least while they are watering with the "gun" they aren't reconnecting sections of waterline that have blown apart from water pressure. Garry said he still has some to reconnect before turning the water back on the cornfields. It gets really muddy where the water was going full blast where it comes apart.
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| Still one missing here |
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| Maybe next time |
Thursday afternoon I'll be going from Winnipeg to Montreal to Amsterdam? to Kiev, barring a delay that will mess it up, I'll be in Kiev a couple hours Friday afternoon (my flights are only an hour or so apart, but you lose eight hours between Manitoba and Kiev) and take the evening train to see Garry before midnight. He should be done haying by then.
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