To most city folks, “making hay” is simply a phrase that can be defined as “create” or “to bring about.” However, to farmers, “making hay” is a very busy and critical time of the year. Why? Because your fields have to produce enough in order to feed your animals through the winter.
It takes numerous steps and several days to do a field. Here’s a glimpse of what it’s like.
Step 1 – Here’s a field before the grass (hay) is cut.
Step 2 – We’ve cut the hay and it’s drying on the ground.
Step 3 – We rake the cut hay into a windrow.
Step 4 – We bale the hay
All done! It’s picture perfect, don’t ya’ think?!
[…] we’ve talked about before, we make hay in the summer and feed it to the cows in the winter so they have plenty of food and don’t have to dig […]