You've heard it said that you need to make hay while the sun is shining? Well making hay takes longer than 1 day, and weathermen are only able to tell you what the weather is at that moment even though they claim otherwise. I cut hay on Saturday to clear the ground where the produce beds will be so that we can prep the beds. The weather forecast called for dry sunny weather for 5 days. Once I cut the hay the weather forecast was changed to sprinkles the next day. The next day, which is today, we had rain for about 3 hours. Letting hay get rained on is a big problem. Yield loss increases significantly when alfalfa gets rained on after it's cut. We'll see what the next few days holds for weather. Have to hope for dry windy weather to speed up the drying and get the hay up and out of the field.
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