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What is the best way to deal with combined oats swaths?

Dropped oats straw last fall for a cattle farmer to bale! It never dried enuf to bale last fall so it laid out all winter & now I’m trying to decide the best & fastest way to deal with it so I can seed the land! Can’t burn it cuz of fire ***! What is your ideas!

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Verified FBN Member (AB, CAN)

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We heavy harrow, at a high speed in dry conditions, which really busted up the straw (had heavy wheat and barley straw). Or high-speed dis...

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Verified FBN Member (AB, CAN)

Have seen guy's around here using a forage chopper. Just point the spout at the sky and let it scatter. Or V rake and bale, unfortunately n...

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Verified FBN Member (ND)

Have the cattle farmer flip it with a rake. With the 20 mph south winds the last 2 days it’ll be dry enough to bale before the weekend.

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Verified FBN Member (IA)

Cattle farmer doesn't own a rake, or won't spring for the fuel and labor to run a rake for a few hours. If it's the latter I wouldn't be doi...

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Verified FBN Member (SK, CAN)

Ya I wish he was willing for that but doesn’t wanna spend the money to flip it! So thinking he won’t be buying straw from me again!


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We have done this before in same situation. With heavy harrow, adjust your height so that the tines are dangling all the time but low enoug...

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Verified FBN Member (IA)

I was thinking along the same lines with the combine idea, just wasn't sure anyone would want to put that kind if wear and tear on their mac...

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Verified FBN Member (SK, CAN)

Thanx for the tip! Ya I’m getting abit frustrated with these cattle farmers! !


Verified FBN Member (IA)

Can you use a rake to tip it over to dry out the underside like has to be done to dry hay out after it gets rained on? Figured the baler wou...

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Verified FBN Member (SK, CAN)

The cattle farmer would like to bale it but he will not take it wet & I would like to seed it within 2 weeks! Was gonna try spreading it wit...

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Verified FBN Member (IA)

Can you run a forage head on a chopper and get it loaded and off the field? Seems like a stalk chopper would cut it up but still leave it pr...

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Verified FBN Member (MN)

Have used a brush cutter behind tractor to blow it back out. I wonder if a stalk chopper would work?

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