Yesterday we put in some bedding for the animals off a field on the edge of the farm. Any kind of tillage on that field was always hard because of the close ledge rock, so we just let it turn into our ‘straw field’. In some ways it’s like a prairie….
One nice thing about New Holland choppers is the Metalert you can get on them to detect metal entering the machine. We really picked out a surprising number of things over the years, from nails to the tiniest little wires. Don’t want the cow’s eating any of that stuff!