Like tens of farmers this year I really wasn’t sure we would get the hay in. It was ready at the start of July but it just kept raining 2 days out of 3 and August was no better.

Last Sunday the Met Office and OpenWeatherMap were promising that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday would be dry so I cut the 4 acre field. The grass wasn’t great as it had been standing for weeks but it’ll be good enough for the sheep.

The forecasts were wrong it rained every night and some times during the day. Not too heavy but not ideal, I even tedded in a shower. The forecasters were saying heavy rain on Friday and rain every day thereafter, but Thursday looked OK. If Wednesday was dry we had a chance. Wednesday morning it rained and I thought we had no chance to get it dry enough to bay.

Then the Sun came out mid morning Wednesday and by Wednesday night it wasn’t looking too bad. No rain overnight and although it was overcast on Thursday it was dry enough to bale in the late afternoon. The baler didn’t miss a beat and with the help of 3 friends we manged to get almost all the bales in the barn by 21:30. What a relief.