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Rural/Farm Life

rickford66

(5,753 posts)

5. Lots of new and larger machinery haying around me than in the past.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:07 PM

Jul 2019

It used to be the local farmer with his older machinery and just a few guys. Now it's a dozen or more guys and two or three times the machinery. I'm in upstate NY. I'm surrounded by fields which aren't always left for hay, but they usually get two crops of hay a year.

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