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I’ve also been thinking about ways to make hay efficiently and neatly using my team of horses in the future. I really do like the convenience and ease of feeding small square bales.

Does anyone have a ground driven baler that they use? It seems like a lot of the information I can find says that it would require at least four horses to pull just the baler, and another two to four if you want to pull a wagon behind them as well. But then I found this video that has only two horses pulling a ground driven baler with a small wagon behind it as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUliVHKyETc

Now, the wagon doesn’t seem to have any hay on it in the video, so who knows. But even if I could pull a small ground driven baler with horses and let the bales drop, then come back and pick them up in small loads, I’d think that might be the way to go.

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More GMO crops are not going to save people from starving, and in the long term, if they’re not thoroughly tested and evaluated, they could actually contribute to starvation through adverse affects. Infertile livestock, for example.

The reason for the starvation we have in this world is political. The means and resources to produce the food that is required by the world’s population exists, it’s just not distributed/utilized due to greed, corruption, and ignorance.

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Fence laws?

My family’s been farming here in NY for 40 years and the only fence law regarding farm fencing that I know of is this tried and true one:

Good fences make good neighbors.

It’s really true, too. When my neighbor’s six Percherons are in my field/ horse shelter messing with my horses, I don’t think too kindly of my neighbor…

In fact the only fence law I know of is the one about every swimming pool having a fence around it. But who knows, maybe there are some and no one knows about them/enforces them.

I’m curious now, what kind of fence laws do they have in other states?

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@Jean 25820 wrote:

Welcome! Mini driver here too. Do you allow visitors?
Jean

Hello Jean. We’re always happy to have people visit us! We’ve got four mini’s and one mini jack donkey (hoping to have some mini mules at some point). I do have to add the caveat that we’re still cleaning up/tearing down/building things, though, and slowly, so some places on our farm just look like a big mess! Anyway, PM me if you’d like to come by and we can work out the details! We’ll have Jacobs lambs in June, they might be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen…

– Sean

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@dominiquer60 25808 wrote:

Welcome fellow Upstater,

Feels good to have more company from Eastern New York:)
Montgomery County is beautiful, I was seriously considering some land in Ames before I got engaged. Your fillies are gorgeous, I look forward to seeing them progress with you. Stop by the Schenectady Greenmarket sometime, we’re there every Sunday. Good luck with your CSA and everything else, sounds like a nice variety of things going on at your place.

Be Well,

Erika

Thanks for the welcome, Erika! We usually do produce dropoffs on Sundays in Albany, so maybe we’ll stop by the Schenectady market sometime.

– Sean

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@near horse 25807 wrote:

Hi Sean,

Welcome, or maybe I should say “welcome back to draft animal power”. Be sure to take full advantage of all the experience gathered here on DAP as well as those teamsters who are in your area of NY. There are plenty of helpful folks from DAP in NY. Where are you in upstate NY?

Geoff

Hey Geoff, thanks for the welcome! I’m located about halfway in between Albany and Utica just north of the Mohawk River.

I’m a member of our local Draft Horse club, plus I’m surrounded by Amish (I’ve got a wheelwright and harness maker within a mile!), so I’ve got lots of people to ask for help with things thankfully, because I’ll probably need it. We used tractors for just about everything when we were dairy farming.

– Sean

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