Alfalfa

I posted about the haying in the pasture grass fields across the road (https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-training-of-farm-worker.html, https://journeyinamazinggrace.blogspot.com/2020/05/baling-hay.html), but at the same time, Jimmy had cut the fields of alfalfa that are in front of the house:

Jimmy cutting the alfalfa

The alfalfa was tedded (we helped with that process, but no pictures here) and raked into windrows.

Regina baled it into "square" bales.

The bales were gathered onto an "accumulator" that then dumped 10 bales onto the field.

Jimmy collected the bales in groups of 10 and put them onto the trailer.

Based on the size of the trailer, the space remaining would only hold 8 bales, so he needed to split off 8 from the 10 (or 2 from the 10 if you look at it the other way):

... and then put those 8 onto the trailer:

Carl posing beside the completed load

What a job it is -- Jimmy and Regina are on the go all day long. Hay doesn't have a "schedule", Jimmy says that it dictates when you have to work on it. A big job, and unfortunately, not one for which we could provide much help...