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blogger Jessica Folkema and her husband, "Dairy Man." This is a
post I’ve been meaning to write at three different points this
summer. Not coincidentally, that is the exact number of times
the Dairy Man and company have cut hay. Now, as we start
thinking about our fourth and final hay cutting of the season,
it’s finally time to explain this crazy process. Get ready for
me to drop some serious ag-knowledge on you.  Three to four
times a summer, I lose my husband to the hay monster.  I’m happy
to say that hay cutting only lasts a few days (as opposed to a
few weeks of corn harvest), but what it lacks in duration, it
makes up for in insanity. During hay cutting, the Dairy Man
routinely sits in a tractor into the wee hours of the night and
never has a break longer than 20 minutes at a time.  Poor, naïve
me didn’t know a thing about hay cutting until this year. The
Dairy Man and I married