I did not know.

[thecfarm]

I did not know that dry grass mows so much better then wet grass. 
Been a wet few months here. I mowed the front lawn and it came out looking great.
Then I jumped on the small tractor and bush hogged the field.
The last time I did it was wet. Then I bush hogged in the rain a couple times. We are way behind on the fields.

[Peter Drouin]

Farmers around here are having a hard time getting the hay in. So wet. Rain today.  

[GAB]

According to the weather personnel in the Burlington, VT area this will be the 26th weekend in a row with at least a trace of rain.  
June in this area is a bad time to attempt to put up dry hay.  If you can get two days without rain you can aim for haylage and hope that you don't cut up the fields.  
GAB

[TreefarmerNN]

Farmers around here are having a hard time getting the hay in. So wet. Rain today.  

We had a great week of hay weather and bearings went out on the mower on Wednesday of that week.  Still waiting on parts, grrrrrr.  But it's back to rainy weather so we aren't losing more hay time.  We mowed some fields with the Bush Hog set very high and will get back to it when the mower and weather permit.

[Resonator]

I heard that some farmers would cut hay in the morning, when there's still a little dew on it. Think they were doing (small) bales, and that it packs a little better. I suppose it would be less dusty too. Also they could set the baler how tightly packed a bale they wanted. Too heavy a bale and the guy riding the rack wagon won't like the tractor man by the end of the day.

[SwampDonkey]

Yes, dry grass is much better mowing. 

Neighbor here has been making hay like crazy. He doesn't have large fields but by the time you cut, let it dry in the sun a bit, bale, haul, store....it takes some time.   

First part of June is always a little damp and cool. But been dry enough this week to get some hay in. June is our best hay up here.

[TreefarmerNN]

I heard that some farmers would cut hay in the morning, when there's still a little dew on it. Think they were doing (small) bales, and that it packs a little better. I suppose it would be less dusty too. Also they could set the baler how tightly packed a bale they wanted. Too heavy a bale and the guy riding the rack wagon won't like the tractor man by the end of the day.

That may be true in the west but if we did that here, with our humidity we'd have bales on fire in a few days or at best, moldy hay.  We always had to watch first cutting hay to get the moisture down both so it wouldn't mold and also so the bales weren't too heavy. 

Baling cornstalks with our round baler could require a little moisture but those were basically dead dry anyway.  Local conditions though make a huge difference.  Even a couple of hundred miles west in Virginia (and a thousand feet higher altitude) means they grow different grasses and treat them differently.

[Resonator]

Yeah, I was out west when I heard that. Around here dry conditions is ideally what they want.