Know your window.

The problem every hay maker knows

Hay needs three to five good drying days in a row; haylage one or two. Miss the window and the crop is rained on, ruined, or downgraded — worth hundreds or thousands of pounds a cut. So you check three weather apps every morning from May to September, and they still disagree.

How BaleCast works

1. 📍 Pin your farm. One map tap. Every farm gets its own forecasts — not the nearest town's.
2. 🛰️ We watch, so you don't. Every 3 hours BaleCast blends independent forecast models (UK Met Office and European ECMWF) and runs proper drying arithmetic: sun, wind, humidity and rain — not just "chance of showers".
3. 🔔 You get told. When a workable window forms, shifts, strengthens or collapses, it's on your lock screen and in your inbox — with the dates, how many days the job needs, and the last safe day to cut.

What you get

• 🌾 Hay and haylage windows, judged separately
• 📅 Day-by-day outlook showing where the forecast models agree — and where they don't
• 📱 Works as an app on your phone (alerts included), no app store needed
• 📋 Field diary: cuts, turning, bales, grazing, fertiliser and spray records with withdrawal reminders
• 👥 Share your farm with staff and contractors — they get the alerts too
• 📡 Link your own weather station for live at-the-farm conditions

Who it's for

Smallholders making hay for their own stock. Livestock farms juggling several cuts across many fields. Contractors who need to see the window coming before thirty customers ring at once. If you make forage in the UK, BaleCast was built for your weather.