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Northeast Missouri | Another way to think about this...
Not much benefit in tedding grass hay if the top of it is still wet, as you would be mixing that damp top hay with the wet hay underneath. Also, with the dew on, you'd be spreading wet hay onto wet ground (assuming the tedded hay will be spread wider than your mowing swath), making drying take longer.
So at a minimum, let the dew dry off of the top of the swath before you ted it....as mentioned, usually around noon if the sun is out here in north Missouri.
By the way, if this question is from my neighbor Janine (a wild guess; probably wrong!), you probably know that you just got a sprinkle on your hay field--I can see it from the house--but it will be dried off enough to ted in a half hour or so.
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Tedding rained on grass hay
