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pasture for hay?

Learned many years ago any hay if better then NO hay. May not be worth much but if it makes bedding or compost your still ahead and you get it off the field so maybe something better can grow
 
I find that when I look at a field the weeds really bother me, because they standout from the grass and are usually much taller than the grass.
But if it is a minor infestation of weeds they virtually disappear in the hay because they are overwhelmed by the volume of grass. I'm not talking about baling weeds, I'm talking about a few tall noticable weeds in the grass.

About February 10th, lots of people will be looking for bales, weeds and all.
 
Not sure where you are but I have seen some weedy uncared for fields that I don't think has much feed value, 'cept for goats and such, but that produce a decent 2nd cut as the grasses somehow take them over, or its late enough where the weeds are winding down on rapid growth. Its early enough here with timely rain to get something better than the first cut, just not as much of it. I'm with Rich, no doubt about some hay is better than no hay, plus you may stop a lot of weed seed by cutting.
 
Neighbor just baled a field of mine, I thought it was all weeds, He tossed a broken round bale over to his beef cows They have been eating it fer two days now while they stand on his green grass. He told Me that even My hay is a Ell of a lot better than snowballs in the middle of winter.
 
Believe me it is a myth that goats will eat any thing. I know because we have goats and we have a lot of weeds in there pasture area that they will not so much as touch
 
Yes!

Fair or poor hay is better than no hay.....

The pasture will regrow better with a nice even mowing.

Weeds will be stressed more than the grass, so you win there too.

Paul
 
It is, neighbor has them, across the road, well they ain't stupid ! LOL ! I will say this, the darned woodchucks do a fair amount of weeding around here, its how I can tell if one is in my garden before they touch any plants, pig weed and purslane seem to be on the menu, see it topped off, then you remove the weeds, then they go after the good stuff, just had one do that, he liked the bolted romaine lettuce, very neat about it too, one plant at a time not one bite off each. I saw where he got in, closed it off, he gets in there again, the leg trap won't be so kind, darned things, they can be a pain to get rid of, even get wise to the live trap ! I seen him 6am this morning, but he saw me too, he knows I am after him big time, they are keen about some things and or learn quickly.
 
Ya learned years ago to leave a good number of weeds in the garden. They keep the bugs and ground hogs etc from going after the good stuff. But the weeds can cause the other problem of they grow tall and hide the good stuff LOL
 
You can never win, my corn has purslane and a shorter grass under it, one side of the patch must be ok on Nitrogen, but the other not as good, but this undergrowth keeps the ground moist, but with all the roots, hard to say how its taking from the corn, which is tall enough to shad now. It is a decoy though, now I wonder if I'll have any coon traffic in it when the ears form and start to ripen.
 
Ya this year for some odd reason my Tomato's and peppers which normally do real well are doing super bad. The wife and son are trying to help me save them by putting horse manure around them today before it starts to rain much so maybe that will give them a kick in the back sides to get them to grow like they should. At this point I know there is no way to hurt them by doing so
 
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