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larry@stinescorner · Nov 6, 2013

at the big horse farm that has been for sale for a long time,they just baled this hay from the pasture,I think it is the first cutting of this season,what would eat it,? it looks old and brown. just curious It is in central nj

it was baled a few days ago,I pas by there now each day

jon f mn · Nov 6, 2013

Beef cattle will munch on it some and use the rest
for bedding. Not a lot of feed value in grass that
old but it's better than nothing.

JayinNY · Nov 6, 2013

Prolly for mulch hay for construction jobs or be good fir
bedding.

dhermesc · Nov 6, 2013

Cutting and baling it will at least make it decent for next year - but cutting it this late didn't do the grass any favors.

With all the decent and good hay out there this year they might have some bales for bedding.

larry@stinescorner · Nov 6, 2013

Jay,its that lana lobell horse farm,the price dropped if you still want to buy it!

Tech 7 · Nov 6, 2013

Neighbour here bought some hay like that a few years ago for bedding, short of straw, said his cows wouldn't even lie on it!

Brendon Warren · Nov 6, 2013

If you're in PA, I think a lot of the mushroom farmers use it for mulch. They bale quite a bit of it up my way in NNY to ship that way.

rrlund · Nov 6, 2013

Yep,that's my thought. Mine have never turned down anything that I put in front of them if they could grub through it and lay on what they didn't eat.

GeneMO · Nov 6, 2013

Back in the mid 1970's the Universities did research on injecting Nitrogen (Anhydrous Ammonia, NH3) into straw. If cattle feed on straw, or anything you can get them to eat, along with nitrogen, then they can convert it to protein.

Not sure it was all that successful.

Gene

casecollectorsc · Nov 6, 2013

In the cold of winter, anything to make a turd!!

brushbuster · Nov 6, 2013

when I was a kid a farmer had a field of corn stocks, white top, broom sage and other trash weeds, Dad bailed it, they were so heavy took two men to load it on a wagon. farmer said his mules would eat it. we also bailed an old hay stack in the same field, took three of us, one on the stack, one feeding bailer and one stacking the bales longest day of my life.

Adirondack case guy · Nov 6, 2013

I'm with Brendon. Looks like bedding for the Mushroom growers to me also.
Loren, the Acg.

donjr · Nov 6, 2013

Had an old black farmer used to live across the roar
from me. We had some hay that got rained on for
several weeks after cutting, and I was chopping it
up with a flail chopper and blowing it out of the
windrows it was in. Old Bill says he wants it, so
we gave it to him. Asked him what he wanted it for-
he says his cows will eat it before snowballs.....

Dr. Walt · Nov 6, 2013

My Goat would eat it, she likes the brown stuff,
except 1 bale would last her about 6 months. LOL

Doc

Traditional Farmer · Nov 7, 2013

I cut and baled in square bales some hay like that last year for bedding in the goat barn and the goats ate most of it.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 7, 2013

Don't cows eat just about anything?

rockyridgefarm · Nov 7, 2013

They say cows will starve to death on a belly full of CRP hay, but that didn't stop people from buying it for 150-180 a ton last year.

Another thing it may be used for is fill in a dairy ration. The alfalfa hay is so hot that it needs to be cut with low value feed. They usually use straw, but I'm sure CRP hay would do it, too.

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