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I just cut some alfalfa that was seeded with oats back in March of this year. The oats were cut and baled for oat hay a month ago. This alfalfa is the thickest and heaviest first year hay I have ever seen. WOW! It is fine stemmed and was so heavy it was tangling in the best part of the field. What is the general protein content of first year alfalfa? Is it generally high or low or mid-range? I'll confess I don't know much about hay protein. Been handling idiot cubes or rolling it for over fifty years but we never tested it because it was mainly for stock cows.
 
I just might get it tested so I know, but what I was after was if first year hay is high or low as a general rule. This hay grew faster than normal for first year hay in this neck of the woods and it seems to have more moisture content than normal. My hunch is it will be low in protein.
 
(quoted from post at 19:10:47 08/06/16) I just might get it tested so I know, but what I was after was if first year hay is high or low as a general rule. This hay grew faster than normal for first year hay in this neck of the woods and it seems to have more moisture content than normal. My hunch is it will be low in protein.
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I expect that the maturity when you mow it is going to have ten times the influence that when you planted it has, just as the effect of temperature and rainfall will also be far greater on growth than whether it is a first or second year stand
 
I grew up in cold country; we never cut first year alfalfa because of the danger of freeze out over winter.
 
We've got atleast a month and a half yet before we gotta worry about cutting too late. Then you just have to wait for a good killing frost and then cut it.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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