ford1956tractor
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Live in E. Tn and battling wet ground to get orchard grass hay field reseeded. Burnt down last week but wondering about worst case what I could plant next Spring?
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grandpa Love
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We live in central Al. Crazy how wet this summer had been. More tropical rain this week.
it will depend on what you are feeding the hay to. In northern Minnesota farmers might plant oats inseeded with orchard grass or alfalfa and timothy. When the oats start turning from green to yellow they would cut that for hay and bale it. Cows eat it well as it has enough partially filled grains.
MARK ROBKE
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Do you have, or can you rent a no-til seeder? Our county soil conservation service rents them and our extension office also rents equipment. No-til may work this fall if your ground is still sod and it is semi dry. Mark.
Tom in TN
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I live in southern Middle Tennessee. We've had a ridiculously wet year already. We've had 5 inches of rain in just the last two days. It's not supposed to rain today, but Weather.com is forecasting more rain for Tuesday through Thursday of this week.
This has been the worst year of the past twenty for trying to get up my small square bales of hay. I plan to bush hog about 5 acres of hay field since it has gotten weedy and the Johnson Grass has headed out and gotten way too stemmy to bale.
Maybe next year will be better.
Tom in TN
This has been the worst year of the past twenty for trying to get up my small square bales of hay. I plan to bush hog about 5 acres of hay field since it has gotten weedy and the Johnson Grass has headed out and gotten way too stemmy to bale.
Maybe next year will be better.
Tom in TN
Bruce from Can.
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Do you feed this hay to cattle, or is this hay to be sold for horses? There are plenty of options for making cattle hay, several different grasses like Orchard grass, Reed Canary grass and even Sorghum will put up a pile of feed. Alfalfa and Red Clover are my favourite hay to feed milking cows because of the high protein content. If you are selling your hay in small squares into the horse market, then weather is your boss, but if it is hay for cattle, high moisture, big round plastic wrapped silage bales is a very good answer. Getting lush hay dry can be a challenge, even in good years. Practically impossible on wet years, but wet wrapped bales let you make good quality feed, even when weather won’t.
Before I did wet wrapped hay, I used a hay mow dryer. And stacked small square bales in the barn on the dryer. Bales were very heavy to handle going into the barn, but they would dry, and weighed about a third less when fed out in winter.
Before I did wet wrapped hay, I used a hay mow dryer. And stacked small square bales in the barn on the dryer. Bales were very heavy to handle going into the barn, but they would dry, and weighed about a third less when fed out in winter.
John in Md.
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No til orchard grass and timothy ASAP and frost seed red clover in January or early February, should make good stand of hay.
ford1956tractor
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I do sell to horse people who are very particular about hay quality and any mold. Extremly hard this year to cure dry hay on top of wet ground.
I need to do tillage on ground to smooth the field so i guess I'll hope I can get a dry window before it gets to late to sow.
I need to do tillage on ground to smooth the field so i guess I'll hope I can get a dry window before it gets to late to sow.
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