Second harvest of hay is likely coming to a close, and with the recent rain a good third harvest should be in the making because adequate moisture is present.
8 articles tagged "hay".
It is that time of year when much cool-season grass and legume hay is being made in Indiana.
Recent conversations with individuals about poison hemlock and cressleaf groundsel, plants with toxicity concerns, prompts me to inform producers and agricultural professionals about the “Toxic Plant Exhibit” at the Southern Indiana Agricultural Center.
Taking large round and large rectangular bales and wrapping them with white plastic to make bale silage (baleage) has become a common practice.
Harvest of cool-season perennial grasses and perennial legumes is beginning. Getting a standing forage crop that measures 75 percent moisture or more to a safe baling moisture of 18 to 20 percent moisture is “easier said than done”.
I received a phone call from a shepherd many years ago.
Much hay has been made in Indiana the last 10 days.
What a year it has been so far! Was there mud as livestock were fed this past winter? Did winter-damaged alfalfa fields occur and did pastures where livestock spent the winter look like a mud volleyball tournament had been played?
