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Many areas of the country have been dry again this past summer, leaving livestock producers with short pastures and declining grass quality. For many operators, hay inventories are critically low.
Assuming fertility is not limiting, and the alfalfa stand is not in decline, the difference between an 8-ton and 12-ton-per-acre crop boils down to water management: simply the right amount at the right time.
Is the switch to drip worth the investment? For decades, crops throughout the world have utilized drip irrigation technology, promoting benefits such as higher yield increases and more efficient water usage.
With rising hay prices, producers are looking to maximize the grazing season, allowing them to feed cattle longer on the cheapest form of feed available – grass.
Feeding high-quality alfalfa hay to dairy cows is vital for maximum performance and efficiency. Alfalfa hay baled with more retained leaves will have a higher feeding value to meet the demand of dairy farms.
Western hay growers have earned the reputation of producing high-quality grass and alfalfa hay. These growers export millions of tons of “dry” hay within the region, across the U.S. and to worldwide ports.
As you know, making good-quality hay consistently in the eastern U.S. is not an easy task. To make it more difficult in southeastern Pennsylvania, small square bales are still very common.
When Chase Holschbach was a little boy, he’d follow his grandpa around the family farm checking on the different crops. His dad worked mostly in the barn, but it was the open fields that appealed to young Chase.
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