Looking to redo my hay field next year, so I picked up tillage and seeding equipment (plow, cultivator, disc, 6200 drill), but have a couple questions from info I've gotten. One farmer said I should plant a cover crop year (straight oats), cut it green at the end of the year, then the next year...
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But then, you also aren't running the same field year after year in grass without regular roundup treatments or something equivalent. For us permanent hay guys, short of nuking a field and starting over, we can get some cumulative broad leaf and annual grass challenges.
Weed control for pasture and hay field | Hay & Forage Forum
Has anyone calculated it? Also, do you have the software to do so? I hand-calculated my gross profit (before fuel, payments, insurance, etc.) and was disappointed. Unless I did something wrong, I'm looking at about $220/acre/yr. (what I sold hay for per acre for the year). Majority of hay was...
Gross profit per acre on hay production | Hay & Forage Forum
Things i learned this hay season… hay season is the most stressful thing i look forward to all year I’m really glad i clean out the baler after each use If a hydraulic line runs thru a hidden space (like the tongue of a baler), that’s where it will leak Modern tractors don’t run without...
A couple of decades ago horse owners would not consider oaten hay (it made their horses too hot) and wheaten hay was the benchmark, now there are only die-hard pockets that want wheaten hay. Pony owners will buy grass hay, some horse owners too but only a few. At time of hay production the air moisture levels vary widely during the day and night.