I have heard some of y'all mention brome hay before but what exactly is it? Does it make good hay and what does it yield? How does it compare to orchard grass? The reason I ask is I picked up a new customer today that bought 300 bales of my oat hay, she mentioned she had been having brome hay...
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.
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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...
My hay operation is small, (vegetables are our primary crops, but started putting up hay bc we always had the equipment and the hay works in nicely with rotations) approx. 30 acres and do all small squares. Straight alfalfa, alf mix and recently tried a little timothy too. The first year we didn't run any sort of preservative.
We're considering wrapping our first cut that is almost impossible to bale for dry hay. We do not want inline wrapper. What are the decent lower cost wrappers? Just want fairly simple machine. I'll be following up asking advice for making sure we get it baled/wrapped in good condition...