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Timing hay harvest can be about as much art as science, but Bill Wilson, who makes hay on his farm near Little River, Texas, says the key is relative humidity. ... Wilson offers a rule of thumb for harvesting hay: ... Home » Humidity said key to harvesting hay...
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southwestfarmpress.com/mag/farming_humidity_key_harvest...
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Frequently asked questions (and answers) on growing harvesting, and storing hay, for small farms. ... The most important invention of the last two thousand years was hay. In the classical world of Greece and Rome and in all earlier times, there was no hay. Civilization could exist only in warm climates where horses could...
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www.sheepscreek.com/rural/haying.html
www.sheepscreek.com/rural/haying.html
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Hay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hay is a generic term for grass or legumes that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal feed, particularly for grazing animals like cattle, horses, goats, and sheep. Hay is also fed to pet...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay
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･ 1 Cut the crop with the use of a mower. This lays the crop in rows to dry in the field. A mower can be... ･ 2 Rake the hay into rows. The rake moves the mowed row across the stubble or soil surface creating narrower... ･ 3 Gather the hay....
http://www.ehow.com/how_2093058_harvest-hay.html
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Harvesting Hay: The Early Years; Part 2; by Pat Browning ... Baling made harvesting hay quicker which, in turn, reduced the risk of having hay down when the rains came -- unless you were just plain unlucky. And you had to remain ready to "make hay when the sun shines." This meant doing repairs and preventive maintenance...
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www.ytmag.com/articles/artint123.htm
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Farmers often grow hay and forage crops on ground too rough, steep or unsuitable for row crops. ... Harvesting hay is an important farm job. Doing it right is the key to a better crop and safer working conditions. Equipment that is running properly will speed the harvest and help to reduce accidents.
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www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/2349.htm
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Just because hay lodges, does not mean that it will ‘smother itself.’ ... However, harvesting this combined first and partial second growth will interrupt the development of the second growth and likely slow its eventual regrowth. So, there may be a slightly longer interval between your first and second cuts this year.
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www.extension.iastate.edu/CropNews/2008/0612SteveBarnha...
www.extension.iastate.edu/CropNews/2008/0612SteveBarnhartMarkHanna.htm
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Tall fescue has a reputation of being poor hay, but most of the reasons for the reputation is the haymaker, not the grass. ... The secret of quality fescue hay is adequate fertility & early cutting. Fescue hay should be cut no later than May 21 in this area. Cutting the grass for hay at this stage also results in lower...
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extension.missouri.edu/extensioninfonet/printarticle.as...
extension.missouri.edu/extensioninfonet/printarticle.asp?id=6051
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If we are harvesting hay from paddocks in a rotational grazing system, there are again two different approaches to determining where hay is harvested. One approach is to designate certain paddocks at the beginning of the season to be harvested for winter feed.
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extension.missouri.edu/agconnection/newsletters/is-98-0...
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