Posted by Billy NY on August 09, 2013 at 11:36:19 from (72.226.79.200):
In Reply to: To cut the hay or not? posted by picassomcp on August 09, 2013 at 11:15:51:
I would say the weather will control this, right now, if you have good weather, 18" is fine, take it, and sleep well, you may not get the weather again, if the weather does not cooperate, you really have no choice.
The best scenario I have seen here is applying fertilizer after a 1st cut, we have some fields that do stay moist, and we seem to usually get timely rains, sometimes not, but this field we did in '09 came back with thick yield as about as much as the first cut. I tedded and raked it both times, and bought over 400 bales of it, because of how good it was.
Obviously, soil fertility, PH and rain, play a role in this.
Like I said above, if the weather cooperates right now, if it were me, I would cut it, as like you said, you might just get that chance for a 3rd cutting.
I am a believer in getting that first cut off, in a timely manner, as around here that 2nd chance, say with some fertilizer may help redeem a poor first cut, problem is the darned rains sometimes is so often, you either wait, til its over ripe, like a lot of it was this year, or go for it, and get it off the field, sometimes its a loss, but so is waiting til its tanned out. The farmer I used to help, his son will try and get some in even with narrow windows of weather, sometimes its a loss, or lesser quality, but having cut tedded, raked, and baled those fields after this for a 2nd cut, most times it does pay off with some nice hay. Hay is always a gamble no matter what, some years it goes well, others not.
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