Posted by Mark Robke on March 06, 2015 at 09:24:32 from (75.89.158.62):
In Reply to: Haylage #1 posted by WIZZO on March 06, 2015 at 06:25:35:
We also call it haylage and/or baleage.As was said in a reply to your previous post,most guys here use the inline wrappers.But the hay would be less mature(more greener) than what you have pictured here.The fermented hay that gets fed smells almost good enough to eat for yourself!Our area was a large tobacco producing area combined with beef cattle production.The few dairies are even fewer now. Tobacco is less too.Our land is hilly to rolling,with good soil on our ridge tops,where hay and tobacco is grown,and the hillsides are grazed.As tobacco WAS THE CASH crop and production declined, to help farmers increase profits in other ways our county bought an inline wrapper to help farmers to increase production of cattle.The county also had cost share on hay storeage barns because most hay was rolled and stored outside.But,with the amount of rain that we get,by feeding time the rolls were degraded on the 6-8" outer layer which amounts to about a 1/3 of the bale.By cutting hay early when it is in peak nutrition wise,but the weather is harder to get hay cured, and wrapping it,you can get better hay for cows and, more hay.And by storing unwrapped rolls in the barn more and better hay also. And you might get an extra cutting of hay since you did not have to wait til June to cut the 1st cut. The land in your pictures looks a lot like land here in our area=rolling ridges with thick hay.Mark
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