Second-cutting fescue makes quality hay when stems and seed heads were cut earlier. Farmers cutting fescue hay don’t get many second chances to make quality hay. This is a one-in-five year, says Craig ...

FARGO - Now is the time to start cutting hay, North Dakota State University livestock and rangeland specialists advise. Although hay usually isn't harvested for the first time for another two weeks, ...

Mid-Columbia hay farmers are looking at a solid year as they prepare for their fourth cutting of alfalfa this week. At Manterola Farms north of Pasco, David Manterola plans to start cutting his fourth ...

Colorado—In the July 9 report, compared to last week, trade activity and demand light to moderate. Northeast Colorado second cutting alfalfa harvest underway, with oat hay harvest to begin soon.

Davidson said most hay in the region is a combination of alfalfa and grass, and the optimal time for a first cutting is when the alfalfa is at one-tenth bloom. That’s causing local hay producers to ...

The rain, flooding and severe weather that’s plagued the Midwest in recent weeks has delayed the first alfalfa cutting in many regions. Very few fields were harvested before the extended wet period ...

The alfalfa scissors cut program is nearing completion for this year. The University of Minnesota Extension is working again this spring with the Central Minnesota Forage Council, cooperating farmers ...

TOWNER, N.D. -- When I was in college, an animal nutrition professor always called alfalfa "the king of hay." Whatever you measured -- crude protein, relative feed value, taste, smell, bovine ...

WALLOWA COUNTY, Ore. — With the rains apparently done for a while, Wallowa County farmers are making hay while the sun shines, as they mow their first cutting of alfalfa. “It looks like we have a ...

Although it seems like winter was only a few weeks ago and spring planting was just completed, it’s already time for the first hay harvest of the year. Wilma Trujillo, agronomist for the Colorado ...

The shortage of horse quality hay in Minnesota has many owners purchasing hay from outside Minnesota and the Midwest. Along with this comes the risk of purchasing alfalfa hay infested with blister ...

Colorado—In the July 21 report, compared to last report, trade activity good on very good demand for all hay markets. Horse hay sold steady. Trade activity increased in feedlot and dairy hay markets ...