Harvesting hay to feed our cattle. What makes for high quality alfalfa hay.

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Paul discusses how our recently harvested hay will be used to feed our cattle. We go over how our hay is stored to be used through the winter, grown to be a healthy option for our cattle, and harvested.

Not all alfalfa hay is created equal, and the hay harvested to feed horses has a different nutrient profile than hay that is grown for cattle.

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I learned a ton just listening to this fellow talk about hay variants, inputs, harvest times, and implications to animals digestive tracks. Thank you!

winkdinkerson

seeing you be upset about the noodles but then immediately going to improve them is amazing and inspiring to me! i would've given up but you didn't and i really respect that! I love your videos. And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

sarah_farm

You guys have it down to an art be great to see more videos of yours cheers

Tommy-vhxj

Interesting. Here in NY, generally hay gets higher in quality- and lower in volume- with each subsequent cutting.

First cut has by far the most volume, and is often pretty coarse. Due to our wet springs, it grows like mad, early on. Not uncommon for it to be overripe, too, simply because it wasnt dry enough to make hay at the optimum time... Summers tend to be warm, dry, and humid- and temps rarely go lower than the 60s at night. So it grows slower, and puts more energy into producing leaves and flowers than stems. Grass especially.
Third cut will be rocket fuel. IF you get it.

Many farms will cut more often- esp for haylage. We always had oats to combine( and some wheat for extra $), then soybeans, corn silage, then feed corn. So extra cuttings had to be worked into that schedule. Fall can be either warm and dry-ish- or wet, wet, wet. Not that big a deal if its for silage- but for dry bales... Good luck!

pyroman