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What if there’s a drought?
Recent rains have eased drought concerns in the Southeast, but farmers should remain prepared for sudden dry spells with solid grazing and feed strategies. Diverse pastures and summer annuals like sorghum-sudangrass and pearl millet offer resilience when conditions shift.
Staging Winter Annuals
Winter annuals don’t make sense for every operation, but there is a large percentage of us who should be utilizing them to reduce our hay feeding bill and to increase the quality of forage our animals are grazing during the winter.
What’s the best time of day to make hay?
The best time of day to cut hay is a balancing act between maximizing the nutritional quality and store-ability of the bales. During the day, the plant undergoes the process of photosynthesis, or production of carbohydrates- what we know better as ‘sugars’. However, these sugars are produced at a rate faster than the rate at which…