Done, I Hope
As I write this column Monday morning, I am taking vacation in hopes of finishing hay today. If we succeeded, it will be one of the earliest we have finished over the past 50 years. I, like many that put up hay, will be trying to figure out how to get enough up for livestock for the winter because it is so thin this year. Fertilizing for second and third cutting hay will help increase yields. Applying nitrogen fertilizer later in the summer on some pastures and letting it grow to graze in the fall and winter is an option called stockpiling.
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