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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1270757" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Alan, I hate to disappoint you but one of my neighbors just mowed his fourth yesterday. He doesn't have better soil, grass, or climate than you do. He does have three things you probably don't have. Irrigation, real handy this year as dry as it has been. Plenty of nutrients in the form of dairy manure. But most importantly a round baler and wrapper to make haylage. The first cutting around the first of May and every 28 days after that. I know 6 or 8 people who do this and they get 6 cuttings a year of real good feed. </p><p></p><p>Steve Franson who is a forage research scientist from WSU, tells me that once our cool season grasses set a seed there is a hormone that gets sent through out the plant telling it to stop growing for the year. So if you are cutting hay like most people around here in late June or early July it isn't coming back no matter what you do. Getting that first cutting off in early May really sets you up for successive cuttings. And early May cutting in western Washington or Oregon really calls for wrapping the bales. I have another neighbor without irrigation who got two good cuttings this year because he wrapped that first cutting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1270757, member: 498"] Alan, I hate to disappoint you but one of my neighbors just mowed his fourth yesterday. He doesn't have better soil, grass, or climate than you do. He does have three things you probably don't have. Irrigation, real handy this year as dry as it has been. Plenty of nutrients in the form of dairy manure. But most importantly a round baler and wrapper to make haylage. The first cutting around the first of May and every 28 days after that. I know 6 or 8 people who do this and they get 6 cuttings a year of real good feed. Steve Franson who is a forage research scientist from WSU, tells me that once our cool season grasses set a seed there is a hormone that gets sent through out the plant telling it to stop growing for the year. So if you are cutting hay like most people around here in late June or early July it isn't coming back no matter what you do. Getting that first cutting off in early May really sets you up for successive cuttings. And early May cutting in western Washington or Oregon really calls for wrapping the bales. I have another neighbor without irrigation who got two good cuttings this year because he wrapped that first cutting. [/QUOTE]
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