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<blockquote data-quote="Texasmark" data-source="post: 1516519" data-attributes="member: 27848"><p>Ag schools publish the answer to your question. Coastal Bermuda for one is listed at 30 day intervals to get max bang out of the plant. After that it's just down hill. For me I don't have much in 30 days, more like 60. So I shave off a few points of protein and TDN and all the good stuff for some bulk to fill up ruminant bellies.....but I supplement for other reasons so it's no big deal. </p><p></p><p>The kicker is plant stage. While growing vigorously (in the growth mode) it's tender, succulent, leafy, and full of nutrition. Once the boot forms (seed pod envelope) the plant moves into the mature mode. It gets stemmy, fiberous, and the nutrition goes into the seeds. If the seeds get dislodged during baling (the older the easier for that to happen) you are left with low nutrition fiber, usually consumed as a last resort by animals, and a poor maintenance diet if anything. (Opinion)</p><p></p><p>On timing second cutting, around here it is the desired cut primarily due to noxious weeds that seem to always show their heads, removed with the first cutting of the year. Mine is baled. Only reason to wait till fall is that you have so much hay you can't get to it all in time. Besides, if the rain gods smile on you, a third cutting will be sitting out there by then and will make good hay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texasmark, post: 1516519, member: 27848"] Ag schools publish the answer to your question. Coastal Bermuda for one is listed at 30 day intervals to get max bang out of the plant. After that it's just down hill. For me I don't have much in 30 days, more like 60. So I shave off a few points of protein and TDN and all the good stuff for some bulk to fill up ruminant bellies.....but I supplement for other reasons so it's no big deal. The kicker is plant stage. While growing vigorously (in the growth mode) it's tender, succulent, leafy, and full of nutrition. Once the boot forms (seed pod envelope) the plant moves into the mature mode. It gets stemmy, fiberous, and the nutrition goes into the seeds. If the seeds get dislodged during baling (the older the easier for that to happen) you are left with low nutrition fiber, usually consumed as a last resort by animals, and a poor maintenance diet if anything. (Opinion) On timing second cutting, around here it is the desired cut primarily due to noxious weeds that seem to always show their heads, removed with the first cutting of the year. Mine is baled. Only reason to wait till fall is that you have so much hay you can't get to it all in time. Besides, if the rain gods smile on you, a third cutting will be sitting out there by then and will make good hay. [/QUOTE]
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