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Cutting Johnsongrass hay in drought conditions.
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<blockquote data-quote="Arnold Ziffle" data-source="post: 46014" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>If you really need to cut it now I think you should first take a representative sample and have it tested for prussic acid and also nitrate poison, assuming you have a testing facility nearby that can give you the results in quick order. I had a lot of it a few years ago that grew in such terribly dry weather that I had decided to just shred it and wait for rain and regrowth, convinced that it would have one or both of the poisons. But at the last minute I decided to run a sample over to the test facility, and it tested OK. Had it baled quickly thereafter and fed it without any harmful effect. If my memory serves correctly, the prussic will dissipate from cut hay with the passage of ample time but the nitrate will not (or maybe its the other way around).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnold Ziffle, post: 46014, member: 43"] If you really need to cut it now I think you should first take a representative sample and have it tested for prussic acid and also nitrate poison, assuming you have a testing facility nearby that can give you the results in quick order. I had a lot of it a few years ago that grew in such terribly dry weather that I had decided to just shred it and wait for rain and regrowth, convinced that it would have one or both of the poisons. But at the last minute I decided to run a sample over to the test facility, and it tested OK. Had it baled quickly thereafter and fed it without any harmful effect. If my memory serves correctly, the prussic will dissipate from cut hay with the passage of ample time but the nitrate will not (or maybe its the other way around). [/QUOTE]
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