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<blockquote data-quote="novatech" data-source="post: 826748" data-attributes="member: 5494"><p>I do not know what grass you have at this time in your hay field. Being north of my area I would assume you still have winter/cool season grass in the hay field. If this is the case then grazing it should do very little harm if any. In our area we have annual rye which has naturalized in the hay fields and pastures. Annual rye scavenges nutrients unused by the hay. By grazing it the nutrients are recycled back into the soil for the hay crop to use.</p><p>agmantoo; By pugging the soil I assume you mean packing. I can see where this would be true if there was not ample cover on the ground. If there was not, it is not at the stage where it should be grazed anyway. With the proper amount of grass cover for grazing the live grass is pushed into the soil (when wet ) so doesn't this actually have the opposite effect by adding organic matter into the dirt causing the soil to improve? I have seen this done by people using intensive grazing systems with no ill effects. An extreme example of this is by observing what happens where people feed hay on a regular basis. Those mud holes become the area where the grass grows the best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novatech, post: 826748, member: 5494"] I do not know what grass you have at this time in your hay field. Being north of my area I would assume you still have winter/cool season grass in the hay field. If this is the case then grazing it should do very little harm if any. In our area we have annual rye which has naturalized in the hay fields and pastures. Annual rye scavenges nutrients unused by the hay. By grazing it the nutrients are recycled back into the soil for the hay crop to use. agmantoo; By pugging the soil I assume you mean packing. I can see where this would be true if there was not ample cover on the ground. If there was not, it is not at the stage where it should be grazed anyway. With the proper amount of grass cover for grazing the live grass is pushed into the soil (when wet ) so doesn't this actually have the opposite effect by adding organic matter into the dirt causing the soil to improve? I have seen this done by people using intensive grazing systems with no ill effects. An extreme example of this is by observing what happens where people feed hay on a regular basis. Those mud holes become the area where the grass grows the best. [/QUOTE]
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