Alan":2yxi20wl said:Most of the hay growers in my area do not fertilize, some do. It's just a feild grass mixture, canary grass, fetch, clover, and other grasses (not sure what's in it). It may be junk, but the cows like it and they come through in the spring in very good shape and throw a healthly calf with lots of vigor. I winter on feild grass and minerals, and worm twice a year. I have no complaints about the quaility of the local hay.
Alan
It is the same here.....except our hay is some mixture of fescue (or bermuda/bahia), timothy, sericea lespedeza, button clover, rescuegrass, johnsongrass, white clover, and rye. Very few cow hay fields are ever fertilized. Most USED to be cow pastures but the owners got tired of fixing the fences and leased them to somebody too bale.