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<blockquote data-quote="inyati13" data-source="post: 1256577" data-attributes="member: 17767"><p>Hay: What is it? It is plants that suck the water and nutrients from our land. I see people let others mow their fields and haul off the hay in exchange for having it mowed. Poor policy! Hauling out that hay is hauling off the most highly valued property a farm is noted for – the essential elements. It is not only N-P-K, it is that and the microelements that are essential to sustain biological units.</p><p></p><p>Now the concept I am building to: To produce good hay requires input. Fertilizer, lime and the other microelements that are rarely replaced by supplementation. They are the result of hundreds of millions of years of weathering of the parent bedrock laid down in primordial oceans that have been gone for millions of years. Therefore, that hay that we work so hard to harvest is a product of geologic processes from before life. And that friends is how I think of hay. It is the most "sacred" component of raising cattle. I sometimes think about abandoning my hayfields and totally buying hay. Better to bring in someone else's land than to haul off mine.</p><p></p><p> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inyati13, post: 1256577, member: 17767"] Hay: What is it? It is plants that suck the water and nutrients from our land. I see people let others mow their fields and haul off the hay in exchange for having it mowed. Poor policy! Hauling out that hay is hauling off the most highly valued property a farm is noted for – the essential elements. It is not only N-P-K, it is that and the microelements that are essential to sustain biological units. Now the concept I am building to: To produce good hay requires input. Fertilizer, lime and the other microelements that are rarely replaced by supplementation. They are the result of hundreds of millions of years of weathering of the parent bedrock laid down in primordial oceans that have been gone for millions of years. Therefore, that hay that we work so hard to harvest is a product of geologic processes from before life. And that friends is how I think of hay. It is the most "sacred" component of raising cattle. I sometimes think about abandoning my hayfields and totally buying hay. Better to bring in someone else's land than to haul off mine. :D [/QUOTE]
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