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<blockquote data-quote="Texasmark" data-source="post: 1617616" data-attributes="member: 27848"><p>Seed heads and stems, plants changing from growth mode to mature making for poor quality.??????? Taking a grass that likes to stem early, like Common Bermuda, Bahia, JG, Foxtail Millet, and Fescue, to name a few of which I am aware, probably could add Switch grass and Love, Blue Stem for a few more, Reading the readily available published reports on what, when, and how, affecting hay quality and cutting when "the boot stage starts to appear", you'd have your mower out every week and all your grass would be lying on the ground as it would be too short for the baler to pick it up, especially if you are rolling. </p><p></p><p>JG runs double digits in food value even with no added fertilizer and cattle are ruminants. Check the cow poop after a couple of days in a JG patch. What do you see, or better yet what do you NOT see. Seeds contain what the main plant may have lost. Stems are small. Cows eat it as a preference vs something that may be a hot-dog grass and they turn their noses up at it and just stomp it to death picking at it.......aka a winter pasture that you worked up investing time and money and they come in and run the fences first, stomping all over everything, then decide that they can't get out so they might as well do something else, so they pick at the winter crop....take a bite and 3-4 steps and 2 bites and run across to the other side thinking a sibling has found something wonderful.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile the JG hayed herd is lying down, eyes closed, merrily chewing their cud and you didn't have to put out all the effort and expense for nothing....especially when you have a wet winter!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texasmark, post: 1617616, member: 27848"] Seed heads and stems, plants changing from growth mode to mature making for poor quality.??????? Taking a grass that likes to stem early, like Common Bermuda, Bahia, JG, Foxtail Millet, and Fescue, to name a few of which I am aware, probably could add Switch grass and Love, Blue Stem for a few more, Reading the readily available published reports on what, when, and how, affecting hay quality and cutting when "the boot stage starts to appear", you'd have your mower out every week and all your grass would be lying on the ground as it would be too short for the baler to pick it up, especially if you are rolling. JG runs double digits in food value even with no added fertilizer and cattle are ruminants. Check the cow poop after a couple of days in a JG patch. What do you see, or better yet what do you NOT see. Seeds contain what the main plant may have lost. Stems are small. Cows eat it as a preference vs something that may be a hot-dog grass and they turn their noses up at it and just stomp it to death picking at it.......aka a winter pasture that you worked up investing time and money and they come in and run the fences first, stomping all over everything, then decide that they can't get out so they might as well do something else, so they pick at the winter crop....take a bite and 3-4 steps and 2 bites and run across to the other side thinking a sibling has found something wonderful. Meanwhile the JG hayed herd is lying down, eyes closed, merrily chewing their cud and you didn't have to put out all the effort and expense for nothing....especially when you have a wet winter! [/QUOTE]
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