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<blockquote data-quote="Rafter S" data-source="post: 1336368" data-attributes="member: 21194"><p>As long as you let it dry before baling it will be fine. As dun said, going over it with a tedder will speed the drying process. If you don't have one, just turning it with a rake is better than nothing, or even raking it to bale and waiting a few hours before baling if it's not quite dry. My only experience with hay is here in southeast Texas where we don't have too many problems with getting hay to dry (most years).</p><p></p><p>Be advised that the rain will make the hay darker than you'd expect, so if you'd planned to sell it that may be a problem. How much darker depends on the grass type. I don't have information on what it does to the nutrient quality, but I've observed that rained-on hay seems to be more palatable to cattle. I remember that years ago my father had some that stayed on the ground about 2 weeks before he finally got it up. He figured it wasn't much good, so he rolled it up without string and dumped it in a gully. The cows ate almost all of it, even though there was ample grass in the pasture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rafter S, post: 1336368, member: 21194"] As long as you let it dry before baling it will be fine. As dun said, going over it with a tedder will speed the drying process. If you don't have one, just turning it with a rake is better than nothing, or even raking it to bale and waiting a few hours before baling if it's not quite dry. My only experience with hay is here in southeast Texas where we don't have too many problems with getting hay to dry (most years). Be advised that the rain will make the hay darker than you'd expect, so if you'd planned to sell it that may be a problem. How much darker depends on the grass type. I don't have information on what it does to the nutrient quality, but I've observed that rained-on hay seems to be more palatable to cattle. I remember that years ago my father had some that stayed on the ground about 2 weeks before he finally got it up. He figured it wasn't much good, so he rolled it up without string and dumped it in a gully. The cows ate almost all of it, even though there was ample grass in the pasture. [/QUOTE]
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