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What can I plant for hay this year?
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<blockquote data-quote="Texasmark" data-source="post: 1502689" data-attributes="member: 27848"><p>I have Foxtail as a volunteer crop....no go, no volume. I planted Pearl one year and poor response, low volume also. Last fall I planted Jumbo Rye and Austrian Winter Field peas. Cut them at 30 inches or so, flowers just starting to come out on the peas....very thick, really a mess to try to get dry in the spring. </p><p></p><p>The problem wasn't the peas, was the rye. The stems just wouldn't dry out. Baled them around the first week of April and it was obvious that even though I went to great lengths to get them dry (including running a bush hog over it and several tedder passes). Checked the roots and yes I got the N nodules with no inoculant. I wound up feeding it as it was starting to get hot and mold. Cows loved it.</p><p></p><p>Came back with Johnson Grass.....yes the "weed" and SS. Sprouts are just now sticking their heads up. I am going hay this summer and not do the last cutting, allowing the JG to mature. In the spring I will disc in the seedheads with some fertilizer and probably drill in some more SS. Giving the JG a couple of years to get established, we'll see where we go from there. </p><p></p><p>I'm finding that my quest for volume, especially in early summer maturing crops, is not in my best interest. Very hard to get the required drying for quality hay storage. That and having a perennial crop are the two reasons why I am going to JG. Other thing is it's easily managed and everything but horses love it....I have Fescue and Coastal Bermuda mix for those folks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texasmark, post: 1502689, member: 27848"] I have Foxtail as a volunteer crop....no go, no volume. I planted Pearl one year and poor response, low volume also. Last fall I planted Jumbo Rye and Austrian Winter Field peas. Cut them at 30 inches or so, flowers just starting to come out on the peas....very thick, really a mess to try to get dry in the spring. The problem wasn't the peas, was the rye. The stems just wouldn't dry out. Baled them around the first week of April and it was obvious that even though I went to great lengths to get them dry (including running a bush hog over it and several tedder passes). Checked the roots and yes I got the N nodules with no inoculant. I wound up feeding it as it was starting to get hot and mold. Cows loved it. Came back with Johnson Grass.....yes the "weed" and SS. Sprouts are just now sticking their heads up. I am going hay this summer and not do the last cutting, allowing the JG to mature. In the spring I will disc in the seedheads with some fertilizer and probably drill in some more SS. Giving the JG a couple of years to get established, we'll see where we go from there. I'm finding that my quest for volume, especially in early summer maturing crops, is not in my best interest. Very hard to get the required drying for quality hay storage. That and having a perennial crop are the two reasons why I am going to JG. Other thing is it's easily managed and everything but horses love it....I have Fescue and Coastal Bermuda mix for those folks. [/QUOTE]
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