Implement / Cattleman ????

Thanks,
Matthew

Bale it green,Wrap the alfalfa and get Twice the food value. You can rent a wrapper for a COOP or local dealer just to try some bales.

• McHale Bale Wrappers

Are you sure they are feeding to beef cows?

Dairies green chop all the time as it increases the production of milk dramatically.

Downside is that the butterfat level will drop.

Allan

Matthew

It can give up about 200 growing degree days without much harm. So, you can cut it well before, or right during a killing frost; but it's bad to cut it during that middle period.

More of us are just taking a chance the past few years & cutting it late. I have 2 acres of alfalfa that ends up in my cornstalk grazing field every year, & the cattle use it to lay down, graze it to nothing, even mud it a bit and it has been doing well. This was a clay hill I park machinery on, kind of a waste corner. I had a 1/2 bag of alfalfa in the drill 6-7 years ago & interplanted into the grass there. But I generally bale it once, let the cattle graze it 2 times, and then they mash it in fall. Keeps coming through. Alfalfa might be tougher than we think, as long as it gets all that cow fertilizer & it gets one long 45-50 day growing period each year.

--->Paul

Thanks, John