Posted by Mike (WA) on December 20, 2012 at 09:41:33 from (69.10.199.107):
In Reply to: Chopping hay! posted by JayinNY on December 20, 2012 at 07:44:09:
Around here, with the rain, nobody makes hay after August. Usually, the grass just gets brown, mats down, and that's that. But one year, an old guy had quite a bit of re-growth after 1st cutting, and he didn't graze it. We didn't have a killing frost until we got an "Alberta Clipper" in December, temperature in the teens and single digits for a week. Just before it arrived, he went out and mowed that (still green) field. Everybody thought he was nuts.
Crazy like a fox, it turned out- the hay "freeze-dried", and he baled it. Very dark green, nice and dry- the cattle loved it. And nobody worked up a sweat hauling it in.
Matter of fact, we might have conditions for that again this year- haven't had a killing frost yet. If it ever dries out, I really need to mow the lawn again, or its gonna be a real mess come spring.
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