Posted by amnion on September 01, 2010 at 07:49:10 from (192.46.108.216):
In Reply to: Cutting oats for hay posted by ryanwheelock on September 01, 2010 at 07:04:22:
Sounds like you might be too late. If the seed heads are dry with yellow husks and the stems are mostly yellow, you are making straw instead of hay. Take a bunch of oats from different plants throughout the field; if you pinch the oats with your fingers and no white "milk" comes out of the seed, those oats can only be harvested as grain and straw.
To do oat hay, you really need to cut the oats either before the seeds are forming in their husks, or just past that point when most seed heads are in the milk stage. If you wait until the dough stage or later, you won't get any hay out of it.
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