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southern MN | If it’s working it’s a good thing. Our soil and rainfall are drastically different so what works here or there likewise will be drastically different.
Here we can get 3 cuttings a year, 4 if you want less volume but more protein. Moisture must be limiting you to just 2 possible cuttings?
We like our hay fields smooth, they rut up bad enough. So wouldn’t chisel them. Old timers would run a light disk through a worn out field to split the crowns and get more growth again - with mixed results but sometimes it worked. I would think a shank would rip up more roots than it would ever help split.
As often as we have wet clay dirt and trying to cut rake bale pick up bales we tend to wear out a field with traffic, don’t need to run a packer over it here.
In 8 years of removing forage, I would think you have a P and K issue, removing without fertilizing. But maybe just taking one cutting your soil is mineralizing enough to keep up with a smaller tonnage.
Interesting to read what works in your situation.
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