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Northeast Colorado | I'm east of you near the border. We've talked on the phone before. Last year's oats made 1 5x6 round bale/acre dryland. Not awesome tonnage wise. But the early rains weren't there. It was sunny and dry putting it up and it made beautiful green hay that gets cleaned up immediately.
16.6 protein
RFV 119
NEM .67
NEG .40
Nitrate .23 (.44 = safe)
In the summer of 23, we got great spring rains. and we were closer to like 6-7 round bales per acre. The rain made the oats chest high, But the weather also helped create a pile of very mature, bleached, stemmy hay that got raked a few times.
It was probably 9 protein and the test showed terrible energy but I always felt that the test didn't reflect the grain that was in the bale. I'm still feeding it during blizzards and to random things. I did wean calves with it that fall, and wasn't actually upset. They did fine.
Edited by vordude 4/17/2025 14:09
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Hay millet advice.
