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| Millet handles those kind of conditions better than anything because it has somewhat of a waxy coating. You can break a snow crust by driving over the windrow. The bigger the windrow of course the better. I've even considered baling with smaller than normal bales and a minimum of sisal twine and more or less bale grazing in place, Two things, in the long run there is no such thing as wasted hay when it's eaten or fed somewhere that the nutrients go directly back to the soil. And given the cost of EVERYTHING connected to machinery today (see the thread on the cost of a new baler) harvesting feed and moving it some where else inevitably makes cheap feed expensive. I swath grazed some really rank tall wheat grass hay cut about this time last year. Mostly because as a bunch grass the old stems made it harder and harder for cows to graze efficiently. I was surprised by how the cows would dig through these really heavy windrows to find green grass underneath and eventually cleaned it up pretty well, but we had a really open winter. | |
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