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Faunsdale, AL | It is easiest to make into bale silage or chopped silage, at least here it is.
The time it's growing the most is in the late spring and it's hard to cure hay most years during that time frame. Silage is a lot faster, cut it one day, wilt it a day and chop the next mostly. If you have good sunny weather, cut it one day, chop it or bale for silage the next day.
Rye grass is hard for us to cure properly. Have burned a couple barns with late spring/early summer cuttings of annual ryegrass baled into round bales for dry hay. If a stack of it starts to smell really strongly of "hay", probably should be pulling the stack apart and separating the bales so they can breathe.
First barn caught without anyone noticing anything, and we wondered if someone has somehow set it on fire...........until the outside stack of round bales from the same cutting of hay started to smell like smoke! Whe we pulled the cover off and started taking the bales off the stack, they began to burst into flame! So that answered the question of why the barn burned a couple weeks earlier!
Next year was the barn that smelled so strongly. This went on for a couple weeks before it ignited.
The fire started about 6 weeks after the hay was baled and stacked. | |
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annual ryegrass for hay?
