They don’t see eye to eye on everything it takes to successfully dry down and harvest quality hay and haylage. But University of Wisconsin’s Dan Undersander and Kevin Shinners agree that conditioning ...

After the first hay cutting, the timing of second and even third cuttings — as well as how much hay farmers get from those — can have some variation based on weather conditions and the type of hay.

WAUKON, Iowa — Bill Regan says the weather for last week's Farm Progress Hay Expo as "the best haying weather we've had." The show was at Regancrest Holsteins near Waukon, but many farmers who have ...

Hay making season is upon us and we are now patiently waiting for three to four days with no rain and low humidity. A lot of water must be dried from forage plants before we can safely produce dry hay ...

Hay season is always a challenge. In most years it seems the weather pattern never matches our grasses’ growth stage to harvest forage as dry hay at the peak of quality and quantity. We may luck out ...

For New Hampshire farmers who grow hay, the past couple of years have presented a bit of a Goldilocks situation. Last summer was too dry. This summer has been too wet. And that's a bad ending for this ...

After a cutting of hay, how long producers wait to cut again can depend on the type of hay as well as weather conditions. After the first hay cutting, the timing of second and even third cuttings — as ...