{"id":598,"date":"2022-01-28T21:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T21:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/?p=598"},"modified":"2022-01-29T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T20:46:26","slug":"the-value-of-grass-in-your-hay-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Grass in your Hay Stands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-quinary-background-color has-background\">Do you want to increase the tonnage and Ndfd of your balage, hay or haylage?  Add some of the newer grass varieties to your seeding.  There are several advantages:<br><strong>1.<\/strong> You can increase your tonnage by up to 1 ton DM per season.<br><strong>2.<\/strong> When made before the grass heads out, you may increase the Ndfd of your forage.<br><strong>3.<\/strong>  The grass can add some sugars that will help with the fermentation of your feed.<br><strong>4.<\/strong> When making dry hay, the grass will help in drying.<br><strong>5.<\/strong> The grass component is very beneficial for cows rumen.<br><br>Use some of the newer, later maturing tall or meadow fescues.  If you want a lesser grass component, 5#\/acre will normally be fine.  For a lot of grass, increase seeding rate to 8# or more. <br>To keep grass in the stand for a long time, it is usually best to cut a little higher then you might with a pure alfalfa stand. (3-4&#8243;)  <em><strong>The higher the grass content of your stand, the earlier you will need to make it for top quality.<\/strong><\/em>  As an example, a pure grass stand generally will need to be cut in the spring 1-2 weeks (depending on the weather) before a pure alfalfa stand. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to increase the tonnage and Ndfd of your balage, hay or haylage? Add some of the newer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpservices.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}