The Farm Gamble - Second Cutting Hay

Trying to jump start our second cutting hay - video shows our gamble to do so.
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[@Pennies_on_the_dollar]

I am watching closely, I like your approach to methodized organization 😉 Hopefully it will take care of that foxtail and your second cutting is great!! Thank you sir for bringing us along!! 👍🏻👍🏻😁😁

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Thanks!

[@obieacres4676]

Excellent video hope your second cutting is plentiful

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Thanks - fingers crossed…👍

[@dehavenfamilyfarm]

Sounds like you have a good plan together for making some quality 2nd cut hay!

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Fingers crossed - thanks!

[@pagrainfarmer]

Sounds like you really have it well thought-out! I think your gamble is worth it.

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Thanks - fingers crossed!

[@Dan-qy1rg]

Sorry to hear about the dry conditions there, we had ours in May through June last year, hope it gets better. I have bit of fox tail and burdock along with perilla mint that I need to consider spraying! I hope it all goes well for you for the rest of the year, thanks and have a good day!

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Thanks!

[@Rollinghillsfarmsmn]

Doesn’t take much rain for commercial fertilizer to sink in but you have to have some otherwise a lot of that nitrogen evaporates. That’s why I like cattle manure. Interesting weed control strategy. ..extra fertilizer too.

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Oddly enough, I spent a goodly amount of time reading about nitrogen evaporation and I get the impression it is over stated. If I understand correctly, once the urea breaks down and the volatile NH3 makes ground contact, there is a reaction with the soil that creates NH4 and is stable. A good rain is all it takes. From what I’ve read, the figure of 40% loss is not representative of field conditions where worse case is around 20% under condition, i.e. dry soil, heat and wind. All of this from reading on the internet, so it must be true…. A search on Agtalk has a lot of good reading on this subject too. Knock on wood, we’ve had plenty of rain, so - fingers crossed…👍

[@khtractors]

I’ve been debating on fertilizing mine. Same as you we are getting some rain now. I think clipping it might do as much good as anything and will stimulate regrowth. If I had a good way to do it I’d try that on some of my fields.

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Thanks - fingers crossed!

[@davidcassady8491]

What kind of spray will kill foxtail and not your other grass or are you depending on the clipping to just hold it back?

[@HumbleHaymakers]

@@davidcassady8491 Thx - I don’t like to call out the herbicides I use on the web. Google foxtail control and you’ll find it.

[@christopherpyle3503]

What fertilizer did you use?

[@HumbleHaymakers]

Urea - 46-0-0 and some 19-19-19