ProDairy – e Alert
June 27, 2019

As the weather challenges continue, a shift in focus from spring planting issues to considerations for optimizing the use of perennial forages and assuring adequate forage inventories has raised new questions and concerns.

Storage Strategies for Over Mature Hay and Securing Extra Forages
As growers continue to struggle with the harvest of over-mature first cutting in many areas of the state, the question is what to do with all of this high tonnage, low quality feed. Harvest and storage planning has been a point of interest in the past few years and these concepts apply (albeit in a slightly different way) to dealing with this year’s late first cutting.

Winterkill. What To Do Now?
As we know, reports of winterkill in the spring of 2019 were widespread. Due to the challenging spring weather, it is now late June and many of these damaged fields have not been addressed.