Hay challenges abound for Missouri producers. With the near constant rain, MU Extension forage specialist Craig Roberts tells Brownfield Ag News, “By the time our hay was cut this year it was too mature, so there’s some mature hay put up. There’s some hay that will be put up that will be moldy. Also, we have some hay that was really not put up as hay, it was put up as baleage.” Roberts says that hay is wilted and wrapped in plastic at 60% moisture, “And that can be good for forages.
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