Farmer495
Veteran Member
Has anyone talked about how haying is mining minerals and fertility from your land and shipping it down the road? And no chemical fertilizer does not replace it. So haying is a losing money operation and it mines your land.
Taking only 1 cutting per year instead of 2 or 3 helps a lot. Putting cows on the land in between cutting helps as well.
This is true.
I hay to feed cattle, which in turn generate manure which gets spread on the field.
The fields that get manured every year yield very well, the ones that don't, need fertilized, limed reseeded.