ericm979
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I'm considering buying property in a place where a lot of the rural properties grow hay. While I grew up in a ranching area where there was a lot of hay grown, my experience is on the consuming end. The farm land in the place I'm looking at usually has irrigation. It looks to me that they aren't growing alfalfa, and one property I looked at had "grass hay". I don't plan on running livestock or cutting the hay myself. I'd have someone do it.
My questions:
-is making a deal for someone to cut, bale and sell the hay common? what's a typical cut the landowner gets?
-since oat and grass are annuals, and when you cut the hay you take the seed heads, does that mean you need to reseed every year? If you're having someone bale the hay do they do that too? Is there other land preparation that's needed like discing or harrowing (assuming its already been in hay for a while)?
-what other sort of maintenance is needed?
-where I grew up oat and grass hay were dry farmed and only alfalfa got irrigated. If you irrigate oat or grass hay do you get multiple cuttings like with alfalfa?
Thanks.
My questions:
-is making a deal for someone to cut, bale and sell the hay common? what's a typical cut the landowner gets?
-since oat and grass are annuals, and when you cut the hay you take the seed heads, does that mean you need to reseed every year? If you're having someone bale the hay do they do that too? Is there other land preparation that's needed like discing or harrowing (assuming its already been in hay for a while)?
-what other sort of maintenance is needed?
-where I grew up oat and grass hay were dry farmed and only alfalfa got irrigated. If you irrigate oat or grass hay do you get multiple cuttings like with alfalfa?
Thanks.