Young Farmer makes PREMIUM 2nd Cutting Hay!!! 

Thankyou!

If grass was the only thing that sold around here, that’s all I would do😂 but there’s enough of a horse market around here that alfalfa still brings a nice premium so I guess it’s worth the headache sometimes

@@jakefromsteakfarm4177 that makes sense! Big horse market here too, just hard for them to get alfalfa 😅

So what’s the reason not much alfalfa is grown up there, just curious? Do you have many dairies around there?

@@jakefromsteakfarm4177 as far as I can tell it just doesn’t like our climate and/or gets outcompeted by grasses quickly. Some dairies do plant it and chop it, but I think the stands don’t last very long. (Winters too harsh, maybe?). Our hay drying weather is fairly challenging too - just not really possible to make dry hay without working it a good bit, so that might have something to do with it too. Enough wet ground, heavy dew, and tight weather windows that if I was trying alfalfa it’d be all stems by the time I baled it 😂. Thanks for comparing notes, I’m genuinely curious about all of this. And keep up the good work, really appreciate your channel and sharing your story.

It's for horse people anyhow. They usually don't like majority alfalfa bales

From my IH dealer

At the end of the day, buffered acid is an “acid” and should be treated as one. Many studies say it’s safe, others not so much. I would rather use SiloKing because its a blend of enzymes that hinders the growth of undesirable organisms that cause mold, helps break down and unlock more energy within the feed, making it a more digestible and usable feed. I’ve baked hay up to %25 and it cured just as well as hay baled at %10-15. Everyone had their preference, and every operation is different. We just choose to use SiloKing when we look at the benefits.

@@jakefromsteakfarm4177 ok you gave me your preference, But did not explain why its safer. proprionic acid is used in the food and drug industries for human consumption, cheese, sliced store bought bread and ibuprofen are just a few examples of what its used in that people consume. I find it funny that people will state its unsafe for horse feed while they are eating a ham and cheese sandwich and took 2 advil because they have headache and never new the ate proprionic acid themselves. I worked in a chemical plant for 12 years and trust me all acids are not the same and do not need to be treated as such. The word acid scares people I get it but at the end of the day facts are facts and opinions are opinions. Can you give me any example of where silo king is used in the food and drug industries for human consumption? I get tired of hearing people claim proprionic acid is unsafe to preserve hay with out any facts to back there opinion, this gives hay producers that use it a bad rap. I am not trying to argue with you but your statement about acid is a punch in the face to any hay producer that uses it and at the end of the day we are all trying to make the best quality and safest hay we can for our customers and there animals

I’m so sorry I triggered you😂

Don’t know where you are getting your info at about bailing in the mid day heat but there full of sh/:t. I run 400 acres of hay it doesn’t matter