An eight-page booklet on the techniques of drying hay and haylage quickly for top quality is available online and in print form.
Best Practices To Hasten Field Drying Of Grasses And Alfalfa, a new publication from University of Wisconsin (UW) Extension, is now available online.
Included in the 8-page booklet are details on the best research-based practices to speed hay and haylage drydown: proper mowing height, well-adjusted conditioning, wide swaths and well-timed raking/merging. Print versions are available for $5 and can be ordered at the UW Learning Store. See our Hay & Forage Grower story, Faster Hay Drying, quoting two of the publication's authors.