May 12, 2016
At home on the ranch in South Dakota, we’re hustling to get heifers and cows synchronized and artificially inseminated, move creep feeders to pasture, fix fences and line up help for moving pairs to summer grass. With the ample rain we’ve received in the last couple of weeks, things are really greening up around here, and we are itching to get into the summer grazing and haying season.
We’re definitely in crunch time before we are in the field mowing that first cutting of hay; however, Bruce Anderson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension forage specialist, says there is still time to fertilize hay fields this spring in order to grow more hay for next winter.
Here are three things to think about before fertilizing your hay fields:
1. Soil test