Minnesota dairy farmer expects bookend hay crops to carry through winter

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Minnesota dairy farmer expects bookend hay crops to carry through winter

A Minnesota dairy farmer expects his first and last hay crops to be his best. 

Dan Glessing of Waverly in central Minnesota says he was pleased with first cut alfalfa.

“First crop was good, good quality. Second (crop), we were just too dry. There was not a lot (of hay) there. Third was alright. But there again, we were kind of short on moisture. And it wasn’t quite the tonnage that we need.”

With that in mind, he tells Brownfield they’re going to hold off a few days on the fourth cut.

“Towards the weekend or over the weekend we’ll probably get cutting on that. And it looks really good, we had adequate moisture for this fourth crop and am really excited to get in there.”

But Glessing says there won’t be a fifth cutting.

“Four is enough fun for us. We are going to call it and hopefully get some regrowth for winter to have a nice blanket on there.”

Glessing, the current vice president of Minnesota Farm Bureau, says based on how the fourth crop looks, there should be plenty of hay for the winter.

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