Posts Tagged: Hay

California’s Sacramento Valley Oat Hay Crop Hit Hard with Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus

As if the drought were not enough to reduce forage yields this year, some Sacramento Valley oat hay growers have been hit with a bad case of Barley...

Dr. Qualset, UC Davis, BYD virus infected oat hay field.

BYD virus in oat hay

Hay Resource through Farm Service Agency

I copied this article from our Fresno County Farm Bureau newsletter. I wasn't aware of this resource and thought I'd share. For many years, Farm...

Are We Taking Enough Advantage of Wide Windrows to Improve Quality and Yield?

Windrow width has a large influence on several important things: hay quality, irrigation efficiency, plant regrowth and yield.  Do we really...

Is Your Hay Biting You?

The straw itch mite (Pyemotes ventricosus) is a predator living in oat hay fields.  It is an extremely small mite (1/125 inch long), elongate,...

The Alfalfa Yield-Quality Tradeoff -Try Some Economics!

‘To cut, or not to cut, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageously low prices or to harvest when...

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