Hay quality varies geographically
Last summer’s drought wreaked havoc on Midwestern pastures, but both hay availability and quality varies depending on geography.
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Last summer’s drought wreaked havoc on Midwestern pastures, but both hay availability and quality varies depending on geography.
Hay Quality Testing
Forage tests, hay sales have come a long way Dairy producers, nutritionists, producers, and marketers of hay and other forage material often use indexes used to rank forage quality. These indexes include relative feed value (RFV), relative forage quality (RFQ), California total digestible nutrients (CA TDN), total digestible nutrients (TDN), milk per ton, and others. The best-known indexes are often associated with the buying and selling of hay, especially in the dairy sector. A step forward In 1972 the American Forage and Grassland Council (AFGC) established a Hay Marketing Task Force to id...