Capturing the Majestic Beauty of Hay Fields with a Lens A Photographer's Journey

you maintain fields mostly for wildlife and cut a little hay. You had your spring cutting, which yielded winter wheat and clover. Those fields were then re ... Such hay fields tend to grass-dominated but covered preponderantly by European species. The clearest ecological analogy for such hay fields is for grassland ... Start the grass interseeding process by severely grazing the alfalfa in August. Grazing at a high stock density will usually get the cattle to ... Maybe you're fed up with the contract hay baler who doesn't think your hay field is a priority. Ultimately, you don't want to depend upon others for quality hay ... composition of a pasture or hayfield. Simply broadcasting seed over the field usually gives poor results. Use a seeder to deposit the seed below the soil ... Our hay field was neglected and overgrown, and was taken over by blackberry thickets. Here is our 3-step plan to get it back under control. ... hayfield, as you can see. That was the Rye field I posted about earlier, but I no longer use these hayfields for making hay. To begin with ... As we drive around our brave little state, we see field after field all designated for hay to feed our dairy cows all winter long, ... a field where herbaceous plants and especially grasses or legumes (such as timothy or orchard grass or alfalfa) are grown for hay Soil needs to be damp to slightly wet to cut up the top roots. It is a temporary fix though, 2-3 years of better production than it was but no ...