Blackgrass palatability

[Clever Dic]

l have taken 60 acres from a neighbour on a 2 year agreement it is sown with IRG for horse haylage but has come full of BG maybe that's why I got it me thinks. Anyway do I silage it now or let it run till 1st week in June and still make the haylage but my question is how palatable is BG or will it not matter.

 

[Badshot]

Surely irg left till.june would be rubbish anyway. I'd haylage it may time, then do second cut July.

 

[Clever Dic]

Surely irg left till.june would be rubbish anyway. I'd haylage it may time, then do second cut July.

20 + years and never baled in May.I want proteins below 12%

 

[90hp farming]

I had a similar situation last year with a dirty 10 acre reseed (seeded autumn 2015).
ewes and lambs on this field for the spring and summer - they wouldn't eat my blackgrass. Had to top it 5 times through the season with a disc mower in between rotational grazing. I have beaten it though - not a sign this spring.
Not much help to you though as you want to bale a crop, not graze it. Any way les chevaux might relish a little BG......
As long as the green head is wrapped in a bale you might achieve the same goal?