Thank you for the reply, do you have to add anything to the grass when its being baled & wrapped to make Haylage?Sorry if this is insultingly basic but, in simple terms:
If you cut grass and leave it, it rots.
If you cut grass and heap it up then seal the air out the "good bacteria" on it ferment some of the sugar into acid and it pickles becoming silage.
If you cut grass and dry it in the sun & wind until it's dry enough not to rot it's hay.
Haylage is a halfway between the 2 - too dry and it doesn't pickle, too wet and it'll make silage.
It's an art, preserving grass
lolIf you want to be sure its fit to bale, strip naked and roll in it.
If it sticks to your body, its too moist, try again tomorrow.
Even better - get your nubile wife/girlfriend to roll naked in it and watchIf you want to be sure its fit to bale, strip naked and roll in it.
If it sticks to your body, its too moist, try again tomorrow.
You don't have to. Additives will allow you to wrap it at higher moisture contents without getting mounds forming but are not strictly necessary if the material is right.Thank you for the reply, do you have to add anything to the grass when its being baled & wrapped to make Haylage?
What about Silay how dry is that ?Sorry if this is insultingly basic but, in simple terms:
If you cut grass and leave it, it rots.
If you cut grass and heap it up then seal the air out the "good bacteria" on it ferment some of the sugar into acid and it pickles becoming silage.
If you cut grass and dry it in the sun & wind until it's dry enough not to rot it's hay.
Haylage is a halfway between the 2 - too dry and it doesn't pickle, too wet and it'll make silage.
It's an art, preserving grass
na, better to roll with herEven better - get your nubile wife/girlfriend to roll naked in it and watch
no better still take photos and post here, some sad bugger will tell you if the haylage is fit to bale, the rest of us wont notice the haylageEven better - get your nubile wife/girlfriend to roll naked in it and watch
Im not thinking of making Haylage this year, I am forward thinking, hopefully by next year my designated Haylage headland will be ready!no better still take photos and post here, some sad bugger will tell you if the haylage is fit to bale, the rest of us wont notice the haylage
In answer to your question unless its second cut or after a late grazing its too late to make decent haylage now, better to make hay now and do haylage next year
If you want to be sure its fit to bale, strip naked and roll in it.
If it sticks to your body, its too moist, try again tomorrow.
No, but the better quality the grass you cut, the better quality product you get. Everyone has their own idea about haylage, my customers prefer really dry haylage as it keeps better when opened, others I would class as dry silage.
Just sunshineThank you for the reply, do you have to add anything to the grass when its being baled & wrapped to make Haylage?