- Author: Steve Orloff
Published on: August 22, 2013
Windrow width has a large influence on several important things: hay quality, irrigation efficiency, plant regrowth and yield. Do we really understand all the reasons that rapid curing is important, and how wide windrows can help?
Growers throughout the Western US are blessed with relatively good hay curing conditions most of the time. The arid, warm weather that occurs during the majority of the hay-making season is truly a blessing compared with the often rainy conditions growers in other parts of the country confront. Other alfalfa production regions, such as the Midwest, generally have much higher relative humidity and summer rains are commonplace. Perhaps for this reason, many California growers are...
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