—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5, 1977
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Hay preservatives discussed at crops meeting
By LAUREL SCHAEFFER
Berks County Reporter
LEESPORT, Pa. - Penn
sylvania’s annual hay crop
has an estimated value of
$173 million, according to
Lynn Hoffman, superin-
Wellsville 4-H
announces winners
WELLSVILLE, Pa. -
Wellsville Boots and Saddle
4-H Club announced Terri
Lehigh is a county Blue
Form winner and received a
trophy for other
achievements.
Jennifer Kristich was the
top 4-H Club member of the
year.
Other trophies for
achievements were
presented to Diane Kunmel,
most active first year
rookie; Teresa Staullman,
most club activities. Project
awards went to Shelly
Lehigh, 8-10 year olds; Lee
Schneider, 11-12 year olds;
Tern Lehigh, over 12 years.
County Agent Tim
Markovits judged the
projects. The event was held
at the Wellsville fire hall
Advisers are Judy Lehigh,
Casey Schneider and
Ephraim Sheffer.
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tendant of Penn State’s Rock
Springs research farm. The
University’s farm manager
spoke at the Berks County
Ag Center recently as a part
of the Crops and Soils Day
activities.
Hoffman noted that ap
proximately 1,900,000 acres
are annually devoted to hay
in Pennsylvania. Discussing
the use of chemical
preservatives on high
moisture hay, the farm
manager nevertheless
maintained that the major
factor in making good hay is
total management.
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“We need,” he said, “a
method to reduce the time
involved in making hay.”
Liquid chemicals seem to be
part of this answer.
A major question involved
when using these liquid
preservatives is where to put
it on, Hoffman indicated.
Hoffman mentioned three
good areas. 1. Having the
spray nozzles on the hay
conditioner so the hay gets
sprayed as it comes off the
crimper, 2. on the rake so it
is applied when the hay is
making it’s final flip, 3. the
most logical place, on the
ns
baler as the hay comes up
over the pick-up and into the
bale chamber.
“The uniformity of the
distribution throughout the
hay mass is most critical”,
stated Hoffman. He then
went on to say that Penn
State had good results with
the liquid preservatives on
hay up to 30 per cent
moisture. The best rate he
found was one per cent of the
hay weight or 20 pounds per
ton of hay.
“Calculating the amount
of hay going through the
baler at a given time to know
the amount of spray to use is
important,” Hoffman told
the audience. The im
portance of the uniformity of
the windows to get an even
distribution of the chemical
was also noted.
In conducting experiments
with the use of chemical
preservatives, Hoffman kept
a monitor on the heat
produced by the high
moisture hay when stacked
in mows. “Heat may
damage the protein if it is
over 140 degrees F.” Hoff
man said.
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Hoffman warned the
audience, however, to be
careful when handling the
solutions because they can
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skin irration and precision
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the need to have the com
pound sprayed on the hay
uniformily.
Hoffman also told the
farmers that the chemical
solutions change the color
but not the quality of the hay.
“You can’t judge the hay by
the color when using liquid
preservatives” he said. The
quality of the acid treated
hay was comparable to heat
treated hay. He also pointed
out that the dry matter
losses were decreased in the
baling process when the
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feeding trials, was that the
hay was accepted and the
gams on the livestock were
better than with the beat
treated hay. The mold level
in the acid treated hay was
also less, but Hoffman said
the beat dried hay had a
higher vitamin A content.
Hoffman finished his
presentation by telling the
audience that field cured hay
had higher .losses during
baling than did the acid
treated hay. There were less
losses during the storage and
feeding processes also.
The highest losses, Hoff
man said, was with the large
packaging of hay such as in
stacks but the acid helped to
reduce those losses also.
Storing round bales or stacks
outside decreases the quality
also, noted Hoffman.
Also presented at the
Berks County Crops Day was
a lecture by William Mc-
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quality, and nitrogen fer
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