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crop for haylage, he mows 25 acres
in three hours and then chops it the
same day.
In summary, Mummert recom
mended, “If you have the right
kinds of soil and you take care of
your soil nutrients, you can do alot
with alfalfa. You have to select the
variety that is right to your soil
conditions and meets your disease
resistence requirements. There are
more good varieties available
today than ever before.”
John Hess also has a 350 head
dairy operation but farms wetter
ground than Mummert, Hess finds
grasses and mixed hays meet his
soil conditions. Hess produces no
straight alfalfa, but rather has 250
acres of alfalfa-grass mixes and 50
acres of straight orchard grass.
Hess stated, “Mixed hays give
me a wider window for harvest and
don’t require the extensive man
agement that alfalfa does. In my
wetter ground, grasses survive lon
ger than alfalfa and they take the
manure better.”
Hess admitted that the grass
mixes don’t bring the top hay
market price. However, his six
week harvest interval allows more
time to his custom farming busi
ness, which includes the sale of sil-
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harvests three to five tons from
three to four cutting on most of his
grass seedings.
Larry Wilkinson also has a large
dairy operation, but when two of
his sons joined the operation, the
family decided to diversify. Origi
nally a Chester County native,
Wilkinson had a number of con
tacts in the mushroom industry
who would contract for mulch hay.
Utilizing those contacts, Wilkin
son now has yearly contracts with
a number of mushroom growers.
Wilkinson bales all his hay into
Hesston 4x4xB bales and moves it
six weeks or later after harvest.
Explained Wilkinson, “To make
the hay business profitable in the
mulch industry, you must move
large volumnes of hay.”
He related that most farmers
have the wrong assumption about
what the mulch buyer will accept.
He stated, “What some people
think of as mulch is anything you
can get into a bale. Mushroom
growers work on an end product
production quota and they know
what kind of hay will produce that
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John Myers addressed the other
end of the spectrum of market, pre
mium hay sales. Myers also oper
ates a dairy farm, but is also the
proprietor of J.D. Myers, Ptrs. a
hay dealership which last year
marketed 2500 tons of premium
hay, almost exclusively to the
horse industry.
Myers stressed that premium
hay can be valued on cosmetics,
color, leaf content, bales size, or on
nutritional value. He stressed that
these two markets are not mutually
exclusive, and the best hay will
capture the best of both these
markets.
Myers defmed a premium mark
et as one that is above the average
hay price year in and year out and
cautioned the audience concerning
unusually high spikes in the mark
et. He said that premium hay must
be weed free and cannot be musty.
Hay bales should weigh from
45-60 pounds and be baled with
twine that does not easily tear.
He concluded, “A premium
market is often determined by your
proximity to a horse market. Your
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The premium market demands
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