Hay there.
Since time immemorial, cows
have eaten grass and its dried
form, hay. Cows’ inner-workings
process forages through a four
stomach manufacturing process,
which converts the grassy intake
into two basic outputs.
One product is milk for their
offspring and a diet staple for
much of the world’s population.
A second output is a valuable soil
nutrient builder which could, in
our politically-correct extreme
times, appropriately be labeled
“used forage.”
Once upon a time, all dairy
cows grazed, gathering their own
forages and automatically return-
ing soil nutrients to be broken
down by weathering and time.
Grazing demands some signifi
cant volume of land devoted to
grass. Modem land crunches and
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In climates where cold weather
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years ago is of a high mountain
in Switzerland, where a farm
family was hand-raking hay from
a tiny and incredibly steep grass
field.
Some animal species even
gather their own hay for winter.
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short summers stashing away
mouthfuls of dried grasses in its
rocky lair, feeding from that stor
age-through the frozen months.
While hand-haying continues
in remote parts of the world,
equipment engineering has
brought forage preservation light
years ahead in our short lifetime.
Our parents grew up on small
general farms where they gath
ered and packed away loose piles
of hay for their few cows. Our
children (and I!) rejoiced with
the arrival of our first large,
round-baler years ago, saving
endless hours of pitching bales
around oven-like bam storage
areas on humid, 90-degree July
afternoons.
While we still harvest a few
hundred small bales for calf and
fresh cow feeding, the bulk of our
hay moves in large rolls, impaled
one by one on a sturdy, steel
prong fastened to a loading de
vice on the front end of a tractor.
Giant, rectangular-shaped bales
are more highly favored by grow
ers, especially in the West, whose
end goal is to ship and sell the
packed forage. Rectangles stack
better than rolls for distance
hauling.
In an agriculture poll taken a
few years ago, the large baler was
voted the most important equip
ment technological improvement
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of the century. That’s certainly
arguable, but hard to deny after
unloading wagonfuls of small
bales on a steamy, summer after
noon.
While handling techniques
have modernized, some things
about hay are constant.
Hay storage areas invite kids
to jump, swing, tunnel, and climb
high up to the spider-webbed,
nether-reaches of a big bam
stuffed with scratchy dry grass.
Mother cats still find nooks and
crannies among hay storage to
curl up and give birth to their kit
tens. And, every spring, at least
in our bam, one of our nasty, old
hens will hunker down in a hay
mow corner to hatch out a nest of
eggs.
So, in a world of constant
change and uncertain times,
making hay, in some form, re
mains an important part of rural
agriculture and tradition.
Excuse me, now, while I go
sweep all this dried, green “tradi
tion” off the kitchen floor.
Milk IS the real thing >
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