Farm & Ranch
Ag Elsewhere: Montana — Hay Season in Montana
By Jean Stimpson
“Haying time has begun,” Montana rancher Jean Stimpson shared. Describing this photo Stimpson said, “This is in a field close to our house that has a pivot on it so we get three cuttings a year off of it. It’s alfalfa and we get approximately three-tons per acre, per cutting.” She added the third cutting gets wrapped so it is similar to silage hay, which their cows love. “Our first cutting usually gets started from the middle to end of June. Second cutting is from end of July to first part of August. Third cutting, end of Sept. That gets swathed and one to two days later it gets wrapped. We run two swathers, two balers and two trucks to haul it to the stack. It’s all done with only four people,” Stimpson said. The ranch also has dryland hay which they get two cuttings off of most of the time. Concluding Stimpson said, “It’s a crazy busy time, but we enjoy it.”
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By Tressa Lawrence
Babies are tucked away in every nook and cranny. Many ranchers across Wyoming have baby animals popping up all over this time of year.
By Lindsey Monk
Another load of grain in to keep feeding the calves until the green grass can really start popping.
By Rayford Pullen | [email protected]
Spring has sprung and hopefully the rains will continue where our country will heal from the previous droughts and our grasses will thrive. We are especially hopeful for the Panhandle of Texas where our neighbors and friends have been dealt a deadly blow to homes, ranges, livestock, and people. Keep them in your prayers as they will not be able to return to normal for many years if at all. Having lost their ability to benefit from this great cattle market is a double whammy for all of them.
Now is the time of year when we need to take care of business as it relates to our new calves that have been hitting the ground this spring. First and foremost is vaccinating for Blackleg followed by deworming with a white wormer and the IBR complex. Blackleg is a soil-born disease and with pastures extremely short this spring our calves have been grazing the green grass as soon as it shows itself, making them even more vulnerable to picking contaminates from the soil.
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