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We cut ours with a sickle swather with conditioner but we took the chute off to spread the hay over a wider area. As I understand it with horses, the "dust" that most affects them is actually a powdery mildew that forms on moist hay?

Yeah, I realize boot stage oats is always preferred but I would bet the only guys doing it are using on their own farms. I found that you just cannot get enough tonnage and guys won't pay a DIME extra for it. We cut at full flower just when it starts to milk. Certainly not dough or grain...

Let me ask this, if I decide to add pea to my oats this year, would you guys typically prefer that over straight oat hay? I know lots of guys start calves on oats so not sure if pea would compliment that or detour buyers for that purpose? I was chatting with some of the horse crowd and they...

We got nailed middle of last year with a LOT of rain. At a time when all my hay was baled and ready for sale. So, all mine got rain and I could not get to them to load for weeks and everyone else with warm season products were grinning from ear to ear. I could mark it on the calendar, after...

what about 100% pea hay? why are they usually mixed with a cereal? I know the tonnage goes up but would sure seem the pea would be a solid product having high protein and likely higher palatability than Alfalfa?

I have some ground that I hayed oats on last year. I mostly found that trucker rates stopped about all my sales and still have some bales in the field right now. Some of the fresh cut sold for good price but the rains came last year and my bales got rained on while pushing up all the summer...