Dry weather has created hay shortages in many areas of North Dakota, with crops at 50 percent of normal. Drought-damaged cereal crops that normally would be harvested for grain have been shifted to hay, which will help reduce the strain on hay demand.
Producers should have late-season alfalfa management plan
If alfalfa is harvested too late in the season, it will not have enough time before a killing frost to adequately replenish its stored energy reserves.
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