The past week offered an opportunity to put up dry hay. But one needed to be bold enough – or reached a point of desperation – to challenge the weather forecast. Storms forecast for mid-week in our area never materialized. I’ve seen some fields that efforts to put up hay appear to have been abandoned. The alfalfa is blossomed and lodged so bad that the quality of potential hay is questionable.
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Don Lutz
Don Lutz of Scandinavia, Wisconsin, is one of the Wisconsin representatives on the board of the American Soybean Association. He farms 1,350 acres in Waupaca and Portage counties with his brother and nephew, as well as finishes Holstein steers. Lutz is retired from the National Agricultural Statistics Service of Washington, D.C.
