Stage of maturity when you harvest it is particularly important. “As soon as alfalfa starts to bloom it is time to cut that field,” says Glenn Shewmaker, MS, PhD, State Forage Specialist at the University of Idaho, in Moscow. “After it blooms, most of the yield increase is stem. When alfalfa is this mature, horses try to eat just the leaves and sort out the larger, coarser stems.”
Follow this rule even if you’re harvesting mixed (alfalfa and grass) hay and the grass isn’t quite ready to be cut when the alfalfa starts to bloom.
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