The 2014 hay crop

EXCELLENT grass growing conditions during last summer together with good drying conditions around hay-making time led to bumper yields of well saved hay. On many farms meadows that might traditionally have been conserved as baled silage were dried through to hay instead. Thus, the overall quantity of hay produced in 2014 was much larger than in previous years and, in most cases, it was saved with only modest field losses and was adequately dry going into haysheds.