Re: [RC] The Nutritional Value of Grass after frost. - Karen Sullivan
I'm interested also and have more
questions:
1. My pastures are greening up (Northern Calif,
short green grass, of no specific species I can tell, seasonal dryland
pasture)
It gets frost on it, survives light
freezes.....does it have much nutritional value?
2. Grass hay, when to cut. I see it cut
in fields before it matures. It is very green....but MY grass hay grower
says when it is cut at that stage it is only cellulose, no
nutritional value since not mature. He cuts his mostly rye pasture
when the grass is between green and brown, and has mature seed
heads.....comments????
Subject: [RC] The Nutritional Value of
Grass after frost.
Hello, I was in this conversation w/ a
friend and he told me he had some good pasture to put his horses on for the
winter and I told him that grass loses its nutritional value after a killing
frost. He asked me how I knew this and all I could say was I had read it
somewhere. Now my question is? Was this assumption an illusion or
does grass indeed lose its nutritional value? and if so by how much and
it just a filler as I had reckoned. Or, do I tell him I have been
misinformed? Thank you, tom
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