HomeScissors Cut Report 5/16/2023

Scissors Cut Report 5/16/2023

Off to the Races – But Beef Can Wait

With a string of beautiful weather hay harvest started this week. Hay grew well this week, with both grasses and legumes gaining about 5 inches. With cool temperatures fiber increased more slowly than average, with NDF increasing about 2.5 points. Fiber Digestibility (NDFD) and Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN) held steady, decreasing only slightly.
Dairy Quality Recommendations: Grasses and legume/grass Mixed stands will hit dairy quality target fiber content this week, and we would recommend harvesting these fields. High percent legume stands are still more than a week away from target fiber content.
Livestock Quality Recommendations: If you need some highly digestibility forage for growing calves, grass and mixed legume/grass fields will hit target quality this week. For all other classes of livestock forage is at least a week from target quality.

Estimated days from 5/16 to reach target quality for classes of cattle

   

Beef
Dairy Growing Calf Growing Yearling Lactating Cow Mature Dry Cow
Grass NOW NOW 7 days 10+ days 14+ days
Mixed NOW NOW 7 days 10+ days 14+ days
Legume 10+ days 10+ days 10-14 days 10+ days 14+ days

The Table below has each sample location, listed by Town and elevation, and lists the species sampled, average height, Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF), Neutral Detergent Fiber Digestibility (NDFD), and Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN). We have sampled grass, legume and mixed legume/grass fields across the county and at elevations from 1070 to 2100 feet. Look for locations with similar forage type and elevation to your farm.

Delaware County Scissor Cuts Results May 9, 2023 May 16, 2023
Farm Town Elev Species Ht aNDFom NDFD TDN Ht aNDFom NDFD TDN
Darling Andes 1505 Red Clover 13 28.3 88 74 17 29.1 54 74
Darling Andes 1500 Mixed Grasses 14 37.6 75 69 18 40.5 73 69
Eisele Andes 1412 Orchardgrass 12 41.4 70 69 17 45 70 67
Evans Andes 2240 Mixed Grasses 9 36.6 66 68 13 45.3 66 70
Gladstone Andes 1960 RClov(35%)Grass 7/13 40.3 75 70 10/15 42.5 69 68
Mattson Colchester 1080 Alf(60%)Tfesc 18/20 35.4 63 66 24/25 41.5 61 64
Cerosaoletti Davenport 1285 Alfalfa 14 24.4 54 69 19 28.9 58 68
Frisbee Delhi 1380 Mixed Grasses 15 42.1 70 67 26 44.7 68 68
Mushkoday Delhi 1340 Alfalfa 15 26.4 70 70 19 26.9 56 71
Rama Delhi 1400 Clov(25%)Grass 11/19 44.9 72 69 13/23 45.7 71 65
Sherwood Delhi 1610 Mixed Grasses 18 40.9 76 66 19 47.3 69 72
Sullivan Delhi 1425 Orchardgrass 14 43.1 68 71 19 45.2 67 68
Buel Franklin 1260 Alf(50%)Orch 14/21 33.6 71 67 hrvstd – – –
Grant Franklin 1650 Mixed Grasses 19 44 80 68 26 46.9 73 71
Taggart Franklin 1720 Mixed Grasses 15 44.1 72 66 hrvstd – – –
DiBenedetto Halcott 1730 Orchardgrass 18 42 77 68 23 46.8 71 71
Moody Hamden 2100 Clov(50%)Grass 6/8 39.4 70 68 20 41.5 70 67
Scobie Hamden 1490 Mixed Grasses 9 38.7 71 69 12 38.3 70 69
Hillriegel Hardenburgh 1670 Orchardgrass 12 45.8 70 67 14 47.1 66 68
Hager Kortright 2000 Tall Fescue 17 40.5 78 73 mowed 37.6 80 71
Haynes Kortright 1860 Orchardgrass 14/21 42.2 74 68 27 48.5 70 67
Cieri Meredith 2230 Orchardgrass 13 36.8 84 68 16 43.4 77 67
DeDominicis Meredith 2100 Orchardgrass 9 35.9 71 68 14 43 73 66
Keator Meredith 1600 Tall Fescue 15 42.3 68 67 20 43.5 66 67
Elliot Middletown 2060 Orch/Rcanary 17 41.7 78 68 24 45.6 70 69
Gray Middletown 2020 Reed Canarygrass 18 43.3 73 65 hrvstd – – –
Coombe Neversink 1420 Tall Fescue 13 41.7 78 68 20 47.2 71 64
Krum Neversink 1700 Mixed Grasses 8 41.3 67 67 10 48.8 58 70
Albano Roxbury 1950 Mixed Grasses 17 41.8 75 67 hrvstd – – –
Gockel Roxbury 1890 Orchardgrass 16 44.7 71 70 mowed 42.1 57 68
Kuhn Roxbury 1980 Mixed Grasses 20 46.6 67 68 28 46.5 60 67
Perry Roxbury 1830 Orchardgrass 17 42.9 73 66 mowed 45.4 69 69
Johnson Sidney 1070 Orchardgrass 24 44.5 75 74 28 48.3 69 70
Johnson Sidney 1070 Alfalfa 19 28.3 62 69 25 27 60 69
Deysenroth Stamford 1510 Orchardgrass 15 45.5 71 65 23 45.8 74 66
Hanselman Stamford 1488 Alfalfa 13 24.6 51 71 18 26.3 57 68
Martin Stamford 1560 Alf(40%)Orch 19 39.7 73 66 19/25 40.7 67 65
Ryan Stamford 1800 Mixed Grasses 6/12 40.7 72 67 8/15 41.4 67 71
Trovato Stamford 2080 Mixed Grasses 8/14 44.7 75 66 12/23 43.1 70 67
LaTourette Tompkins 1210 Clov(25%)Grass 7/18 44.3 71 67 18/22 44.7 65 66
Walley Tompkins 1235 Clov(35%)Grass 12/18 40.4 68 69 hrvstd- – – –
Wickham,B Walton 1170 Alf(40%)Orch 13/17 38.2 68 69 17/23 39.3 69 67
Wickham,D Walton 1240 Clov(30%)Grass 15/19 34.7 71 68 hrvstd – – –
Av Grass 15.6 41.9 73 68 20.2 44.7 69 68.5
Av Mixed – 39.1 70.2 67.9 – 42.3 67.4 66.0
Av Legume 12.1 26.4 65.0 10.6 16.8 27.6 57.0 70.0

 

forage quality goals for classes of cattle  Thanks to Dairy One for providing sample analysis