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Challenges -
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Growing hay in this part of Maryland can be difficult, with frequent spring rains and overall high humidity conditions. Durring the spring and fall (prime time for cool-season grasses), heavy morning dew takes several hours to burn off before any real drying can occur. This extends drying time by at least a day, along with leaching out nutrients and palatibilty.
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Variety -
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The difficult drying conditions lead us to stay away from legumes - we grow grass hay. Timothy used to be the sought-after horse hay, but currently Orchardgrass is the favorite. We've been looking into warm-season grasses, which are the staple of the south. A few local growers have had luck with both Bermudagrass and Teff.
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