Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Gather, and Store a Nourishing Crop: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Gather, and Store a Nourishing Crop. A Storey BASICS® Title - Brossura

Hansen, Ann Larkin

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ISBN 10: 1612123678 ISBN 13: 9781612123677

Casa editrice: Storey Books, 2014

Riassunto

Ann Larkin Hansen covers everything you need to know to successfully make your own hay, from cutting, drying, and raking to baling and storing. She also tells you everything you need to know about equipment options, including traditional horse power, tractor power, and implements ranging from scythes to disc mowers. You'll learn how to choose the right species for your soil, how to predict haymaking weather, how to judge hay quality, how to determine how much hay your animals need, and how to buy and sell hay.

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Exactly What You Need to Know

Put your idle fields to work. Organic farmer Ann Larkin Hansen clearly and simply explains the five steps to the age-old art of making hay to feed livestock. This complete guide covers how to suit the hay to your animals and the haying equipment to your farm operation, how to judge the weather and the crop, and precisely how to cut, rake, dry, gather, and store a winter's supply of hay to be fed to your animals or sold for profit.

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• Editore: Storey Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1612123678
• ISBN 13: 9781612123677
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 91