{"id":7404,"date":"2017-04-03T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2019-03-20T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:54:11","slug":"tips-for-producing-high-quality-alfalfa-hay-for-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/tips-for-producing-high-quality-alfalfa-hay-for-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Producing High-Quality Alfalfa Hay for Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage of maturity when you harvest it is particularly important. \u201cAs soon as alfalfa starts to bloom it is time to cut that field,\u201d says Glenn Shewmaker, MS, PhD, State Forage Specialist at the University of Idaho, in Moscow. \u201cAfter it blooms, most of the yield increase is stem. When alfalfa is this mature, horses try to eat just the leaves and sort out the larger, coarser stems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow this rule even if you\u2019re harvesting mixed (alfalfa and grass) hay and the grass isn\u2019t quite ready to be cut when the alfalfa starts to bloom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a title=\"Rest of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/38980\/tips-for-producing-high-quality-alfalfa-hay-for-horses?utm_source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When alfalfa is this mature, horses try to eat just the leaves and sort out the larger, coarser stems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,14,40],"tags":[184,805,804],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hay","category-industry","category-thehorse","tag-hay","tag-pasture-forage-management","tag-pasture-and-forages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8112,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}