Making With The Hay

Hay Board Meetings are fun! Our hay stores are still well stocked. We'll make it to the second cut. The rougher first cut hay is better for less active ponies. The more physically active ponies, such as the pegasi and ponies plowing the fields, need the boost provided by the faster burning second cut hay. But because the second and third cut hays are softer and sweeter smelling, most ponies like them a lot too. Our local harvesters also produce special mixes with more or less alfalfa, clover and with other grasses like oats and wheat, as well as fermented bales. A lot of that is for export and trade with other species.

There is still a fair amount of demand for our specialty hays but prices have dropped now that the pastures are lush once again. We have just about depleted our inventory of fermented hay. Export demand is highest for our silage so we recommended that our harvesters make more polymer-sealed hay bales. Those are the easiest to transport and because they're relatively small, they sell better because less is wasted to spoilage after the polymer seal is broken.