Hay Board Strategies

I took part in the Hay Board meeting today. It is still our intention to push the harvests earlier to give the grass more time to recover before the winter. Our product planning strategists are confident that we will produce enough high quality second cut hay and bagged silage to meet demand. They worked together with the pasture tech ponies to map out which fields were best harvested as hay and which were best suited to be baled in polymer silage bags.

The pasture tech delegates reported that the grass is ready to be harvested, but they expressed concern about the moisture content of the soil. If the harvest was to start today, the lower parts of the fields would run the risk of getting churned into mud by the mowers. Hay left to dry on mud will become inedible. It will get moldy. But they expect, with a little earth pony help, that the ground will have absorbed the rain by tomorrow and be dry enough by afternoon. Just to be sure, the harvest will start at the higher, dryer ground and make its way down slope over the next few days.

Ponyville is going to smell good!