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Just enough hay, but ponds are low
A cow-calf producer in southern Missouri says he got a third cutting of hay completed before the dry conditions started setting in this fall.
Mark Sconce tells Brownfield “Johnson grass is a lifesaver in dry years.”
Sconce says he’ll have just enough hay to get through the winter as long as he doesn’t have to start feeding it early, but ponds are still low.
“I got three and two-tenths of an inch of rain a month ago and that’s all I’ve had in eight weeks. In Polk County, we’re always three weeks away from a drought.”
Brownfield interviewed Sconce at the Ozark Fall Farmfest in Springfield last weekend.
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