Hay production isn’t great in southwest MO

A cattle producer in southwest Missouri says fescue is making about half of the tonnage of a normal year.

Adam Whitesell from Dade and Greene Counties has been baling hay in the last week and says the weather extremes are confusing the forage.

“In September and October, we didn’t hardly get any rain. Then, we started getting rain in late October and November and we didn’t get much snow in the winter.

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