Hay producers know there are a lot of factors that go into the quality and total yield of their forage crop each year. Stuart Van Donselaar, test application engineer, shares his insight on the hay making best practices he’s learned in his 32 years at Vermeer. On this episode, Stuart and Jon Paul cover crop maturity at cutting, cutting height recommendations, the quality vs. tonnage debate, dry down time and more.

And, listen through to the end to hear the inside scoop on Stuart’s most interesting testing locations and crops, and a few of the field tests conducted on new equipment.