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CUTTING HAY [14 records]

Record 1 2021-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Techniques
  • Forage Crops
CONT

The first [nitrogen fertilizer] application should be at early spring green-up. Subsequent applications should immediately follow each hay cutting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques de récolte
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
CONT

Les faucilles sont conçues pour couper les céréales, mais peu adaptées pour la fauche du foin, elles sont très lentes et laborieuses en comparaison avec la faux.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Techniques
  • Forage Crops
CONT

The recompressor was operated with the workers laboring at the rate of speed considered normal for hay handling. The bales were picked up, two at a time, with a bale handler... The bales were placed on a table which fed the bales through a cutter. After cutting, the bale sections were compressed then cut in half.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques de récolte
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
CONT

La fourche est utilisée pour toute la manipulation du foin pendant le chargement et la mise en meule.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
  • Forage Crops
CONT

Hay is the result of the cutting, drying and storage of long stem plants, such as various grass or legume species. Grass species include timothy, orchardgrass, ryegrass, fescue, brome and bluegrass;... legume species includes alfalfa(lucerne), clover and birdsfoot trefoil.... grass hay provides sufficient protein to all classes of horse shown except for growing horses and lactating mares.... If protein intake from hay is not being met, one could simply provide more hay, a higher protein hay(some legume, if only grass hay is being offered) or offer another high-protein source such as soybean meal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
CONT

Le foin est composé principalement de plantes fourragères de la famille des graminées et des légumineuses. Parmi les graminées, on retrouve la fléole (ou mil), le brome, le dactyle, alors que les principales légumineuses sont la luzerne et le trèfle. La production de foin sec à haut contenu en légumineuse est complexe au niveau du séchage et de la conservation. Le foin de graminées ou à prédominance de graminées est plus facile à récolter et à sécher et il est bien adapté pour les chevaux.

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
  • Forage Crops
CONT

Hay is the result of the cutting, drying and storage of long stem plants, such as various grass or legume species. Grass species include timothy, orchardgrass, ryegrass, fescue, brome and bluegrass;... legume species includes alfalfa(lucerne), clover and birdsfoot trefoil.... Legume hay provides a better fit of nutrients for a horse with higher needs(growing, lactating), while grass hay provides a good fit for most horses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
CONT

Il existe [...] du foin de légumineuses qui se compose principalement de luzerne ou de trèfle et se caractérise par sa haute valeur nutritive. Ce type de foin est riche en protéine et en minéraux comparativement à celui [qui se compose] majoritairement de graminées.

Spanish

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Record 5 2021-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forage Crops
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
CONT

In Cnidion meadows, target species produced seeds after the traditional first cutting date. Restoration of such meadows was thus only possible if the transferred plant material contained aftermath hay regrown after the first cut.

CONT

Hay samples of the growths were significantly different in digestibility [...] Hay of the first cut had an average dOM [digestibility of organic matter]-value of 72.6 % whereas aftermath hay of the third cut showed a low OM [organic matter]-digestibility of 64.2 % in all three years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
CONT

Le foin de regain contient généralement plus de feuillage que de tiges, il est plus fin et plus tendre. Sa composition est également différente du foin de première coupe : il contient plus de protéines et graisses brutes et est moins riche en fibres.

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forage Crops
DEF

Grass which springs up again after the cutting of a crop of hay, and can subsequently be taken as a second cut.

OBS

The term "rowen" is often used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
DEF

Herbe qui repousse dans une prairie après la première coupe.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cultivo de plantas forrajeras
DEF

Crecimiento de la hierba con posterioridad a la siega o a un aprovechamiento a diente por parte del ganado.

CONT

El estado de las reservas de la planta tiene gran influencia en la recuperación después de un aprovechamiento por pasto o siega.

CONT

La regeneración de la hierba requiere un período de reposo que será diferente según la estación y que corrientemente es menor en la primavera.

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Record 7 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Equipment (Agriculture)
CONT

1190 Mower Conditioner. From cutting and conditioning to windrowing or swathing, the 1190 does the kind of job that maintains top quality in your hay crops. It is designed and built to handle your heaviest crop and to get you in and out of the field faster so that you can harvest your crops when they are at peak nutritional value.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines de récolte (Agriculture)
CONT

Faucheuse-conditionneuse 1190. Que ce soit pour faucher, conditionner ou andainer, la 1190 effectuera un travail qui permettra de maintenir une qualité supérieure de votre récolte de fourrage. Elle est conçue et construite pour couper les récoltes les plus épaisses et pour que cette coupe soit faite le plus rapidement possible de façon que vous puissiez récolter votre fourrage pendant que sa valeur nutritive est la meilleure.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas para la cosecha (Agricultura)
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Record 8 2011-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Equipment (Agriculture)
DEF

A machine fitted with a mowing sickle cutting bar which is designed to cut forage for hay, weeds, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines de récolte (Agriculture)
DEF

Machine qui coupe le fourrage sur pied.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas para la cosecha (Agricultura)
DEF

Máquina cortadora de hierba.

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Record 9 2011-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
CONT

Hay quality and ease of making hay have been improved greatly by relatively new machines for cutting, conditioning, windrowing, baling, and handling hay.

OBS

The term "cutting" refers to all crops whereas "mowing" is used only in reference to grasses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
DEF

(Action) de sectionner, à leur base, les tiges de fourrages et de céréales sur pied.

OBS

On préfère plutôt parler de coupe pour les céréales et de fauchage pour les fourrages.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cultivo de cereales
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Record 10 2005-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
DEF

A sharp instrument used in cutting hay out of a stack or mow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole
OBS

[Le] couteau [à foin] utilisé il y a un siècle, coupe le foin en meules et en balles.

Spanish

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Record 11 2002-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Techniques
  • Plant and Crop Production
OBS

The cutting and handling of the hay crop in such a manner as to make it a suitable feed for livestock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques de récolte
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Ensemble des travaux aboutissant à la récolte du foin.

Spanish

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Record 12 1999-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Forage Crops
CONT

For early-spring grazing.... Young, vigorous stands of alfalfa or alfalfa-grass mixtures in which the alfalfa has not been injured or weakened by bacterial wilt disease may be grazed evenly and heavily for about a week in early spring if the ground is firm. Excellent pasturage is provided by this treatment; it also delays the time of cutting and results, in a finer and better quality of hay.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
  • Élevage des animaux
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
CONT

(Le déprimage est une méthode) d'exploitation fourragère qui consiste à laisser les animaux pâturer des graminées dès le début du printemps, par suite de l'insuffisance des réserves fourragères en fin d'hiver. [...] Le déprimage peut avoir l'avantage d'augmenter assez notablement la digestibilité du cycle ultérieur de la graminée, par rapport à un cycle normal. Il peut, cependant, diminuer le rendement global annuel en matière sèche.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Alimentación animal (Agricultura)
  • Cría de ganado
  • Cultivo de plantas forrajeras
DEF

Aprovechamiento del pasto por parte del ganado cuando se ha producido el primer desarrollo de la hierba a comienzos de la primavera.

CONT

[...] la alternancia pastoreo-siega y el pastoreo precoz del primer crecimiento de la hierba, a menudo ayudan a mejorar considerablemente la calidad de las praderas.

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Record 13 1981-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Feed Processing Equipment
DEF

A combination of a cutting or chopping device with either a burr or hammer mechanism which is used for reducing roughages, such as hay, to a ground meal or feed condition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Matériel)

Spanish

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Record 14 1981-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Harvesting Equipment (Agriculture)
DEF

A power-drawn machine combining the cutting mechanism of the mowing machine with a set of rolls which crimp or crush the stems and heavy parts of the hay as it is cut. This makes possible faster and more even drying and curing and reduction in the loss of the valuable leaves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines de récolte (Agriculture)

Spanish

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