Dry forage · NACE 01.190
Barn-dried hay
Phleum pratense and mixed ley species · Norwegian: Høy, tørka innandørs
Dried rather than fermented, so it stores without wrapping and travels without the plastic. Buyers who want hay usually want it for a specific reason — horses, small stock, or a shed with no bale handling.
Hay is weather-dependent in a way silage is not. In a wet first-cut window there may be none, and that is said plainly rather than promised and missed.
The crop’s year
Typical timing at Gol. Green is when it goes in the ground, amber is when it comes off — and both move by weeks between seasons, because snowmelt and heat sum decide, not the calendar.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January: No operation | February: No operation | March: No operation | April: No operation | May: No operation | June: Harvest | July: Harvest | August: Harvest | September: No operation | October: No operation | November: No operation | December: No operation |
Supply facts
- Life cycle
- Ley grass, dried rather than ensiled
- Harvest window
- Cut in the first-cut window, dried under cover
- Supplied as
- Small and large square bales
- Under cover, dry
- Typically bought by
- Horse yards, smallholdings, buyers without silage handling equipment
Harvest volume in Hallingdal depends on the season. Availability is confirmed per enquiry against what is actually in store, and no tonnage is committed before that confirmation.
Feed value varies by field, cut, weather and storage. Any figure that matters commercially comes from a laboratory analysis of the actual batch, quoted with its method and date — never from a table on a website.
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