Grass forage · NACE 01.190
First-cut timothy silage
Phleum pratense · Norwegian: Førsteslått timoteisurfôr
The backbone of a Norwegian ration: timothy cut at heading gives a long-fibre, palatable roughage that ruminants sort well. Cut date decides everything — earlier means leafier and more digestible, later means bulk.
Timothy is the crop Hallingdal is built on. It survives the winter under snow where most grasses do not, and it is the reason a mountain valley can sell forage at all.
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: Sowing | June: Harvest | July: Harvest | August: No operation | September: No operation | October: No operation | November: No operation | December: No operation |
Supply facts
- Life cycle
- Ley grass, cut annually
- Harvest window
- Mid-June to early July, cut on heading
- Supplied as
- Round bales, wrapped
- Field-stacked wrapped bales, loaded on collection
- Typically bought by
- Dairy and beef herds, sheep farms, horse yards buying in bulk
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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