anybody know anything about grass hays?

[Kali]

somebody lost a big square bale of this stuff and we are in the process of doing our civic duty and cleaning it up off the side of the road}(

I know what bermuda, timothy, oat, barley, alfalfa, and sudan grass look like but don't know what this is. Could it be fescue? stems are 2 to 2.5 feet long, finer than sudan although the smell is similar.

any ideas?

[Orrex]

1. Purple hay's all in my brain

[Kali]

12. ok I laughed

but you still need :spank:

[Orrex]

14. That's the highest praise of all

The laugh and the spanking. What more could anyone ask?

[panader0]

2. You made a fescue rescue

Too bad it wasn't a bale of Mexican sinsemilla. Hey Kali---

[Kali]

5. damn, kids just went back for the second load and it was gone!

oh well, got a good pick up load

we NEVER find any weed, just the empty backpacks and dead vehicles, did find a blanket years ago that had a VERY strong VERY familiar smell, though

[haikugal]

3. Orchard Grass

That my friend is a beautiful bale of orchard grass...yummy to any grazing animals you may have.

[Kali]

7. eh I don't think so

at least what I know as orchard grass rarely gets that big and the seedheads are different.

[udbcrzy2]

4. Orchard Grass

That's what it looks like to me too. When we had
horses, we would try to get alfalfa, but if we did
not have enough rain, then it was orchard grass.
I really miss the smell of fresh hay.

[Kali]

well, that is two votes but I didn't think it was

[mattvermont]

6. not orchard

dactylis glomerata has a very different seed head.
Not sure what it is

[mattvermont]

8. I would guess an early cut rye

[Kali]

9. huh, interesting

odd that I can't seem to find a quick source with seedhead pix of hays from the google. will try individual searches next.

[Kali]

11. I think you got it!

I've never seen it.

[Kali]

10. here is what I found for orchard

definitely not that

[haikugal]

13. Hmm

We have a hayfield with Orchard grass and the seed doesn't get a chance to mature so I'm not sure about the seed in your picture..Are all the seed heads the same? Is it Brome? Maybe Bluegrass...the leaf is very much like Orchard. Whatever it is it looks like good hay and the price was right! Rye...OK, not something we grow around here but big in the west, I think.

[LWolf]

15. Leaf looks like orchard grass;

I've got a barn full of the stuff.

Seed? I'm not sure. Doesn't look like seed from orchard grass.

[Tumbulu]

16. the seed head looks like rye grass- can't tell if it is

perennial or annual. But the leaves without scale leave me wondering. The leaves look like what we get up here in N. California from the mountain pastures- a very pricey mountain pasture hay sold for horses. Highly palatable and not at all "hot".