Thursday, June 4, 1998 | 2:17 a.m.
Reports indicate inclement weather sent hay fields into the doldrums across the state, said Bob Grownowski, plant bureau chief for the Nevada Division of Agriculture.
But better days appear to be ahead.
"'The growth was slowed down by the cool weather. Now that it's armed up, the growth should accelerate," he told the Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle Standard.
In order to meet market demands and a harvest schedule of four or five crops a year, most Churchill County farmers will be faced with cutting the first hay crop about now even though they likely will see smaller yields.
Churchill County ranks third in state in the amount of hay grown with 30,000 acres. Humbolt County farmers planted 43,000 acres of alfalfa in 1996 and Lyon County annually averages 38,000 acres of alfalfa.
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