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Hay buyers and sellers can get together through several widely advertised hay listing services provided largely by government agencies.
Virginif .as only recently become active in developing an organized marketing system for its cash hay and straw products.
Unlike other crops, first cutting alfalfa hay varies widely in its appearance and feeding value between states. In response to this lack of a grading system for hay, forage testing is a tool used or encouraged in several of the listing and marketing services that buyers and sellers can use to rank the hay being sold.
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Plans are underway for the annual Apple Harvest Celebration in the village of Sperryville for the weekend of October 1 and 2.
As always merchants will have special sales to appeal to buyers. There will be live entertainment including John Jackson, the Hazel River Band, Don’nel Pratt and others.
There will be special activities for children and demonstrations of basket weaving and apple butter boiling. i
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