Get Brazos Area Hay Producer Association Members Form

The Brazos Area Hay Producers Association (BAHPA) was organized in 1986 as a non-profit educational organization. The objectives of the BAHPA are to: 1) promote the production of high quality hay, 2) provide sources of high quality hay for consumers and 3) market hay by weight and analysis.

After ensuring that the plants have dried, a tractor pulling a baler arranges the hay into bales that weigh from 100 to 2800 lbs. (50 to 1300 kg). The average total yield is 20-35 tons per hectare (or 8-14 tons per acre) per year (distributed in 5-6 cuts).

Brazos County, between the Navasota and Brazos rivers in southeast central Texas, is bounded on the northwest by Robertson County, on the east by Madison and Grimes counties, on the south by Washington County, and on the southwest by Burleson County.

BERMUDA AS A HAY GRASS. Not only is Bermuda the leading grass of the South for pasture, but in many parts of the South and in the humid parts of Texas it is a most valuable perennial hay grass.

With an average bale weight of around 40 pounds (with our Abbriata small square baler or any of our mini round balers), that's 100 bales to the acre for a first cutting.

There are 3 basic sizes. Large round rolls of which you can get about 5 per acre. Then you have a large rectangular bale of which you get about 40 per acre. Small rectangular bales of which you can get about 100.

ing to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 591 square miles (1,530 km2), of which 585 square miles (1,520 km2) is land and 5.8 square miles (15 km2) (1.0%) is water.