Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Prison Ranch anticipates purchasing a minimum of 3,200 tons of alfalfa hay in large bales for this solicitation. Department of Corrections reserves the right to make opportunity buys if in the best interest of the State. Delivery will commence immediately following Notification of Award. Vendors are required to submit their available tonnage of both large and small bales of horse hay. 1.1 HORSE HAY SPECIFICATIONS: 1.1.1 Shall Be: 1.1.1.1 2021 or 2022 crop; first or second cutting; 1.1.1.2 Domestically grown; 1.1.1.3 Alfalfa hay should be harvested in a manor to maximize nutritional value; 1.1.1.4 No rain damage, moldy, weedy or over-mature hay is acceptable; 1.1.1.5 Free of any Russian thistle or prickly herb, “Cheat” grass, noxious weeds, bearded grain, any forage plant containing long spikelets, and any other weed or grass not considered healthy forage for horses; and
