Virginia's hay crop is rebounding from 2007 when a spring freeze and drought in the summer and fall caused a shortage.

Spencer Neale with the Virginia Farm Bureau says this year's first cutting was excellent.

Neale says this year's crop isn't overly abundant but it's in better shape than the 2007 crop.

He says much of Virginia is now seeing a lack of rain and heat stress but the farm bureau hopes that pattern will break soon.

Last year, many southwest Virginia farmers were selling their cows in the fall and winter because they couldn't afford to feed them, with hay prices two to four times those of previous years.