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Bushhog it in May and graze the heck out of it. Cows will eat it when it's young and green. It's not their favorite but they'll eat it. It hates hoof pressure and lime. I have about a 100 acres of it and it's always in the areas where the cows don't loaf. Away from the water tank and...

I've tried general rotational grazing on 4-5 pastures, it works better than continuous grazing. Quicker rotational grazing dividing the 4-5 paddocks into 16 paddocks works even better. MOB grazing at 50K lbs per acre works better....200k lb per acre works better still. What you have to consider...

I'm in west Ga with a mix grass of Tift 9 and Coastal. I've never had any issue with cows gaining on it. Some years the Bahia is stronger, some years the coastal flexes. I've got gamma and Johnson grass growing in the ditch and I hope it spreads. Mixed grass hay is hard to beat if it's cut...

Best time to spread chicken litter imo is in the fall on fescue or winter annuals like rye/ryegrass/oats/wheat. I even get a little pop clear into the next season with Bermuda/Bahia/crabgrass in the same field. You lose a little nitrogen, but you can put out litter near anytime and it remains...

You get enough animal density and rest, maybe supplement with mulch hay, etc, I think you might be pleasantly surprised. You can turn most any ground that get moisture and some sunlight into a viable grazing environment. It may not carry the same as as bottomland but you still get value out...

I'm wondering if anyone has experience on the capitalized cost of producing a bale of haylage if wrapped in sleeves verses individually? I understand the great "depends" component. I'm just looking for an index relative to hay because I have a gentleman that's doing it now on a small scale in...

Thanks Brute. If you were to put out some of that knock it flat spray to the tune of $20 an acre around say the middle of April what all will it kill? See I'm already thinking of ways I can tinker...hahaha. The weeds I see most are 1)Horse Nettle 2)Dog Fennel 3)Blackberry 4)Virginia Pepper...

I like that ole Bahia, particularly in dry hot weather. Most of my pastures are coastal, Tift 9 Bahia, dog fennel, Fescue, horse nettle, Johnson and Gamma Grass, and whatever ryegrass that went to seed from last year. I run about a pair for every 2 acres. All of my fields are pastures and...

I understand your skepticism. Kelp does contain "miniscule" levels of toxic metals, but that's about it. Powdered Kelp contains beneficial quantities of iron, magnesium, calcium, chromium, the iodine you mentioned and contains to a lesser degree zinc, selenium and copper along with a higher...

Raw Milk works. It's not a complete substitute by any means, but what is. I don't spread kelp, but I do use it for mineral and it's light years better than any other mineral I've ever used. I mix on halves with straight salt, and keep a few trace blocks around. They do real well. You can...

I'm almost hesitant to say it, but this has been the mildest start to a summer I can remember. We've had about 6 hours of 90 degree weather and it's almost July. That's unheard of. The rain helps a lot. It's humid as rip, but ability to still have night time temps in the 60's really seems to...

You might have luck on more total forage by carving out about 10% of your land and planting summer annuals into it. We've had good luck drilling pearl or brown top millet into close grazed fescue. Maybe even sorghum sudan. I have a buddy that runs an all grass dairy and he mob grazes about...

You might look at what do you project the calves to gain....and hence your gain from putting them there.....and split that with the guy.....or in other words pay him half of the value to you.