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    Identify grass and suggest usage?

    I’m not sure if it’s headed yet,or if sheep are nipping them off.
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    Identify grass and suggest usage?

    I’m looking for ideas of what to do with this grass to improve soil and or feed stock. First, what kind it it? Then I am tossing around what to do with it. Nothing? Just leave for future? Bale? Mow and leave? Mob graze it?TIA
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    Spring Grass

    Same here, SCKY
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    Bought fertilizer today....

    Locally,Sc Ky, tri 19 is $1400/T. None available and no prepay. Expecting $1800/T by time it arrives.
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    Fall hay

    While visiting with neighbor, he showed me some rolls of hay he had just done. He had metal rods pointed on one end, 3ft approximately length, shoved into the bales. He pulled the rods out to test the temperature. He uses a temperature meter to monitor so he knows if it’s warmer or cooler since...
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    Hay unroller

    Marketplace for Columbia,Ky has several for sale.
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    Hay unroller

    Hay Unroller
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    Type of rake

    Aaron, you ever considered a double hitch and get nh 258?
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    Recommendation on chain harrow

    My recommendation is to make a drag with old tires. I have one that’s 7 tires, 3 in front 4 in back. Would work very good following what you described.
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    Bin run corn for grazing

    Make sure you germination test before planting! I added corn to mix I planted last year. Not one plant of corn came up! Everything else came up fine. My guess as to why, terminator seeds, or it was dried too hot and it killed the germ!
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    The way I unroll hay

    We sold/ scraped our rings. I didn’t like the mess it made. The boss cows ate most of hay. We used 1/3 less by unrolling it. And we are fertilizing and seeding and don’t have to spread manure.
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    Pasture disaster

    So, time has elapsed past prime time to mow to control cockleburr. I’m not sure that any kind of mower is a good idea. And especially bad being a rotary. I think it would help to scatter the seeds even further. What are your thoughts?
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    Truly Amazing Pasture

    Big mistake on my part. 1 cow/5acres.
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    Truly Amazing Pasture

    We have a field that’s part of a farm we tend. When we started it was being taken over by blackberry and sumac. It’s gotten better each year just by mowing and leaving the clippings.
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    Truly Amazing Pasture

    Would you define/explain your “ regular mowing program “? When I first started farming I visited one my uncles that is a rancher in Missouri. I was interested in his operation so I asked a lot of questions. One that his answer stuck with me was about acres per cow. He ran 1 cow unit per acre...
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    Choosing where to cut hay

    When deciding where and when to cut individual fields how do you choose? We have several small irregular varying in quality and quantity. Do you get the best ones done first, or start and sweep from closest to farthest?
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    Height to clip?

    True, stays greener than pasture most years
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    Height to clip?

    We’ve agreed to put up neighbors grass hay. There is broomsedge from last year and they want it bushhog this spring. Today I walked part of the field. The green grass is growing.6 inches in some places. How low should we clip it?
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    Grazing standing corn

    YouTube. How I intergraded corn grazing into my forage program. Tommy Yankey.
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    Seeding into sod?

    its electric
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