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<blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 1837687" data-attributes="member: 637"><p>I will place my hay rings in areas depending on what is happening with my pasture. If I have an area in the pasture that the soil needs building up, I will place my hay rings there. Then as the cattle waste some of the hay and pack it with manure and urine, I will begin to move the rings across that section. It gives me a new few inches of top soil depending how long I let that hay ring sit. I may put three bales then move it. May do two. But by spring time, I have a fairly good size area that I have added a layer of top soil on. I had a hill that had a thin layer of soil on it the lespedeza grew real well on it as it sort of takes to a weakened area. But I rebuilt the side of the hill with feeding hay rings there and it has the nicest stand of grass and clover now. It usually takes a couple of years to make that grazing worthy. The soil has to break down and with the help of what ever grows there that summer, usually a wild grass will move in as the nitrogen leaves as it decomposes. Then the surrounding Bermuda begins to send runners to the area and before long, it looks like carpet. </p><p></p><p>This year, I brought my hay rings up closer to the barn on the east side where there would be a bit of a wind break. </p><p></p><p>But I find the hay rings a great way to build up weakened areas of a pasture maybe from where there have been bull rubs or where there was a hill that was farmed hard at one time when plowing took it's toll and being on a slope removed some of the top soil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chuckie, post: 1837687, member: 637"] I will place my hay rings in areas depending on what is happening with my pasture. If I have an area in the pasture that the soil needs building up, I will place my hay rings there. Then as the cattle waste some of the hay and pack it with manure and urine, I will begin to move the rings across that section. It gives me a new few inches of top soil depending how long I let that hay ring sit. I may put three bales then move it. May do two. But by spring time, I have a fairly good size area that I have added a layer of top soil on. I had a hill that had a thin layer of soil on it the lespedeza grew real well on it as it sort of takes to a weakened area. But I rebuilt the side of the hill with feeding hay rings there and it has the nicest stand of grass and clover now. It usually takes a couple of years to make that grazing worthy. The soil has to break down and with the help of what ever grows there that summer, usually a wild grass will move in as the nitrogen leaves as it decomposes. Then the surrounding Bermuda begins to send runners to the area and before long, it looks like carpet. This year, I brought my hay rings up closer to the barn on the east side where there would be a bit of a wind break. But I find the hay rings a great way to build up weakened areas of a pasture maybe from where there have been bull rubs or where there was a hill that was farmed hard at one time when plowing took it's toll and being on a slope removed some of the top soil. [/QUOTE]
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