Recent content by Cowman42

I have seen feed ration tables that include "poultry litter" from ag uni's.....This forum has a couple threads from the aughts discussing it......It's real.

This isn't a great look for the beef industry. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/avian-flu-outbreak-raises-a-disturbing-question-is-our-food-system-built-on-poop/ar-AA1nejx3

I tried it a few times in the last few years in small plots of disturbed soil. I inoculated it and broadcast spread it in a mix with Teff grass, Berseem Clover, Crimson clover, Daikon Radish and some other stuff I don't recall.......It didn't grow much over 8", the clover seemed to smother it...

I Down here in the middle of the mitten I run my herd in flood plain, oak/maple ridges, and in red pine plantations. I thinned the pines about a decade ago and have rows about 20' apart. I unrolled first cut orchard/clover hay down the rows and now have some very nice silvopasture. The red...

That stuff looks pretty rough for second cut. Awful brown. Does it smell clean? I feed second cut orchard grass in the dead of winter. Last few years though the cattle have been avoiding it and preferring first cutting. It looks nice and green, smells nice. I haven't tested it yet. I would...

Selling a cat in a bag as a pig in a poke. Just because there is no way to hold you accountable doesn't mean it's not crooked. If you're gonna rob someone at least have the balls to do it face to face. Not hide behind the anonymity of a sale barn.

Just like there are no black Simmental, Maine Anjou or Limousin.

Last 4-5 years the ground hasn't frozen at all. That's why I have been unrolling. It was in the 50's this weekend. In December. I also had the same experience bale grazing. I did it on sandy ground with maybe an inch of top soil. Somehow still turned into a muddy mess that didn't grow...

Now that you say that......I am getting old faster than I think. It was near 20 years ago. Feels like yesterday. Yea black was nonexistent then. I have many fond memories of white faced cattle chasing me across pastures and destroying my VERY Expensive survey equipment. It is my...

I have tried half a dozen novel and no endophyte fescues here in MI. I have neighbors who throw it in their hay mix. I haven't had any luck with it. I plant a tilled up strip 15' wide and a few hundred feet long. I do it about every year. I try to mix a cool season grass, a small amount of...

Where is this? I see lots of spruce and maybe lodgepole pine. Low mountains in the background. Best guess is Northern BC, Northern AB, Those mountains don't look big enough for Interior AK. I don't remember ever seeing cattle ranches in YK. As a former Arctic/Northern Canada land...

Citizens Property Insurance Corp. I knew I had read about Florida Insurance recently. It is the state's nonprofit insurer of last resort. It is run/owned by the state and when all the other companies started to leave Florida it is now the largest property insurer. Citizens is required by law...

What I was saying is that he isn't BS. Some of his ideas just don't work other places. It is the snow that kills me when unrolling. Those 800lb 4x5's don't roll real well in a foot of snow. It is like pushing them up a hill. Also takes forever. I end up pushing it 6 feet and have to take a...