Recent content by hawkeye78

Have you had any moisture?

Be lucky you are getting rain. It could be so dry that you have to sell all your cows and don't have any hay to put up.

I think they all sound good but the little bluestem. I have a lot of it in a few of my pastures and the cows don't eat it very well.

You will be surprised how much better the grass will grow where the swaths were bushhogged it will increase the organic matter and hold extra moisture when it gets dry again.

I was told by an elder that the amount of roots is directly related to the amount of above ground growth. If its short you have no root structure. If you take half and leave half it will come back faster. So if you mow your yard really short it will take longer to regrow and it will also die...

I always cut in the afternoon. The plant has time to restore the sugars and other nutrients back to the plant after growing all night because the temperature has cooled off the plant will grow.

You need to really mix the sea 90 if not disolved correctly it will clog the nozzles

I heard the same Ericson and Creighton. That is outrageous. Most feedyards will feed pairs for around $3.00 per day. The price at Creighton is about 3.65/ day. I would put in the feedyard if it was me. Last year I rented some ground out for $225/ pair for 5 month season that is $1.50/ day...

you need moisture to activate the granular. Granted the weed needs to be actively growing when sprayed to kill it too.

You need to apply some humate which is humic acid and it will help break the chemical bonds in the soil and loosen it up so it will hold more water and more efficiently use the water in dry years. This will also help in untieing the p and k in the soil. You can apply 2qt-2 gallon per acre and...

greybeard I don't fertilize my pastures but I fertilize my hay fields. I don't know what is odd about that the manure and the grass that is knocked down will provide organic matter to the pastures and the microbes in the soil will do the rest

you can send some of the moisture my way. I will gladly take any.

Looks like you guys have some really nice hay and are getting some good moisture. If you get tired of it I will gladly take any you want to give to me in central Nebraska.

The best way to get ride of weeds is to rotationally graze and manage the grass. The grass has roots as deep in the ground as tall as it is out of the ground so if you take your pastures to 4 in on top you will only have 4 in of roots under the ground. When it is dry those roots likely aren't...

chippie I'm not using milk. because I don't have access to it but 1-2 gallon per acre of raw milk would be more microbes per acre than are their now. I read some where that a guy had some milk get contaminated with antibotics so he had to get rid of it he took it up to a hill and let it run...