Recent content by redlevel

I intend to feed out a steer and a heifer, born on the farm about the middle of March. I’m guessing they are 450-500 pounds now. I have about a half acre of field corn that I want to turn them in on. Old variety, Reid’s Yellow Dent. It is drying down now. Should I go ahead and let them in it...

I sold off most of my small herd in early 2020 due to an extreme drought in 2019 that devastated my pastures. I kept 8 pairs and sold the calves in fall of 2020. I fertilized the pastures, and got some fair rains in 2020. I finally bought a young Hereford bull and put him with the 8 older cows...

Pretty good indication they are pleased with their grass now. Grass is bermuda, pretty dry, with some green. I put a couple of 200 pound tubs 10 days ago, with probably one-third left. 21 cows, three calves, one bull on a 30 acre pasture. Moved them on two weeks ago. Drove in the field in the...

I planted only ryegrass for winter grazing this year. Right now, I have a whole lot more grass than cows. I have about 15 acres about this stage of growth, and only 21 dry brood cows. It has all been grazed to the ground twice since mid-October planting. I put down about 40 units of N at...

Ga Hillbilly, I’m pretty close to you. 100 miles due south of ATL, about 50 miles east of Columbus. A lifetime of row crop farming has convinced me that common Bermuda is about the most resilient grass there is. In rowcrops it is a noxious weed. Anything you do to it short of a gallon of...

Actually, they were old lessons I had learned long ago. I knew better. I usually plant some straight ryegrass acreage, about ten acres, and about that much in rye or wheat. I did that this year. My brother called me and said he had found a great deal on rye seed. It was last year’s seed, but...

I have had good luck with ryegrass just discing once, spreading the seed/fertilizer, then dragging with an old tire drag, just to give some firm seed/soil contact.