Recent content by smuff76

I was always told over 90% of statistics were made up on the spot............. :hide:

The drought down south wiped out most of the southern rye crop (straincross rye's) and that has now but a strain on the northern rye supply. Talking grain rye's, not ryegrasses. Annual ryegrass use has been up this year as well, but there is a pretty good supply.

and what's the bonding agent in pelletized lime?

I can't see how anyone could possibly rationalize paying $3.50 per lb. for a Novel Endophyte fescue when an Endophyte free is at least $2 per lb cheaper and KY31 would be another $.30-40 cheaper than that. Your spending decent alfalfa money on fescue....... Add clover and lespedeza and save...

Sounds like it has been a really poor year for most cutting fescue. If I were a betting man I would say we will see prices over $.40 next year for the farmer. If your needing some seed for the fall I would buy it now as I think seed prices across the board will jump up.

I'm in Rolla. Seed is a little spotty around here. Lots of it got mowed down that week we were dry. Kansas and Oregon both have a pretty good crop.

http://www.producerschoiceseed.com/prod ... f-grass-2/ http://www.missourisouthernseed.com/pag ... p?id=21044

I guess Pennington is buying at .30 and .28. Missouri Southern Seed is at .35 and .33

Looks like the price of fescue out of the field will start at about .35 wet and .33 dry to the farmer this year.

Lets see if I can post a picture. That's from Southern Forages. Should only be used as a guide. As has been noted moisture and density will play a large part. Best thing to do would be to head to the scale if your buying hay and do it by the ton.

Lorenzo maybe?

I always thought they would make some dandy Balancers.

Crabgrass should be pretty easy to establish. It likes N and it should keep coming back if you let it reseed itself. It is a warm season grass, so it won't help you much Oct.-March. I would guess you could overseed it with annual ryegrass during those months to get some early spring grazing...

Alfalfa passes through a cow's digestive system in half the time that a grass hay passes through..... so the cow doesn't have time to fully digest everything in the alfalfa. If you mix grass in with it then you slow down the process which aids in digestion: Initial research with reduced-lignin...