What is everyone planting this fall for winter pasture?

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Well we started planting this week in north Florida and I am making some adjustments this year so we will see how it works out.

No till Drilling a month earlier than normal. First field planted 10/7/24

Planting -80 pounds Florida 401 Rye
25 pounds early ploid ryegrass
10 pounds Dixie crimson clover

Drilled into mowed or grazed Bahia pasture. We will see what happens in a few months but would love to know what everyone else is planting IMG_1203.jpeg
 
I started to disk a little pasture up to plant an oats/rye mix and the valve has completely shut off. It is hot, dry, and dusty here with no relief in the forecast.

Do you have any concerns of getting too much here in the next week on what you planted?
 
We got 1 inch on Friday but we are too extremely dry. No rain in forecast for next 10 days but I wanted to get it in the ground and just wait for a rain. with the no till drill I don't have to worry about birds taking to much off so I believe it will just sit until we get a rain.
 
I went to a pasture walk this summer. The educated people said seeding will germinate and die without timely rains. Wish you well whatever you decide to do.
 
Hopefully snow. Just before the first snow I will plant a mix of Crested wheat grass, a Siberian wheat grass, and dry land alfalfa. Maybe some other dry land grasses mixed in. If things turn out right I will be able to graze it in 2026.
 
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No longer plant winter pasture. I now rely on the naturalized cool season grass seed bank. If I get the rain it needs I feed very little hay. Probably Not going to be the case this year. Only an inch of rain since July and nothing in the works. Even the tropical storms are heading east rather than north. Put a roll of hay out today to see how hungry they are. They were out grazing at dusk so I guess it’s not needed just yet.
 
Not winter pasture, but cereal rye for early spring grazing (March/April), then plant corn or beans behind it. If I get enough height on it, I may turn them on it earlier.
 
Not winter pasture... but just no-till drilled 10 acres of orchard grass with some wheat mixed in as a bit of a nurse crop..... the spring og seeding did not come up very good, due to hot and dry conditions in June/July... luckily the wheat/rye that was the cover crop from last winter came back after the first cutting...which was early made this year.... had planned to kill off the cover crop..... but it was too hot and dry and did not want to damage any og that was coming up. So the wheat/rye/mix came back and some og that survived the dry/drought conditions... and we got 50 rolls off the 10 acres which was twice what we thought.... it was thick once we got rain and it grew... then just re-drilled the og in because there were alot of bare spots; and it is coming up great now with the moisture we have had... it will have a great start and go through the winter...
Son will drill a cover crop as soon as we get the late corn chopped off the 10-12 acres, for silage.
 
Jacob said:
We got 1 inch on Friday but we are too extremely dry. No rain in forecast for next 10 days but I wanted to get it in the ground and just wait for a rain. with the no till drill I don't have to worry about birds taking to much off so I believe it will just sit until we get a rain.
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Sadly you may get more than you wanted with hurricane Milton coming.
 
Jacob said:
Well we started planting this week in north Florida and I am making some adjustments this year so we will see how it works out.

No till Drilling a month earlier than normal. First field planted 10/7/24

Planting -80 pounds Florida 401 Rye
25 pounds early ploid ryegrass
10 pounds Dixie crimson clover

Drilled into mowed or grazed Bahia pasture. We will see what happens in a few months but would love to know what everyone else is planting View attachment 50419
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We just put mostly rye and wheat, and some barley and oats, on our 100 acres of Bahia, and on 50 acres of an old dove field. We are around Cordele, Ga. That 100 acres is was row crops until now, so it is irrigated.
 
wbvs58 said:
Why?

Ken
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Hey Ken, thanks for asking. I apologize for making an assumption here. annual rye is a C4 (cool season) annual grass. Tall fescue is a perennial C4 (cool season) grass. As such, interplanting the rye into the fescue creates a direct competition for resources (growing season, moisture (if its an issue) and space. Interseeding, which is done commonly in the Southeast United States, typically consists of planting a cool season annual, such as annual ryegrass, into a stand of warm season perennial grass, such as Bermuda grass. The converse is done less frequently. Planting a warm season annual into a cool season perennial such as crabgrass into tall fescue is done less frequently but can be highly beneficial and productive. This thread didn't start out so much on interseeding. rather it is more about just planting fall/winter forages which is referencing cool season annuals in general which can be and are often planted as stand alone forages and not mixed into a perennial stand. Cool season annuals are often planted as cover crops on crop fields to protect them from erosion during the non-crop season. Cool season annuals planted for this reason can often serve a dual purpose of providing a forage base for livestock at a time when grazing acres are in short supply.
 
Mark Reynolds said:
Hey Ken, thanks for asking. I apologize for making an assumption here. annual rye is a C4 (cool season) annual grass. Tall fescue is a perennial C4 (cool season) grass. As such, interplanting the rye into the fescue creates a direct competition for resources (growing season, moisture (if its an issue) and space. Interseeding, which is done commonly in the Southeast United States, typically consists of planting a cool season annual, such as annual ryegrass, into a stand of warm season perennial grass, such as Bermuda grass. The converse is done less frequently. Planting a warm season annual into a cool season perennial such as crabgrass into tall fescue is done less frequently but can be highly beneficial and productive. This thread didn't start out so much on interseeding. rather it is more about just planting fall/winter forages which is referencing cool season annuals in general which can be and are often planted as stand alone forages and not mixed into a perennial stand. Cool season annuals are often planted as cover crops on crop fields to protect them from erosion during the non-crop season. Cool season annuals planted for this reason can often serve a dual purpose of providing a forage base for livestock at a time when grazing acres are in short supply.
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It would depend on the quality and % cover of the fescue.
 
Was 17 degrees for 3 or 4 nights in a row, calling for snow possibly this weekend. If your seed wasn't in the ground 1.5-2 months ago you missed the boat.
 

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