4hfarms
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We collect the piles and put them in the gardens for tilling.
I was going around in circles also....
I was going around in circles also....
Driving in circles
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wbvs58
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The last few summers our dung beetles have gone manic, the latter part of the summer just gone certainly slowed them down a bit, very dry and soil gone hard.
Ken
Ken
RDFF
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Dave
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These are late September or October pictures. After 85 cows spend 3 1/2 months on this 37 acres. The field gets drug in mid April. Hay gets cut about July 1. First picture is the regrowth in late September. Second is from up on the county road. Note the hay stack out by the trees,
GoWyo
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What grass species are in your meadows?
Dave
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It varies a lot. Some parts stay wet from the flood irrigation. Other parts are real dry. It is old river bottom with lots of rock just under the surface. To the point that we refer to one area as the gravel bar. The wetter areas have lots of Meadow Foxtail. The dry areas have more Fescue. A fair amount of old alfalfa scattered around along with some Red Clover. Other species scattered around include orchard grass, Blue grass, Crested and Intermediate Wheat grass, some Brome, and probably others I can't think of.
I know a local who leased this place about 35 years ago. In his lease it said he was absolutely not allowed to plow the fields. Doing that would just turn up a world of rock. So seeding for a long time has just been over seeding and whatever caught is what you wind up having.
Mark Reynolds
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At least you don't do like the sod farmers (was that what they were called?) did on the plains while bison were there, and there were no trees. They used them for fuel for their fires. In all honesty, they probably make for some pretty good fire fuel.
4hfarms
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I have read on cattle round ups in the late 1800s. It is a fact and need for fuel to cook coffee, beans and bacon, unless they had organ stew. Hate to be the cowboy to go find a wagon load of pies to cook with. The cold winters would have made me collect them all year. Start stacking as soon as it dried!
Birds really do a number on cow pies here after theyve dried.
Theyll look scattered. Seems to happen after theyve dried. Guess the birds go grubbing. In a couple days time theyll really work them out.
Skunks grub them around too.
Theyll look scattered. Seems to happen after theyve dried. Guess the birds go grubbing. In a couple days time theyll really work them out.
Skunks grub them around too.
