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    Ag lime vs pelletized

    Pelletized lime is primarily just ag lime, processed and pelletized. More money, but the same product. In our area, lime top dressed onto grassland works Okay. it may take a bit of rainfall to move the calcium down far enough to be effective, but many of our pastures are in for the long term...
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    Weed ID

    That is Teasel. It can become a problem because it may become invasive. Phenoxies will control.
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    Adding Humate to Herbicides

    Our experience here in the Pacific Northwest with humics blended with herbicides is not always good. The humics may stimulate the plant, but quite often they seem to deactivate the herbicides. A good quality surfactant is really a no brainer with herbicides. The cost should be far less than...
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    Your Typical Hay Field Management

    Do you fertilize every year? Every cutting, manure or comercial Do you graze it at some point in the year? typically not How many cuttings do you get? 5-6, with irrigation Do you cultivate and sow seed on any given schedule; let it seed in the fall? Generally not, unless the stand become...
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    Controlling buttercup in pastures

    Here in the PNW, MCPA works well on buttercup, just at the bolting stage.
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    Ravens killing newborn calf

    In this part of the world, Bald Eagles will do the same thing. If the cow happens to not get right up, the birds will eat the eyes of the calf.
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    Bog Rush

    2.4D, just as the rush starts to bloom works for us.
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