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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...

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...

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...

All of Georgia suffering some degree of drought. I am located at the extreme Southern edge of the D2 or Severe Drought area. About a mile from the Flint in NE Taylor County for you Georgia folks. I travel down through SW Georgia about once a week, and it appears most crops there made pretty...

Have had 1.5 inches of rain in seven weeks, that in three or four light showers. As I type this, the thermometer reads 100.5. It is amazing that my grass has held up as well as it has. My common Bermuda has fared much better than the little bit of Coastal I have. Had about six acres of...

I hit it just right with my winter grazing. I sowed about five acres of ryegrass two days before the hurricane in early October. Broadcast it, with fertilizer, on harrowed ground and drug it with old tires. Got about 4.5 inches of rain from the hurricane. Drilled in 12 acres of rye the week...

Did the hurricane do much damage to you folks a little further South than me? I’m in Taylor County, GA. We were very lucky. Had tornados bracketing us, doing fairly extensive damage in Crawford County, just across the Flint River from me. We had no wind damage on our immediate farm, and about...

According to the calendar, it’s time to plant winter grazing in middle Georgia. According to the thermometer, it ain’t. Supposed to be 92* today, low 90s the next few days, and mid-80s for ten days after that. I bought my seed, Wrens Rye and TamTbo ryegrass, three weeks ago. Got fertilizer...

Being dependent on well water, what to do in case of a prolonged electrical outage is always a concern. I don't have a pond or a stream on my property. I could pump water from a nearby creek into a tank on my pickup, but access is a problem. I have a salt-water pool in my yard, and it...