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    Drill vs Conservation Seeder

    PH looks good, phosphorus is low. I added snapshots of one of the reports. The pasture is only 3.5 acres at most. We are wanting it to to be a very productive 3.5 acres and hopefully get some animals next year if the pasture can get well established. Below is what we have ready from GreenCover...
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    Drill vs Conservation Seeder

    Hello, Hoping to get advice on how we can get our seed to germinate without tilling up the pasture. We get a lot of water run off so we are moving to no till, hoping to get the pasture established so we can get some sheep or goats once the pasture is established. We are new to homesteading and...
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    Millet and some of the Bermuda we planted in April are starting to pop up!
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    it much larger than it looks in the photo, there are three drainage areas in total. agreed though. We may make a trip to Home Depot this weekend to get some mats. If we see some significant millet sprouting, we are headed to Justin seeds to get 300-500lbs more so the dirt will stop moving...
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    Here is a photo of the make shift irrigation we have running, once the soil dries up. Six rachio hose timers and six orbit tripods. Thats the area where the water comes in at. We plan on continuing to plant millet till there is enough cover and irrigate where we can, form once side to the other...
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    The seed wasn't well enough in the ground so most of the 200lbs and the dirt got washed to the other side of the pasture. We put more seed down with a solo hand spread (50lbs), it got washed away again, I put the last 50lbs down this morning :) This is probably the 4th time we have put down ALOT...
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    First round of browntop millet is planted. Thanks everyone!
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    its definetly black dirt - 39 looks right. When it rains it sheets up and when it dries it opens up big time. craziest dirt I have ever seen.
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    We had one test - probably should get another soon - maybe from two different testing labs.
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    We did get a soil sample, nothing showed out of range but I think magnesium. I believe the Ph was 7.0
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    haha - in some areas the mats would be useful for sure
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    thanks for making that easy to understand - I dont have a cultipacker on hand but can use a waterfilled lawn leveler behind the zeroturn. had no idea about the ryegrass
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    Grass Seed for Hay Pasture

    We have been seeing posts like this a lot about texas tough. Some sites say it is great but a lot of post that say otherwise.
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