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Has been too wet behind tobacco in NC, maybe able to plant the weekend. Wheat or ryegrass? Just looking for best spring grazing and quick cover. Some of both is my plan.

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Is this a problem? I have some heifers in the neighborhood of 700 lbs, cleaning up ryegrass/oat pasture. I noticed today they are pretty much only consuming the mature oat seadheads. Trying to get reseeding going on this pasture. Manure texture and color very different than before. Do i have to...

Here we go again: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-new ... -dairy-cow

My bulls were banded on Feb 20th. Three weeks later i put them back with the heifers. Still a lot of riding and following around which is not good for weight gain, so i separated them again. This complicates my forage rotation of course. Will they need to stay separated?

Had the vet out last week. First time i have used implants. He said he prefered to put the implant toward the top of the ear. Everything i read says the middle is the best location. We put the tag in the middle, would that be the reason?

From OSU: All applications of K should wait until the plants can utilize it better. If we were to look at soil levels of potassium during the year we would find that it is in greater concentration during the spring (due to mineralization of K during the winter. Plants have the ability to take up...

Just put a couple hydrants in and the installer (idot) left the hydrant a couple feet off the fence post. Thinking about adding a couple post beside hydrant and wrapping it in barbed wire. Any better ideas out there?

So as I ride by the rye field I notice a recurring pattern of light green and dark green forage streaks. Seems each streak is about 3 feet wide. Looks like a football field when each 5 yards was mowed in a different direction. This field was fallow/weeds in the summer. I mowed the tall weeds...

Nice slide show with audio from a feedlot company. From the Ohio cattlemen conference: http://beef.osu.edu/library/ about 20 minutes

Local supplies are having trouble get seed this spring. Anyone else having problems?

What are you guys in the Southeast seeing this year. Look to start planting winter annuals and wondering how this year is compared to last year. We have had two bad years in a row.

http://www.dlfis.com/Forage/Species_and ... ister.aspx Anyone had any experience with this grass - Persister Prairie Brome. I am looking for an alternative to annual ryegrass requiring annual reseeding and tillage for a stocker operation. On some of my pasture I have winter annuals and...

What do you think about this idea? I have an area where I rotate my garden around in, which requires a temporary perimeter electric fence. I keep worrying about the cows getting out (especially when they salivate over the sweet corn) - so I decided to try a hot high tensile single strand with...

Does anyone know the rules for grazing wheat and still being eligible from farm bill payments? Also how do you sign up for these farm programs for the first time?

This is first time I have tried holding calves through the winter. 500-600 lbs. I have about 1 acre of winter annuals, mostly rye, per calf now. The rye is well established but growing slowly now. The rye is crossed fenced for 7 rotations. I have low quality hay with insufficient protein for...

Just wanted to express my appreciation for the folks on this board. Nowhere are there better people than this board and the information I gather here is priceless. When I first started posting here I was concerned that those doing this for a living might not appreciate all the rookie questions...

Planning a new loading chute, tell me what I am thinking wrong. I am looking to build a short new chute for 400-700 lb calves. Questions I have. Would treated plywood be okay for sides with very little curve. With no plans for larger animals can I get by with a 4 foot tall plywood about a foot...

From an email i just recieved. I know little about this 8a firm, but these are generally set up to benefit from military set asides. $45 Million in construction contracts at Seymour Johnson Air Force base in Golsboro N.C. INTRODUCTION TO NATIONAL NICC JV, LLC National NICC JV, LLC (National...

Have any of you guys considered installing solar thermal panels to heat your water. USDA has the Rural energy for America (REAP) program. They provide loans and grants to place renewal energy stuff on your farm. These grants are in addition on any regular tax credits on your federal and state...