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I have a selection planted on nearly 30 acres and it's claim to fame is a less woody stem. I have the old unimproved type in newly cleared ground that came up on it's on and the cows avoided it two rotations ago and grazed it on the last round. It is excellent feed quality if managed. We have a...

Cattle graze s. lespedeza when it blooms. It relocates tannins from the leaves.

Or just time graze it.

On fescue, anything over 45 lbs/ac, if needed, will not be noticeable. There is a study that in adequately fertile soil or healthy soil (however you like to think) that N applications are a waste for fall stockpiling. That's what we see here: total stockpile without additional N.

Issue could be the level of nitrates. Lambsquarter is a concentrator/collector species.

You'd better got to a pecan growers' seminar or read a bit. The market is flat to dropping and all due to foreign efforts. But whatever you want to do.

Look into the future prices of pecans. I think that China or some other country will flood the market in less than 20 years. I believe that increased production in other countries have already impacted the industry.

Why not just do nuts and hunting lease? Skip the cow stuff. Who wants a pecan from a cowpie anyhow?

Tried Estansia, BaroptimaPlus and maybe another one but not Max Q on newly cleared land. In SC, the Max Q I've seen never gets out of the row pattern even after years. A researcher who knows told me it was a first step and the endophyte was not what they really needed. All said, the Persist...

Not interested in fence jumpers and having to de-antler, either.

Bringing in cattle is always a low % success rate if you are 100% honest. The best thing to know is if they shed off quickly in the spring. There are some exceptions. The best option is to AI to selected bulls and let gestational programing help the calves fit. But what I have found is the 25%...

You'd think. But bull buyers often still want the big name sire, the modern bull of the month, ... in spite of what they see on the ground.

They are not forced to eat a diet that is a high % fescue.

I'll likely stick to the practical observations/Bonsma type evaluations here. Slick hair, adequate growth, short calving periods, ... and I'll save $29/head. A 46 or 47 day calving season is good enough for me.

1st one: square stem? Then vervain.

Planted about 30 acres of AU Grazer s. lespedeza in the past couple of years. Great stuff.

In dry times, the stems and extra height create a microclimate for the soil. I honestly believe from experimental clipping some high or not clipping areas adjacent to the mowed areas that the microclimate decreased the impact of surface wind (drying) and increased the dew (unreported...

Might have been said as I did not read all. The easiest spacer off of the ground I ever used when we had outside hay was two power poles side by side, in close enough to straddle with the tractor tires.

Brown top rushes to maturity in spite of management. You can let it reseed to sort of have a second crop but I have never seen it respond well to efforts to curtail maturity. Keep it short and it will make seed heads on short stems. If you have good soil fertility look at a mix of bin run corn...

If you can move them all in one day and have the corral, load them how they get on the trailer and not let them out until they are all back together.