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Rotational grazing has a huge learning curve, but can give tremendous benefits. There are grazing charts or you can make one with a calendar to keep track of your moves and can get a history of pasture performance that will help plan for the future grazing. Just starting out you have to just...

I may never achieve year round grazing, but the goal is to reduce hay usage. I believe the hardest thing is getting the correct stock density and getting the right calving season. The other is realizing you will need to spend the time moving and adjusting temporary fencing to graze and develop...

I checked into a custom grazing contract and this fellow was in SE Iowa and he wanted a $1.20/hd per day for a year. He furnished mineral and winter feed.

You should be able to clear a fence line even if it is highly erodible soil. You will need to confirm this with NRCS, but should have no problem if it is going back into pasture. If you have multiple species of livestock, I would go with the high tensile woven wire. All fence is high priced...

I would disagree with the others on making money raising hay on $45 an acre rent. It depends on the tonnage. It is too far for me personally to go for raising hay. In the long run it would be easier to plant to corn or beans.

Dun is correct. I believe it is too late to put N on the field. It may do more to stunt the clover. Good Luck!

We need to have a plan in place for drought. I don't think anyone could have planned for the length of the drought this year in the south. I believe most times it is economically unfeasible to feed thru a drought( or a long drought). Plan to sell cattle, hire a custom grazer out of the drought...

The best thing will be to Manage intensive Grazing and possibly move up to High Density grazing(Mob Grazing). Get a some of Jim Gerrish's books..Look up: American Grazing Land Services

i'm glad to here that you were able to get fescue up in a timely manner. Your area is probably the closest with hay to the drought area. The biggest problem is the drought area encompasses a larger area than what your area will be able to supply in hay.

I would suggest staying away from the fescue hay this year. It is highly likely that most was mowed and baled tooooo late, because it stayed too wet in the areas where there is hay. Too wet too long means over mature most likely. You might be able to buy straw bales and ammoniate them with...

You can feed the alfalfa just like grass hay, but you really need to drop the intake bake to 20 -25#/ day to be affordable. I would suggest feeding it along with the grass hay. 1 to 1 ratio or 2 to 1 ratio of grass bales to alfalfa depending on the quality of the grass. If the cows or calves...

My chargers are 110 volt chargers and I've only sent them in once for a lightning strike. Most of the time mine have been fried by power surges on the input side of the boards. i use surge protectors but they have failed. My point is that chargers can fail from either fence strikes or power...

I bought a Stafix this spring it's a 12 Joule (X12i) 90mile/500 acre with a remote shutoff. The remote shutoff worked the first day and hasn't worked since that day, but it is a great voltage tester. I just haven't called to see what I need to do to get that to work. I have a Cyclops 12 joule...

Most all of the Chemicals discussed are made by Dow Agro science. I would see about contacting a chemical representative for Dow and see what will work the best to accomplish the goal. If it does not work the first time, you should get additional product for respray at no charge or a lower...

Just got another 8 tenths here in the last hour. The good news is I didn't mow alfalfa yesterday. Bad news is I was planning on mowing tomorrow. I apologize to those that really need the rain. Mother nature is so cruel at times. More bad news the resQue squad just went by so I'll say a Hail Mary.

Too bad you can't move them oaks around the pasture. :D

GPS would not help with trees as you fall asleep from being bored out of your mind sitting there not steering and then you hit the tree. My patches are not even big enough to use GPS anything that is big enough is in corn and soybeans.

I believe you are thinking of a surfactant being added such as crop oil or on a non ionic surfactant. Emulsifiers are usually already in the herbicides. The surfactants help the chemicals to stick to the leaves especially leaves with waxy surfaces to allow better absorbtion into the leaf tissue.

Just came back in and showering here. Finally got all of the waterways and some pasture baled up yesterday. I have not looked at the forecast, but it would be nice to see it cool down. I believe everyone in this area would have been happy to have shared some of our moisture with the people...

:lol2: I know what you mean driving in IL is scary between the bad roads, bad drivers, distracted drivers (texting) and the fuel taxes so we can maintain the bad roads and the bad drivers at our current level. I'll check and see about getting a firm price. I might be coming out that way in...