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    Spreading seed and fertilizer together.

    Regular lespedeza and services lespedesa, two different animals. Regular is fantastic, service a is a noxious weed, spread by highway departments on right away in Missouri. Once it gets older growth the cattle hate it
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    Pasture mix grass

    WSG should be rolled into a prepared seed bed, the stuff is expensive. I would be afraid of a very low germination rate.
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    Pasture mix grass

    WSG should be rolled into a prepared seed bed, the stuff is expensive. I would be afraid of a very low germination rate.
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    Fix this worn out pasture?

    I know this, when I lime my broom sedge significantly reduces. I would also recommend some 24D with Remedy. Huge improvement
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    Spreading seed and fertilizer together.

    Yes Serecea is a completely different plant and a noxious weed, gets woody and bitter and cattle hate it
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    Pasture mix grass

    Native grass is very tough to start in a worked seed bed with no competition, I wouldn’t waste the money...just my 2 cents
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    Been unrolling hay

    Great read thanks for posting, we feed Bermuda hay and it’s nutritional value I have seen as high as $25. For sake of argument, you can buy hay here for $30 a bale, and you get $14 in nutrients...very hard to pay for hay equipment, time, and fertilizer for the $16 difference. I guess the...
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    Missouri Stocking Rates

    We have one farm that runs a pair for 1.68 acres, 14 paddocks, 3 with Bermuda, and 30 acres of Caucasian. We overseed Bermuda with annual rye, cattle do well. No fescue on the place. Most of our places require 2.5 acres per pair. Sorry if I was unclear.
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    Fix this worn out pasture?

    Spray with Remedy and you will only brush hog once. Lime always reduces the sedge on our farms. If I had to choose between spray and fertilizer I would take spray, nothing cleans a place up faster.
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    Missouri Stocking Rates

    We run cattle outside of Mountain View Mo., southern Mo. is some of the densest cattle country in the US, the state is always in top 5 for total cattle but most of those animals are in the lower 1/3 bellow 54 highway. This provides great access to vets, markets, feed, etc, Very short winters but...
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    Fence Energizer

    My only question, does it have a remote to shut the fence off like my speed rite? I can’t live without the handiness of being able to shut the fence off and on from anywhere?
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    Suggestions for year round grazing

    Our best pasture was an accident, we planted it in Mirage Bermuda and we had a drought year, the field was called a loss by the NRCS. We got help to replant it in the fall, we put in Max Q, crimson clover, and an improved expensive white (name escapes me now). Well in year two the mirage came...
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    Whats your stocking rate?

    Here is my suggestion, Missouri is generally 2nd or 3rd in the nation in beef cattle, but the state is also in the top 4 for corn production. However, the corn country is north of highway 54 that divides the state E to W. The southern 3rd of the state has the majority of the cattle, it is one of...
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    Broomsedge?

    My neighbor has a pasture full of it and it stops at the fence line, the difference is Phosphorus and mor uniform grazing in some combination.
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    Old hay piles

    Well the key is to do something. Either spread it out with a harrow or pile it up. Both will take care of the flies, piling it creates enough heat to kill fly larvae. Spreading it allows it to dry.
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    fescue/native/wild/white clover

    Wow, what a difference...must have been very poor fertility. Thanks for the pictures. Mike
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    New Land and Fescue...

    We have many rental farms within 3 miles of my personal farm. My place has Bermuda, Max Q, Caucasian, and Orchard Grass, and rye paddocKs.The rental places are are all K 31 with 30-50% clover stands. People who "don't have fescue problems don't look at the situation empirically.... In my...
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    What are you willing to PAY ??

    My farm is in southern Missouri as well as my families, wooded ground is around 800-1,000 and pasture ground is in the 1,300-1,500 range.
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    Planting our wintering area

    In southern Missouri we have to remove the trees and then pick the rocks, cheaper to buy pasture! :roll:
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