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If you drill fescue now and it survives, why would you add Bermuda in the spring ? That makes zero sense. Fescue is not an annual. If you plant fescue now , you can not graze it until late next spring/early summer. If you’re dealing with a lack of moisture the grass won’t survive. Grass requires...

$200 an acre or $200 an hour is the going rate here in the SW.

Yes that is how my local forage extension specialist described it till me. Instead of Sudan and Prussic acid. Fall planted oats, Millets and nitrates instead of prussic acid. I don’t think he is correct. But I thought I would ask.

I was told that when oats or Millet die die to a freeze nitrates are released ? I was planning on grazing fall thru winter. Guess we will find out ?

Currently I have cows grazing pearl millet , and plan on planting spring oats this week for fall/winter grazing. My question is. Will nitrates accumulate in fall planted spring oats or pearl millet when it freezes ? Has anyone done this ? Thanks

Here is a crop planted May15th, planted @100 pounds per acre. My yield average if cut every 45 days is around 2 tons per acre, per cutting, 2 1/2 to 3 cuttings per year, 200 pound of 46-0-0 per plant and 100lbs of 46-0-0 after we get the hay out of the field. Fence is more knowledgeable about...

Alfalfa in NM is currently $350-$450 per ton ($12-$14 per small 60lb square bale) I hope I have customers left next year.

I had 2 tons of extra seed that I couldn’t plant this season, or return. Can I feed it ?

Anyone graze Max Q or Drover ? Which is better to graze ? Should I plant it with a drill or Brillion ? Here is a pic of some Max Q hay from a local guy. He is getting some serious tonnage.

1,200 pound 3x4x8 bales. In NM

New Mexico cow hay drought prices. 2 strand bale $9 3 strand bale $15 3x3x8 800 pounds $150 3x4x8 1,200 pounds $200

I wonder how long the economy will hold up? Seems like a crash is going to come. Inflation is everywhere.

Does anyone know where or how to buy fertalizer directly from the manufacturer? Urea is $620 per ton out this way. 11-52 is $670 per ton.

Don’t waste your money. What are you fertilizing?

Anyone graze Teff after a freeze? Will the cows clean it up? A farmer told me the cows will not clean it up in the winter.

How many days between cutting ? This year I could only get a hold of a Sudan x Sorghum cross. I worry because one year it didn’t grow back I did. Something wrong. Maybe cut it to short or because it headed before I could cut it?

Are you cutting it 6 inches off the ground ? I have been doing this for years. A few farmers tell me it doesn’t affect regrowth?

First cutting Triticale SlickTrit 2 variety. Should yield 7 tons of dry hay per acre.

NM and Arizona are in a severe drought. Count the SW out.

11-52 fertalizer 300 lbs per acre twice a year. I get 12 tons of alfalfa an acre a year.