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Thanks, Dun, for your thoughtful replies. I enjoy reading a lot of the joshing around but value the forum most as a place to ask what some might think simple questions, yet get valuable comments.

Since I buy most of my hay, I am usually low on stored feed by mid-March. Never take the cows off pasture and they lose their interest in hay on warm days pretty early. Is this very harmful to the grass and lower its production? I supplement with a little grain during this transition period...

All things in moderation. The use of fertilizer does increase production but once you start you have to keep it up. Growing tobacco without heavy fertilzation is unprofitable. Hay production also mines the soil and evetually you must fertilze, hopefully with the aid of a soil test. I grow...

Burdock and cocklebur are two separate weeds. Burdock is much larger with bigger leaves and fewer sticky seed heads. I have a few burdocks, like you around the base of barns and hay stacks. They are easily controlled by pulling or the grubbing hoe. Cockleburs are the real problem. They are...

Dun, you are the voice of experience on these boards. Thanks for the information. While we are talking of weeds that adhere to cattle hides - What is that legumy looking plant with tiny purple flowers and a triangular seed pod that sticks to cattle in the fall about sale time? They are only a...

I once got kinda put down on these boards when I said I bushhogged for weed control. Never owned a spayer except a little backpack for spraying ditches along the road to keep them open. Cockleburs are the one weed that really have given me problems. When I came here in 1972 there was not one on...

Our pastures in the Eden shale area of the Outer Bluegrass revert to 1/3 fescue 1/3 bluegrass 1/3 white clover after a few years. We sow orchard grass and ladino on plowed land going back into grass. If it is a field where we might cut hay we substitute red clover for the ladino. There is a...

Hairy Vetch grows well here and needs no innoculation. This is a purple bloom viney legume that volunteers along county roads. It is not the pink bloomed crown vetch the highway department plants along major roads. Broadcast in early fall much like you would small grain. It is good for your...

One thing Kentucky has plenty of is limestone. The last lime I had lime spread was $11 a ton. I expect it has gone to $14 or $15 with the increase in the cost of fuel. High nitrogen use in tobacco production made liming extremely important here. Most of my pasture land runs a pH of about 5.8 to...