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I use an atv seeder to seed rye grass seed. I have spread it on disked ground, over freshly shelled corn fields, and freshly harvested soybean fields. Our seeder covers about a 15 foot swath. Just have to make sure you do it on a calm day or its difficult telling where your seed will end up. I...

ga. prime, It is generally accepted around here that if you are using roundup to kill the existing vegatation so you can plant, you do that preplant. If you plant before spraying, and your coulters cut a weed off at ground level, then when you spray, you have a much smaller target for that...

We plant 400 acres of no till crops a year and it has been a general rule around here to wait a minimum of 3 days before planting. Most suggest a week if you have the time. If you spray and then cut up the plant such as with the coulters on a planter or drill, the roundup may not have time to...

ALX, I know it would be more accurate to give tons per acre, but i have never weighed our round bales or square bales so that was the most accurate info I could give. True, we have had more rain than average around here this year, but i believe our clover out yielded much of the alfalfa in the...

ALX, was that comment directed towards our yields comment?

We have a New Holland 489 mower with roller conditioner. We try to make sure its set so that the stems are smashed. Its pretty easy to dry. The clover is spread over the top with a seeder on the back of our 4-wheeler. We overseed a wheat field every year.

I don't know for sure what the alfalfa yeilds are for this year in the area, but so we have a 30 acre field of red clover and so far this year have baled 3100 square bales and 246 4x5 round bales off it. Frost seeded it into some wheat in early march of 2007 and baled 163 round bales off it...

Is there any way to stack round bales and store them outside without a tarp. I don't have much space for the hay and i was wondering if anyone had ever done this.

Two weeks ago i was still spraying thistles in pastures. I had one 70 acre pasture to spot spray yet that had always been bad with thistles. When i pulled into with the four wheeler and sprayer "loaded for bear". To my initial disgust, the pasture was loaded with grasshopers jumping everywhere...

The govt. isn't doing the sub leasing, they are just giving the landowner the option of leasing the ground out to anyone the landowner desires if the landowner doesn't want to use it themself. I was hoping to both graze and lease some crp ground from one of our landlords, but a wrench has just...

We frost seed in clover fields each winter. We bale it as many times as long as its growing with no problems. The cows love it and do good on it. After about two cuttings of clover, it usually thins out and fall panicum or foxtail takes its place which we also cut and bale. I see no reason why...

The only cultivating we do is for the sweet corn in the garden. We have about 100 acres of conventional corn on part of one farm that is creek bottom ground. Most everything around here is no tilled. We use bicep II magnum to keep the weeds in check in both the conventional and notill corn. We...

Mowed a field of ryegrass monday the 19th. The 7 day forecast called for a very slight chance of scattered showers on wednesday night into thursday. I figured i would roll the dice and take my chances since friday, saturday, sunday and most of monday were supposed to be in the eighties and...

It's very posssible. We planted annual ryegrass on 12 acres in 2005 and are still cutting and baling off that one planting, although we did reseed three acres of it again this spring. We have sprayed it, disked it under several times, grazed it off in the winter, and it still keeps coming back...

We have always just spread the fertilizer before planting. The no-till coulters on the drill work it in a little and the rest of the fertilizer just waits for a rain. This has worked for us.

Nope, we don't stack any of our square bales of hay. We have enough room in our barns, that are both right at the 100 year old mark, to store 4-5 thousand bales unstacked. Only time we ever touch them is to put them on the conveyor and then to feed them. I don't know if I got any pictures of the...

We have a conveyor that travels the length of the loft in the barn. The conveyor has a tripper on it to knock the bales off where ever you want them to land below. We have a conveyor running from the ground to the barn conveyor and all we do is dump the bales on the ground, put them on the...

We have a New Holland square baler with an ejector that throws the onto a flatbed wagon with hydrolic dump and homemade sides on it. We have two of those wagons so when the person running the baler fills up one wagon, another person replaces it with an empty one and hauls the full one to the...

I talked to the manager at the coop the other day asking about fertilizer prices and at the time they were: urea $482 dap $530 potash $420

Stockpiling fescue has worked out really well for us. We usually graze fescue until somewhere around the end of January and feed hay then until the grass grows. The last five years we have averaged anywhere from 1/2 -1 round bale per cow for the winter. It works well for us.