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There are two times to be worried about prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) in Johnsongrass... Live standing johnsongrass that's been frosted-- when it turns dark after a frost, give it about a week to make sure the prussic acid comes out of it before you turn the cows in on it. The other time...

Depends on what your goals are... Natives will produce without fertilizer, or with very little, that much is true. They also won't produce anywhere near as much as improved grasses that are heavily fertilized. They won't do the same thing that a heavily fertilized bermudagrass field will...

Yeah I've had the same situation from the other side of the coin... A guy come asked me to come bale his place. Bottomland with a lot of weeds and stuff, older grass, etc. would be better off brush hogging it but he wants something to show for it besides a check paid for shredding. SO I look...

No rain here in 5 weeks. We got just enough of a shower yesterday to wet the pavement. The raindrops turned to dustballs as soon as it hit the driveway. Sandy spots burning up, the rest is green but SHORT. Not a thing I can do about it tho... Could be worse... I could have crops in the...

Nice enough folks and they seemed to pretty well know their stuff; gave me some good resource material and information. The NRCS guys/gals were a LOT better to work with than our FSA ladies/guy have become. The FSA folks are downright p!ssy and don't want to leave their chair without an...

Ah, Ok, dousing... Dowsing, however you spell it... gotcha... One of Dad's buddies he grew up with showed me that trick one time in the oilpatch... only he used brazing rods. Said that's how his old man used to find drilling sites for oil, because the faults under the earth where the oil...

Hey Jogee how do you find 'underground creeks' with a coat hanger?? I'd like to try that! I hear ya baldy!! I looked into cost share with NRCS twice and each time I couldn't get out of there fast enough... too much red tape for me, and the way they wanted everything done would have ended...

The best wiper for the money is the Spiedel Weed Wiper advertised the the back of the farm magazines. It's a 2 inch PVC pipe with 2 rows of holes drilled in it along the complete length of it, with a heavy canvas cloth tightly wrapped around it and a hose bib on one end (for vaccuum/drip...

With input and land prices going the way their going, the only thing you can really make any money at growing on a farm nowdays is houses. Everybody seems pretty cheery right now, even with these exhorbitant prices, because calves are over a dollar at the sale barn, corn has been around...