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With rotational grazing you want to be able to keep them in a paddock for several days to a day or 2. To give you an idea on stocking rate, I run 25 mature cows on 2 AC paddocks and rotate every other day. A good rule of thumb for grass growth is 250lbs per inch per acre of dry matter. That's...

Thank yal for the advice. I believe I will go threw with grazing them in the woods next summer only to give pastures a rest for a short time.

There's not whole lot of grass besides sum short fine leaf grass. But there's lots of shrubs and foliage on saplings that they seem to like. I do plan in the near future to clear out the bottom section of the woods and I estimate that would be enough space for 5ac or so for grass.

Thanks for all the replies. I have 30 head of angus rite now but i want to work my way to 40 then maybe 50 sum day. I don't have the machinary to clear land with rite now. What I'm mainly looking at is using those woods for a week or two at a time to give my pastures a rest before I rotate them...

I have about 15 to 20ac of mostly fescue pasture. But I have about 100ac of good mature forest that I would like to look into grazing them on. It's mostly hilly terrain with a few bottoms. I would like advice on how Yal would stock it, how the cattle would do on it and ect. It will be used in my...

You should go ahead and clip your fescue. By this time of year and as tall as you say it is it is Likly to stemmy to be palatable and its lost most of it nutrient value. If you clip it between 5 to 6in youl leave plenty of leaf area where it can collect sun and store nutrients in its roots. If...

Well I def don't want to throw my money away and I can't devote any 1 field to a single grass. So would Bermuda be my best wsg option in my fescue pastures or would another work better. I just need a good mix to help get my herd threw the summer forage slump, and hopefully get a nice summer...

I really don't have any other option but to plant them into my fescue pastures and hay fields. I don't have enough fields to have WSG in 1 and CSG in the other. Is there anything I can do to help them cohabitate with each other, such as plant them directly after first cutting of fescue in may so...

I am looking into planting sum native warm season grasses into my pastures and hay fields that are dominated by my cool season grasses like fescue. My goal is for a longer grazing season and an extra cutting in the summer. I would like to get other producers inputs on planting and growing them...

2lbs of white clover and 4lbs red clover per acre.

Go with ky31, hands down. Its a great grass forage for your herd. Its more drought tolerant, and tolerates closer grazing better. Fescue has caught a bad rap in the past few years bc ppl are scared of the endophyte fungus thats found in the plant. However there are a few things that greatly...

Both urea and ammoniam nitrate are great N fertilizers, both have there advantages. I prefer urea in the spring bc it is fairly stable with cool temps and adequte mosture. The big advantage i see in urea is the pounds of N per bag compared to ammonium nitrate witch is 34% per bag compared to...

I just finished spreading #2500 of 46 urea on my pastures, at a rate of 100 lbs/ac. Fert prices here was 624 for a ton of urea.

Alrite, thanks

i took all day sat to move our new hay bales and get them covered. then took me most of sunday to spread all that seed. looks like il spend another sat discing it in. How dry would you think it would need to be before i start discing? i would like to get a jump start on it by wed or thur. Thanks

Alrite, thanks i appriciate the video. I just need it to dry up a bit from the 48hrs of straight rain weve had.

Alrite, well then il start dicsing in the seed this weekend when the ground dries up a bit. Thanks for all the advise yal

Last night i was rumaging threw the old wooded part of the barnlot, and came across an old cultipacker, from back in papaws time i rekon. So i hooked it up and drug it threw the front field to see if it was usable, and it turns out to work fine. So, i did sum research and found out the uses for...

Thats a no can do for most of the fields i seeded. I would have to transport them across a major hiway and put up fences in these fields. But i could do that for 1 of those fields, and that maybe something il do. I was going to use said field for stockpiling, but i have enough hay and getting a...

So would it be a good decision to spray about 1-1.5 pints per acre of 2-4d in the fields to help combate the cool season weeds to give the stand a better start?