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    Lesson learned, double label herbicides

    Clethodim has a very strong smell imo. Ive done it and learned, write on the jug with a marker and keep an inventory of what you have. Then if a label comes off you can print one out. Labels are important.
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    When to rotate grazing?

    If they are only eating the good stuff you either need to up the stocking rate or shrink the paddock. Moving them out before the best grasses and spots are overgrazed and mowing will also do the trick, but thats more time and expense. Can you shrink the paddocks down with poly wire?
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    Spraying Fence

    I can respect that. We enrolled a bunch of low lying ground in Crep. The reasons were multiple, erosion control, stream buffers, wildlife, etc. The majority of our fence is at woods edge in Pennsylvania so Im just trying to keep a defined line. The reason for 24d and round up is its leftover...
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    Spraying Fence

    Spraying fencelines today with 24d and roundup. Got to wondering if anyone has ever had trouble with spray eating away at the wire? We've never had a problem much ourselves but I could see it being possible.....just curious to everyones experience.
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    Grazing Rye?

    Thanks!
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    Grazing Rye?

    I'm trying to change my ways and get to feeding less bales every year. I'll admit old habits are hard to break but I'm motivated by the results so far. Anyhow my question - I planted some rye to graze in the spring, also turned them in on it late fall. They did well ( cow /calf operation ) on it...
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    fence testers

    Guess I'm old fashioned but a long piece of grass is what I use.
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    When is alfalfa dry enough to bale?

    Moisture tester, plain and simple. There is no guessing then. Bale at about 13% for dry hay and 18 - 20 when we wrap them.
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    Teff grass hay

    Anyone using this stuff? It's a annual grass comparable to timothy. Supposed to get 3 cuts off it. You sow it May - July. Thought it would be good for wheat fields? looking for opinions.
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    A dumb question

    Any local guys willing to take it off?
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