Aeration

[Beef11]

Do any of you ever aerate your pastures? I have an aerator i used to make extra scratch in college it made alot of sense for lawns. It might wake a pasture up as well.

 

[Green Creek]

We did it once and didn't see any benefit from it.

 

[dun]

There are differing opinions on how it works. Seems like it a soil type specific issue. The U of MO did some studys and it didn;t do any good. I don;t know if they only did the Ozarks with it's heavy clay soils or they tried it anywhere else.

 

[hurleyjd]

Here is a post from Gabby about a hay king renavotor. Results look pretty good to me.
Jack H.
This spring I bought a Hay King renovator but I didn't use it much because it's been so dry.

I just noticed this spot where I did make a pass with it. All the grass is still green where it ran and the other grass around it is wilted. It's bahia grass.

I made this pass in April, and you can see how the grass died where the shanks ran due to the drought, but the grass between the rows is still green so it must have done some good.