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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1852072" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Well, Scott got the Tifton 85 sprigged about 10 days ago, about 50 of the 100 acres. This fall we will plant Bulldog 505 alfalfa in it, too. The other 50 acres he sowed in Argentina and Pensacola Bahia, and clover. They have had 3 or 4 good heavy rains down there, and both stands are doing great, Soil test came back and all it really needed was a little N. The PH was good for bermuda and bahia, but a tad low for the Alfalfa. Needed to get it from 6.5 to 6.7 before we plant it. This was a peanut field last year.</p><p></p><p>This will be interesting because I have always said that the reason are program works so well, is because there are no inputs with the Corr cows. We don't fertilize the Kudzu place, don't mow it..... zero inputs other than mineral salt. Anything even remotely resembling grass is a few clearings with Johnson Grass and Broome Sage in it. I have said that I don't believe the Corr program would, or could, do any better if we had those cows on well groomed, fertilized, weed-free pasture, and fed them hay supplements, etc. I guess we will see this next year. Still wont fool with vaccinating, worming, etc, and this seed and fertilizer was paid by a grant. Still, we are keeping up with the costs, see if we get bigger and better calves off of these bermuda and bahia pastures, and if so, calculate how much it costs us to get bigger or better. If the rains are good to us and the grass grows like we expect, about July we will bring about 50 more of CLay's boss's Corrs down and put them on it. </p><p></p><p>30-something of those 54 I brought down last week have calved already. All of my 121 have, too. Well, 118. Three of them were yearling heifers when I got them in January,, and they have just now been bred to my Brangus bull. We are pretty well sitting on autopilot right now. I won't have to go down there and do anything til Memorial weekend when we tag and band the May calves. Gonna be a lot with those 50 extra , but Clay will come down and bring another of his boss's cowboys down with him to help. July 4th weekend, we will wean off the January calves for Clay's boss to buy. And will send those 2 bulls back to Scott's brother, and get our 1/2 Gurs-Herf x 1/2 Gyr heifer and bring it back. Then it and Gail's two will go back with Clay and go into his lot that he has at his boss's place. There, they gonna grow on sorghum silage, spent mash from the Buch plant, chicken litter and cotton seed and trash. Clay picks up those 20 Black Simm x ChiAngus heifers in July too, and they going in his lot as well. They will stay there like our half-Brahmas will for about 9 months til it is time to breed them, </p><p></p><p>[USER=43196]@Mark Reynolds[/USER] , I was reading up on Bulldog 505 the other day, and the article talked about how ( I forget his name) down in Tifton developed it and another strain of warm-weather alfalfa, but didn't say what it was called. Do you know of other warm-weather strains of alfalfa? We are about at southern limit for Bulldog. All info on it says for Macon and above, and this place is 25-30 miles south of Macon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1852072, member: 40587"] Well, Scott got the Tifton 85 sprigged about 10 days ago, about 50 of the 100 acres. This fall we will plant Bulldog 505 alfalfa in it, too. The other 50 acres he sowed in Argentina and Pensacola Bahia, and clover. They have had 3 or 4 good heavy rains down there, and both stands are doing great, Soil test came back and all it really needed was a little N. The PH was good for bermuda and bahia, but a tad low for the Alfalfa. Needed to get it from 6.5 to 6.7 before we plant it. This was a peanut field last year. This will be interesting because I have always said that the reason are program works so well, is because there are no inputs with the Corr cows. We don't fertilize the Kudzu place, don't mow it..... zero inputs other than mineral salt. Anything even remotely resembling grass is a few clearings with Johnson Grass and Broome Sage in it. I have said that I don't believe the Corr program would, or could, do any better if we had those cows on well groomed, fertilized, weed-free pasture, and fed them hay supplements, etc. I guess we will see this next year. Still wont fool with vaccinating, worming, etc, and this seed and fertilizer was paid by a grant. Still, we are keeping up with the costs, see if we get bigger and better calves off of these bermuda and bahia pastures, and if so, calculate how much it costs us to get bigger or better. If the rains are good to us and the grass grows like we expect, about July we will bring about 50 more of CLay's boss's Corrs down and put them on it. 30-something of those 54 I brought down last week have calved already. All of my 121 have, too. Well, 118. Three of them were yearling heifers when I got them in January,, and they have just now been bred to my Brangus bull. We are pretty well sitting on autopilot right now. I won't have to go down there and do anything til Memorial weekend when we tag and band the May calves. Gonna be a lot with those 50 extra , but Clay will come down and bring another of his boss's cowboys down with him to help. July 4th weekend, we will wean off the January calves for Clay's boss to buy. And will send those 2 bulls back to Scott's brother, and get our 1/2 Gurs-Herf x 1/2 Gyr heifer and bring it back. Then it and Gail's two will go back with Clay and go into his lot that he has at his boss's place. There, they gonna grow on sorghum silage, spent mash from the Buch plant, chicken litter and cotton seed and trash. Clay picks up those 20 Black Simm x ChiAngus heifers in July too, and they going in his lot as well. They will stay there like our half-Brahmas will for about 9 months til it is time to breed them, [USER=43196]@Mark Reynolds[/USER] , I was reading up on Bulldog 505 the other day, and the article talked about how ( I forget his name) down in Tifton developed it and another strain of warm-weather alfalfa, but didn't say what it was called. Do you know of other warm-weather strains of alfalfa? We are about at southern limit for Bulldog. All info on it says for Macon and above, and this place is 25-30 miles south of Macon. [/QUOTE]
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