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<blockquote data-quote="1982vett" data-source="post: 618685" data-attributes="member: 7795"><p>I think it would be difficult to get one type of pasture to grow grass for all seasons without the need of one seasons grasses causing problems for another seasons grasses. Just as one utilizes rotational grazing you can have pastures with grasses that you can rotate to throughout the seasons (In a lot of places). You are looking for something to bridge a gap from now to the end of February. Ryegrass will do that down here. As bigbull and others have said, ryegrass pasture in your area could have been started as early as September, October for sure. With just a little planning in your pasture rotation you have to pick a plot and do your planting so when January rolls around it its ready to receive your grazers. The only thing that needs to be considered is economics. Is prepairing winter pastures worth the expense.</p><p></p><p>For example, I have 50 acres I plant in oats between mid-September and October, burr clover and ryegrass volunteers on these plots. Depending on rains I can start grazing them by Thanksgiving. The are usually grazed down by about this time of the year when they are let on 50 acres of bermuda hay fields that ryegrass and clover has volunteered (or been seeded) on. This carries them to the end of February to mid-March when they are fertilized for hay production. Meanwhile the main pastures (which are a mix of KR bluestem, bermuda, clovers, rescue, ryegrass, bahaia, and anything else that grows here) are beginning to green up and the oats has had time to grow a bit and they are back on them till it plays out. Around June the oats long gone, the ryegrass and clover has had a chance to reseed and it gets chiesel plowed to get ready for fall. Hay is made off the bermuda and regrowth of ryegrass, fertilized and bermuda is taken again. If more hay is needed I will fertilize again if weather co-operatates other wise the cows will get to graze it till August when weather is re-evaluated. Fertilize then if I think it will rain and can still bale into October and November.</p><p></p><p>Long story short. I have three types of pasture. One is tilled for cool season forage. Another is for hay production and cool season forage. And the last is to go from spring to fall. Summer pastures are about 35 acres each, Hay is about 10 - 15 acres each, and oats are 8 - 10 acres each.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1982vett, post: 618685, member: 7795"] I think it would be difficult to get one type of pasture to grow grass for all seasons without the need of one seasons grasses causing problems for another seasons grasses. Just as one utilizes rotational grazing you can have pastures with grasses that you can rotate to throughout the seasons (In a lot of places). You are looking for something to bridge a gap from now to the end of February. Ryegrass will do that down here. As bigbull and others have said, ryegrass pasture in your area could have been started as early as September, October for sure. With just a little planning in your pasture rotation you have to pick a plot and do your planting so when January rolls around it its ready to receive your grazers. The only thing that needs to be considered is economics. Is prepairing winter pastures worth the expense. For example, I have 50 acres I plant in oats between mid-September and October, burr clover and ryegrass volunteers on these plots. Depending on rains I can start grazing them by Thanksgiving. The are usually grazed down by about this time of the year when they are let on 50 acres of bermuda hay fields that ryegrass and clover has volunteered (or been seeded) on. This carries them to the end of February to mid-March when they are fertilized for hay production. Meanwhile the main pastures (which are a mix of KR bluestem, bermuda, clovers, rescue, ryegrass, bahaia, and anything else that grows here) are beginning to green up and the oats has had time to grow a bit and they are back on them till it plays out. Around June the oats long gone, the ryegrass and clover has had a chance to reseed and it gets chiesel plowed to get ready for fall. Hay is made off the bermuda and regrowth of ryegrass, fertilized and bermuda is taken again. If more hay is needed I will fertilize again if weather co-operatates other wise the cows will get to graze it till August when weather is re-evaluated. Fertilize then if I think it will rain and can still bale into October and November. Long story short. I have three types of pasture. One is tilled for cool season forage. Another is for hay production and cool season forage. And the last is to go from spring to fall. Summer pastures are about 35 acres each, Hay is about 10 - 15 acres each, and oats are 8 - 10 acres each. [/QUOTE]
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