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<blockquote data-quote="novatech" data-source="post: 807596" data-attributes="member: 5494"><p>Caustic; I feel the same as you. I have been researching the sustainable pasture systems for quite some time and somewhat redoing my pastures in those lines. </p><p>I always consider the source of information as to what people have to gain by giving it. Well a few weeks ago I spent a few hours visiting with a man named Gene Sollock in Iola. The man is 84 years old. I could find no way he could profit from any info he gave me. Although he does have to add lime he has not had to a fertilizer in 20 years. Driving up to his house I could see the pastures had stockpiled forage. Even though they were in drought conditions. You can find a lot of good info from him on Utube.</p><p>There are also sites were I am investigating no-till farming and want to apply it to pastures. Here is one with a lot of good info; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/NCATATTRA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/NCATATTRA</a></p><p>The things being used today, as if they were new, are practices that were being used by farmers before commercial fertilizer. I believe we may need to at least partially revert back to some of it.</p><p>Although we read a lot about people that say they do not need to fertilize their pastures I take that with a grain of salt. There is only 1 element of the 3 which can feasible replaced by mother nature. That is N. P an K must be provided first before mother nature can provide the N. There are those that advocate planting deep rooted grasses to bring those elements from deep in the soil to the top but I don't have that many years left in my life. So I do believe there is also some initial expense involved. No I did not forget PH and lime. It is also going to be an expense in some cases.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novatech, post: 807596, member: 5494"] Caustic; I feel the same as you. I have been researching the sustainable pasture systems for quite some time and somewhat redoing my pastures in those lines. I always consider the source of information as to what people have to gain by giving it. Well a few weeks ago I spent a few hours visiting with a man named Gene Sollock in Iola. The man is 84 years old. I could find no way he could profit from any info he gave me. Although he does have to add lime he has not had to a fertilizer in 20 years. Driving up to his house I could see the pastures had stockpiled forage. Even though they were in drought conditions. You can find a lot of good info from him on Utube. There are also sites were I am investigating no-till farming and want to apply it to pastures. Here is one with a lot of good info; [url=http://www.youtube.com/user/NCATATTRA]http://www.youtube.com/user/NCATATTRA[/url] The things being used today, as if they were new, are practices that were being used by farmers before commercial fertilizer. I believe we may need to at least partially revert back to some of it. Although we read a lot about people that say they do not need to fertilize their pastures I take that with a grain of salt. There is only 1 element of the 3 which can feasible replaced by mother nature. That is N. P an K must be provided first before mother nature can provide the N. There are those that advocate planting deep rooted grasses to bring those elements from deep in the soil to the top but I don't have that many years left in my life. So I do believe there is also some initial expense involved. No I did not forget PH and lime. It is also going to be an expense in some cases. [/QUOTE]
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