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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1468433" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>Establishing alfalfa and putting in a 5 strand fence is speedy, but there are other lower cost ways. I have a lot of converted alot of crop ground with a clover/grass mix and a single strand high tensile fence. You can graze the first fall as long as it is dry or froze.</p><p></p><p>There are some semi reformed dirt farmers going the double crop route. Raise a short season grain crop or spray out an old stand - - then follow with a fall cover crop mix and temporary fence. Too much work for many, and harder to do it the north, but still a good idea if you do not winter on the beach. Keys are seeding early enough to get some tonnage, and including a LITTLE brassica to get the deep rooting for a yield increase next year. If you can cover the OH and make a small profit on the grain crop, and get a nice return on the CC, then the economics/acre change. Cows are not ideal, so if you want to make this extra effective you graze calves on the hi test cover crop.. :nod:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1468433, member: 1715"] Establishing alfalfa and putting in a 5 strand fence is speedy, but there are other lower cost ways. I have a lot of converted alot of crop ground with a clover/grass mix and a single strand high tensile fence. You can graze the first fall as long as it is dry or froze. There are some semi reformed dirt farmers going the double crop route. Raise a short season grain crop or spray out an old stand - - then follow with a fall cover crop mix and temporary fence. Too much work for many, and harder to do it the north, but still a good idea if you do not winter on the beach. Keys are seeding early enough to get some tonnage, and including a LITTLE brassica to get the deep rooting for a yield increase next year. If you can cover the OH and make a small profit on the grain crop, and get a nice return on the CC, then the economics/acre change. Cows are not ideal, so if you want to make this extra effective you graze calves on the hi test cover crop.. :nod: [/QUOTE]
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