snoopdog
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Cut 10 acres today, never had this much in the field before, tall and mature. I can't keep it in the pasture, cows always eat it down so they must like it. Anybody test any, just wondering how it compares?
snoopdog said:Cut 10 acres today, never had this much in the field before, tall and mature. I can't keep it in the pasture, cows always eat it down so they must like it. Anybody test any, just wondering how it compares?
Banjo said:Can it be successfully intergrated into fescue/clover pastures?
Banjo said:Can it be successfully intergrated into fescue/clover pastures?
"It also doesn't stockpile well." Would you care to expand on that comment? Do you mean as a summer/fall baled hay crop? Your experience or coffee shop talk? Any whys offered? Does it roll well? Can you cut it closer than 4" unlike SS or JG clippings this time of the year? Asking as I am thinking about adding it to one of my hay patches.... Trying to get away from having to buy seed every year for the SS crop.Bigfoot said:My fescue has has largely been replaced by crabgrass. Partially from over grazing, and partially due to a few droughts/dry spells. Seems like when the drought breaks, the crabgrass out performs the fescue. My place is largely a crabgrass operation. Only down side I see, is how late in the spring it comes. I guess the stars lined up perfectly this year, and it was really really late. It also doesn't stockpile well. I like to broadcast wheat on it. Fills that spring slump.
Texasmark said:"It also doesn't stockpile well." Would you care to expand on that comment? Do you mean as a summer/fall baled hay crop? Your experience or coffee shop talk? Any whys offered? Does it roll well? Can you cut it closer than 4" unlike SS or JG clippings this time of the year? Asking as I am thinking about adding it to one of my hay patches.... Trying to get away from having to buy seed every year for the SS crop.Bigfoot said:My fescue has has largely been replaced by crabgrass. Partially from over grazing, and partially due to a few droughts/dry spells. Seems like when the drought breaks, the crabgrass out performs the fescue. My place is largely a crabgrass operation. Only down side I see, is how late in the spring it comes. I guess the stars lined up perfectly this year, and it was really really late. It also doesn't stockpile well. I like to broadcast wheat on it. Fills that spring slump.
Bigfoot said:Texasmark said:"It also doesn't stockpile well." Would you care to expand on that comment? Do you mean as a summer/fall baled hay crop? Your experience or coffee shop talk? Any whys offered? Does it roll well? Can you cut it closer than 4" unlike SS or JG clippings this time of the year? Asking as I am thinking about adding it to one of my hay patches.... Trying to get away from having to buy seed every year for the SS crop.Bigfoot said:My fescue has has largely been replaced by crabgrass. Partially from over grazing, and partially due to a few droughts/dry spells. Seems like when the drought breaks, the crabgrass out performs the fescue. My place is largely a crabgrass operation. Only down side I see, is how late in the spring it comes. I guess the stars lined up perfectly this year, and it was really really late. It also doesn't stockpile well. I like to broadcast wheat on it. Fills that spring slump.
Gladly......Fescue stockpiles (left standing in the field for winter grazing) extremely well. My cattle really dont care crabgrass, much after the first frost. It makes a nice hay roll for ne, and keeps great outside (equal to fescue, but way better SS). I both cut and graze mine very short. It seems to go to seed well even short...............Mine isn't a seeded variety. It's volunteer. I have planted crabgrass. It either died, or was indiscernible from my native.
Texasmark said:Bigfoot said:Texasmark said:"It also doesn't stockpile well." Would you care to expand on that comment? Do you mean as a summer/fall baled hay crop? Your experience or coffee shop talk? Any whys offered? Does it roll well? Can you cut it closer than 4" unlike SS or JG clippings this time of the year? Asking as I am thinking about adding it to one of my hay patches.... Trying to get away from having to buy seed every year for the SS crop.
Gladly......Fescue stockpiles (left standing in the field for winter grazing) extremely well. My cattle really dont care crabgrass, much after the first frost. It makes a nice hay roll for ne, and keeps great outside (equal to fescue, but way better SS). I both cut and graze mine very short. It seems to go to seed well even short...............Mine isn't a seeded variety. It's volunteer. I have planted crabgrass. It either died, or was indiscernible from my native.
Thanks!
Mine is volunteer also. Just enerted the arena a few years ago. It has been getting my attention the last couple of years, but really got my attention when I did what I said above and all of a sunned boom....heavy growth of CG in a hot summer month.
Wonder how it gets started volunteer if not from seed? Had to be seed from somewhere. My experimenting with attempting to overseed my hay patches with perennial grasses requires a large investment in seed if one wants immediate, comprehensive results. I have 2 seasons here and come 1 June the water usually turns off and the thermometer pegs. Have to have something that likes it hot and dry. SS does that but it's an annual investment and I'd rather put that money into plant food, not plants every year. I'm getting Johnson grass established but at $175 a 50# bag and 50#/AC for what I said above.....kinda pricy. Fast forward the JG will do the trick but in the mean time........