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<blockquote data-quote="rocfarm" data-source="post: 1770001" data-attributes="member: 42715"><p>No experience. My place has some Klein grass, KR Bluestem, common Bermuda, and then a mix of natives. Before the drought we usually had a decent amount of Texas winter grass. </p><p></p><p>Different ways to approach what you are trying to do. The expensive option is to try to use equipment to make the land do what you want it to do. Every time I looked at that option it seemed like a money loser. </p><p></p><p>The better option seems to be to try to slowly use your cattle to encourage your land to go in the direction you would like, and, at most, to simply buy some native seed mixes and put them out cheaply during the winter and see if anything sticks. However, the soil PH, bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi, and other soil life tend to decide what can grow there anyway, I think. I tried for three years to get certain things to grow and was not successful in any meaningful way. Example: I put out some special silver river clover and yellow clover mix and let it go to seed in the spring and early summer. It had myriad seed heads and looked great. I thought it would begin to grow voluntarily on the spots where I planted it, at least. No such luck. Just an expensive food plot. And the deer are just as happy with plain old oats in the plot. </p><p></p><p>So maybe just manage around what you have and hope it improves bit by bit with proper grazing rotation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rocfarm, post: 1770001, member: 42715"] No experience. My place has some Klein grass, KR Bluestem, common Bermuda, and then a mix of natives. Before the drought we usually had a decent amount of Texas winter grass. Different ways to approach what you are trying to do. The expensive option is to try to use equipment to make the land do what you want it to do. Every time I looked at that option it seemed like a money loser. The better option seems to be to try to slowly use your cattle to encourage your land to go in the direction you would like, and, at most, to simply buy some native seed mixes and put them out cheaply during the winter and see if anything sticks. However, the soil PH, bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi, and other soil life tend to decide what can grow there anyway, I think. I tried for three years to get certain things to grow and was not successful in any meaningful way. Example: I put out some special silver river clover and yellow clover mix and let it go to seed in the spring and early summer. It had myriad seed heads and looked great. I thought it would begin to grow voluntarily on the spots where I planted it, at least. No such luck. Just an expensive food plot. And the deer are just as happy with plain old oats in the plot. So maybe just manage around what you have and hope it improves bit by bit with proper grazing rotation. [/QUOTE]
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