Establish Grass for Cattle

[bfarm]

Long story short, bought my land 3 years ago, it was a pine stand that we cleared (left ~10 trees per acre). Wanting to establish some good Bermuda grass for cattle in the future. Plan to start with some soil test and control burn/liming next winter/spring. Any other suggestions? Best seed for south central Arkansas?

 

[Mrcopier]

Get a soil sample and see how much lime you'll need. Pine has a lot of acidic soils

 

[Warren Allison]

Long story short, bought my land 3 years ago, it was a pine stand that we cleared (left ~10 trees per acre). Wanting to establish some good Bermuda grass for cattle in the future. Plan to start with some soil test and control burn/liming next winter/spring. Any other suggestions? Best seed for south central Arkansas?

Hi, @bfarm , and welcome to CT. You need to open up your profile, and add south central; Arkansas as your location. It will save everyone asking you every time you ask a question or post a comment.

 

[Warren Allison]

Long story short, bought my land 3 years ago, it was a pine stand that we cleared (left ~10 trees per acre). Wanting to establish some good Bermuda grass for cattle in the future. Plan to start with some soil test and control burn/liming next winter/spring. Any other suggestions? Best seed for south central Arkansas?

Do your soil test now, If it needs lime, go ahead and do it now, too, instead of spring. It takes this stuff months to start to raise PH.

 

[Little Joe]

@bfarm, I'm in North Central Arkansas and I've planted common Bermuda and been very happy with it. I don't try for a solid stand or f Bermuda though, I have a mixture of warm season grasses as well as fescue.

 

[coachg]

Not a Bermuda expert but folks around here do sprigs instead of seed . Someone on the forum will know and can advise you better than I can . Soil test now like Warren said and get your lime/ fertilizer out sooner than later . Especially the lime if needed.

 

[Little Joe]

Long story short, bought my land 3 years ago, it was a pine stand that we cleared (left ~10 trees per acre). Wanting to establish some good Bermuda grass for cattle in the future. Plan to start with some soil test and control burn/liming next winter/spring. Any other suggestions? Best seed for south central Arkansas?

Now is the time to lime, go ahead and soil test. Extension office can have results from samples back in about 2 weeks, then lime to specs. If it's been in pine, I would suspect it will take a few years of liming to get the ph where it needs to be. I've had good results seeding common Bermuda, never done any sprigging.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Welcome to the boards. Thanks for adding your location. I'm sure getting asked to add your location when you JUST TOLD us where you are. But - we won't remember the next time you post a new question. Very difficult to answer MANY questions without a location. We have an extreme variance in our pasture managements, and health management issues.