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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1359381" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>I'm finding this thread very interesting. Traditionally we just feed stockpiled grasses over winter and then try to hang on until we get some summer growth in late spring by putting out protein lick blocks and molasses/urea mixes but sometimes I think that is just comfort food for the person dishing it out thinking they are helping out. Forage crops are grown in some areas but very little around me as you have to put a lot into the soil to get anything out and there is a mentality of zero inputs. I've been inspired by what i read here and over the past year I have put together some basic hay gear and I want to have a bit of a go at doing my own hay, I did about 350 small squares of millet last year which worked out well and was very useful and now I have a round baler. I have a patch of oats that I have been grazing and I'm locking it up now to bale and I'm putting in some millet in a couple of months which I plan to bale. My biggest problem will be getting it dry, I think a wrapper might be a good investment.</p><p>As well as getting me through the tail end of winter in better shape, our soil is very light and the season in summer can go belly up very quickly if we get e few weeks in the heat of summer without rain and I see conserving a bit of forage useful to smooth out things if the season goes belly up and I don't have to knock my pastures around.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1359381, member: 16453"] I'm finding this thread very interesting. Traditionally we just feed stockpiled grasses over winter and then try to hang on until we get some summer growth in late spring by putting out protein lick blocks and molasses/urea mixes but sometimes I think that is just comfort food for the person dishing it out thinking they are helping out. Forage crops are grown in some areas but very little around me as you have to put a lot into the soil to get anything out and there is a mentality of zero inputs. I've been inspired by what i read here and over the past year I have put together some basic hay gear and I want to have a bit of a go at doing my own hay, I did about 350 small squares of millet last year which worked out well and was very useful and now I have a round baler. I have a patch of oats that I have been grazing and I'm locking it up now to bale and I'm putting in some millet in a couple of months which I plan to bale. My biggest problem will be getting it dry, I think a wrapper might be a good investment. As well as getting me through the tail end of winter in better shape, our soil is very light and the season in summer can go belly up very quickly if we get e few weeks in the heat of summer without rain and I see conserving a bit of forage useful to smooth out things if the season goes belly up and I don't have to knock my pastures around. Ken [/QUOTE]
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