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Fescue stockpile guys....need advice
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<blockquote data-quote="Midtenn" data-source="post: 1551857" data-attributes="member: 24781"><p>Ok here's the deal. I have an adjoining farm I lease but we have to get the cattle out sept thru mid jan. (deer hunting). So cattle are off it now. My plan was to start grazing it in early to mid march to save hay. We're talking pretty intensive 50 pairs on 70-80 acres no fertilizer. This place would be rotated all year with 3 other smaller pastures say 35 acres each. Which they are on two of those smaller ones right now. </p><p> So what happened was I pulled them off pretty early last year late August and we got lots of rain. It got really mature see pictures. The dead stuff is johnsongrass. Fescue and natives underneath. so now I'm thinking I need to go ahead and graze it now rather than wait. Thinking it needs to be eaten down in order to grow better come spring. ?? Due to cows being in separate breeding pastures I would only have about 25 pair to put on it right now. I'm thinking this is just going to save hay now rather than save hay in march. Pros/ cons ? Thoughts and advice appreciated.</p><p><a href="https://postimg.cc/Bt3xsS4Y" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/Bt3xsS4Y/image.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimages.org/" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/4n1pxD3J/image.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Midtenn, post: 1551857, member: 24781"] Ok here's the deal. I have an adjoining farm I lease but we have to get the cattle out sept thru mid jan. (deer hunting). So cattle are off it now. My plan was to start grazing it in early to mid march to save hay. We're talking pretty intensive 50 pairs on 70-80 acres no fertilizer. This place would be rotated all year with 3 other smaller pastures say 35 acres each. Which they are on two of those smaller ones right now. So what happened was I pulled them off pretty early last year late August and we got lots of rain. It got really mature see pictures. The dead stuff is johnsongrass. Fescue and natives underneath. so now I'm thinking I need to go ahead and graze it now rather than wait. Thinking it needs to be eaten down in order to grow better come spring. ?? Due to cows being in separate breeding pastures I would only have about 25 pair to put on it right now. I'm thinking this is just going to save hay now rather than save hay in march. Pros/ cons ? Thoughts and advice appreciated. [url=https://postimg.cc/Bt3xsS4Y][img]https://i.postimg.cc/Bt3xsS4Y/image.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://i.postimg.cc/4n1pxD3J/image.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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