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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 956859" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>We only have 27 acres of WSG. It is time consuming to establish. Our cows wouldn;t eat the stuff until I learned a trick. Turn them in when it's only 6 inches high and rotate them every few days. We break the field into smaller sections with polywire and graze it in rotation June through July and a little into Aug. In non-drought years it will grow dense and 6 foot tall by the first freeze. After the first freeze I brush hog it to a foot or so in swaths so you can see far enough to hunt it. Then we don;t touch it (we alwasy plan on burning it in the spring when the volenteer fescue starts but by then the winds are too high and it never get it done). Then by early june it's up about 6 inches or so and we start rotating them through it. We've only done it for the past 3 years, beofre that we hayed it. It was always rough but through the winters its gotten to the point that you can only drive on it at a crawl and it still trips the disc mower. Spend more time resetting it then I do mowing.</p><p>The previous owner used to disc it at 30 miles an hour I think. Every 10 feet was a foot tall ridge. I disced it back and forth and cross ways and dragged it then disced it again. Planted WW in it one year then disced it and drug it again. Those ridges still seem to pop up and get worse every year. Now that it's permanenetly in WSG I can't disc it and try to smooth it anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 956859, member: 34"] We only have 27 acres of WSG. It is time consuming to establish. Our cows wouldn;t eat the stuff until I learned a trick. Turn them in when it's only 6 inches high and rotate them every few days. We break the field into smaller sections with polywire and graze it in rotation June through July and a little into Aug. In non-drought years it will grow dense and 6 foot tall by the first freeze. After the first freeze I brush hog it to a foot or so in swaths so you can see far enough to hunt it. Then we don;t touch it (we alwasy plan on burning it in the spring when the volenteer fescue starts but by then the winds are too high and it never get it done). Then by early june it's up about 6 inches or so and we start rotating them through it. We've only done it for the past 3 years, beofre that we hayed it. It was always rough but through the winters its gotten to the point that you can only drive on it at a crawl and it still trips the disc mower. Spend more time resetting it then I do mowing. The previous owner used to disc it at 30 miles an hour I think. Every 10 feet was a foot tall ridge. I disced it back and forth and cross ways and dragged it then disced it again. Planted WW in it one year then disced it and drug it again. Those ridges still seem to pop up and get worse every year. Now that it's permanenetly in WSG I can't disc it and try to smooth it anymore. [/QUOTE]
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