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Good Shade Trees for Cattle???
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<blockquote data-quote="novatech" data-source="post: 389216" data-attributes="member: 5494"><p>Cedar trees are great but there is a downside. Cedar trees tap the water and nutrients for a great distance away from the drip line. They are also invasive as their seeds sprout up all over the pasture. </p><p>Planting trees for shade is a very long term project that maybe only your grandchildren may reep the benifits from. </p><p>If you need shade now I would suggest a shade arbor, the same type they have at a nursery. They do not suck valuable nutrients or water from your pasture. But then they don,t add any value to the property either.</p><p>I have cedars hackberry and other trees growing in some fence lines on lease property that adjoin my hay meadow. After planting haygrazer I could almost imeadiatly see the effects the trees had on the grass production. In some areas some 80 feet into the meadow. I then built a deep running chisel plow and cut the roots on the hay field side. I re- fertilized along that same line and the grass caught up with the rest of the field.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novatech, post: 389216, member: 5494"] Cedar trees are great but there is a downside. Cedar trees tap the water and nutrients for a great distance away from the drip line. They are also invasive as their seeds sprout up all over the pasture. Planting trees for shade is a very long term project that maybe only your grandchildren may reep the benifits from. If you need shade now I would suggest a shade arbor, the same type they have at a nursery. They do not suck valuable nutrients or water from your pasture. But then they don,t add any value to the property either. I have cedars hackberry and other trees growing in some fence lines on lease property that adjoin my hay meadow. After planting haygrazer I could almost imeadiatly see the effects the trees had on the grass production. In some areas some 80 feet into the meadow. I then built a deep running chisel plow and cut the roots on the hay field side. I re- fertilized along that same line and the grass caught up with the rest of the field. [/QUOTE]
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