Grass ain't growing right

[Bigfoot]

Grass just ain't growing this spring. We had a very warm March, and got things rolling. Now it's cold at night, and gloomy all day. My hay field is literally the same height as my pasture. Everything is green, but not growing.

 

[Supa Dexta]

Cloudy days, and cool weather will both do it. Greens up. but does't move.

 

[tom4018]

Grass just ain't growing this spring. We had a very warm March, and got things rolling. Now it's cold at night, and gloomy all day. My hay field is literally the same height as my pasture. Everything is green, but not growing.

Yes it is slow on growing, did seem like clover took a jump since last week. I put some fertilizer on hay ground yesterday.

 

[cowboy43]

Seems like it has been like that since last fall here in central Texas , even the wheat planted for crops was slow to grow,

 

[kenny thomas]

Our grass is the same way. Usually I have turned the cows out by now. We had the driest March on record and this weird cold weather is hurting us also. Suppose to get snow this weekend.

 

[JMJ Farms]

Ground has got to warm up before it will really go. Won't be long BF. Our temps have been low 40s at night and around 75-80 in the evenings. Perfect pneumonia weather.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Our grass ain't growing right either. The 10 inches of snow in the last few days could have something to do with it though. haha

 

[greybeard]

Seems like it has been like that since last fall here in central Texas , even the wheat planted for crops was slow to grow,

Same here, and it sure isn't from lack of water. Grass is definitely green and slowly growing, but I have had to be very vigilant to keep the cows rotated around since pulling the hay rings last month. Supposed to be in mid 40s tonight again, after being in the 80s during daytime for a couple weeks. We had zero winter this year, and I'm beginning to think the lack of a hard freeze has more to do with the slow grow than the current soil temp. I don't think the bahia and bermuda here ever really went into dormancy this 'winter'.

 

[dave_shelby]

Not here, things are growing well. The freeze the night before (20f) nailed some of the local apple guys.

 

[skyhightree1]

Our grass is the same way. Usually I have turned the cows out by now. We had the driest March on record and this weird cold weather is hurting us also. Suppose to get snow this weekend.

Same here its insane. I wish it would get warm and stay warm.

 

[ez14]

It would help my grass if it quit snowing

Id also like building my fence better if i could do it dry

 

[dun]

Our grass is the same way. Usually I have turned the cows out by now. We had the driest March on record and this weird cold weather is hurting us also. Suppose to get snow this weekend.

Same here its insane. I wish it would get warm and stay warm.

Wouldn;t help much here. You have to have rain to get anythign to grow well. It's growing but more like it does in october and november, not like spring

 

[ez14]

Our grass is the same way. Usually I have turned the cows out by now. We had the driest March on record and this weird cold weather is hurting us also. Suppose to get snow this weekend.

Same here its insane. I wish it would get warm and stay warm.

Wouldn;t help much here. You have to have rain to get anythign to grow well. It's growing but more like it does in october and november, not like spring

It would help a lot here we got all kinds of snow and rain i will have to keep my heifers off the new pasture for a while :frowns:

 

[skyhightree1]

Our grass is the same way. Usually I have turned the cows out by now. We had the driest March on record and this weird cold weather is hurting us also. Suppose to get snow this weekend.

Same here its insane. I wish it would get warm and stay warm.

Wouldn;t help much here. You have to have rain to get anythign to grow well. It's growing but more like it does in october and november, not like spring

Come get some rain its been raining here every other day basically raining now actually and supposed to snow Saturday.

 

[dun]

It will turn off eventually. Then you;ll wish it would start again.

 

[skyhightree1]

lol very true.. However, We had some good snows so im good with no more snow now.

 

[ez14]

It will turn off eventually. Then you;ll wish it would start again.

yup wish it would just average out over the whole year :nod:

 

[wbvs58]

This past summer we had good regular rain up until Feb. I started noticing about early December that our summer grasses were not growing. To me the temps seemed normal even if a bit warmer. We had good clover all summer until heat and dry in Feb knocked it and the weights of calves have never been higher. When the clover died in Feb we virtually had no feed left. The paspalum and kikuyu and digit grass just grew pathetically, even the undesirable Love grass did not grow as thick. We did not have any major rain event but regular rain. The previous summer the rain was similar and the summer grasses had never been better.
I think plants have more intelligence than we give them credit for and will respond to how the season is going to be a lot further ahead, I just don't know what their thinking was re last summer.

Ken

 

[herofan]

I'm glad you mentioned it, because I had noticed the same thing. My hay fields are really green, but just not growing.

 

[jallen]

My grass looks great but the growth is slow as can be. Putting out fertililizer today--probably wont get a rain for the rest of the month now. Our temps are very cool overall for this time of year--need some warm weather to get it going good.