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<blockquote data-quote="CJohnson" data-source="post: 1059370" data-attributes="member: 13695"><p>I have stockpiled bermudagrass in East Texas this way for the past 6 years or so. It does work and the cows eat it fine. You must graze it short, cut for hay, or shred before fertilizing. I usually put out the fertilizer end of August. Much into September and cool nights will limit how much you can stockpile. How good the quality hold up depends on how much rain we get in the fall. Last year September was wet for us and October and November were very dry. I had lots of volume and quality held up higher than normal. I was able to graze it until mid-January. Most years it is more like end of December. Sometimes you need to start supplementing in December if stools are stacking up. You can use cubes, high protein hay (peanut, alfalfa or similar), or protein tubs. Another thing I have done that works real well is to plant 1/3 of a field in cereal rye / ryegrass and fertilizer the other 2/3 as above for stockpiled bermudagrass. I save this pasture for last when the quality is going down. When I graze this, I give them a long narrow section that has 1/3 cereal rye and 2/3 bermudagrass. Your electric fence has to be hot and I don't push them very hard on grazing it short. I find this much cheaper than hay. In essence you cut out the harvesting cost and the cost of feeding it in the winter. I still have to feed hay in January and February until clover / ryegrass comes on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CJohnson, post: 1059370, member: 13695"] I have stockpiled bermudagrass in East Texas this way for the past 6 years or so. It does work and the cows eat it fine. You must graze it short, cut for hay, or shred before fertilizing. I usually put out the fertilizer end of August. Much into September and cool nights will limit how much you can stockpile. How good the quality hold up depends on how much rain we get in the fall. Last year September was wet for us and October and November were very dry. I had lots of volume and quality held up higher than normal. I was able to graze it until mid-January. Most years it is more like end of December. Sometimes you need to start supplementing in December if stools are stacking up. You can use cubes, high protein hay (peanut, alfalfa or similar), or protein tubs. Another thing I have done that works real well is to plant 1/3 of a field in cereal rye / ryegrass and fertilizer the other 2/3 as above for stockpiled bermudagrass. I save this pasture for last when the quality is going down. When I graze this, I give them a long narrow section that has 1/3 cereal rye and 2/3 bermudagrass. Your electric fence has to be hot and I don't push them very hard on grazing it short. I find this much cheaper than hay. In essence you cut out the harvesting cost and the cost of feeding it in the winter. I still have to feed hay in January and February until clover / ryegrass comes on. [/QUOTE]
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