Thought I would give you guys an update on our "new land". Cotton1, we're located between Athens and Augusta, GA. and as strange as it may be our little community is called Sandtown for a good reason. The land clearing crew finished up October 12. The only thing they had left to do was burn the 25-30 piles of stumps, roots, and limbs. At that time we hadn't had any rain since mid-August and no rain=no permit=no burning. It seems like we've been on hold forever! We received 3/4" of rain November 13, 2.1" last week, and about an inch so far this week. Burning began this past Monday. They are proceeding cautiously so that neighbors won't have smoke issues/complaints. Burning should be finished by the weekend. My next step is to get lime, chicken litter, and seeds in the ground. I talked with Dr. Hancock, forage specialist at UGA, about my lime issue (soil sample tests recommend 4-5 1/4 tons/acre). Dr. Hancock recommends ALL of it go down at one time and ASAP. I plan to get it all down along with the chicken litter. I'll turn it in with the harrow and drag, cultipack it, sow seeds (ryegrass since it is so late) and cultipack again. Maybe I'll be able to get some cows on it later in the winter. When Spring arrives, I'll turn it again and plan on putting a diverse mix of warm season perennials in. JOGEPHUS recommended Tiff9 bahia and I think I'll try that. NRCS forage specialists recommends some switchgrass. May try that as well along with some seeded type of bermuda and clover. I don't think I would have much luck with fescue (I know it's not a warm season perennial.) and don't want to have to deal with the maintenance of a sprigged hybrid bermuda. So, what do you guys think? Any suggestions, thoughts, comments are encouraged and welcomed.