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<blockquote data-quote="dwa" data-source="post: 1384303" data-attributes="member: 18609"><p>I'm in the process of clearing about 30 acres myself. And I'm also in the same area as you. McCormick County SC. Why do you think you wouldn't have much luck with fescue? Is it the sand? Fescue is awesome (well not this year but what else has been good?). Sounds like you already have some warm season grasses, why wouldn't you try to get some areas established for cool season? Stockpiling grass for the winter is so much easier than feeding hay and fescue is great for that. Another way to look at it is that I don't know anyone who runs out of grass in the summer when it is raining(fescue or not), but I know a lot of people that do in the winter.</p><p></p><p>I bought a trackhoe to stump the land and then hiring out a bulldozer to rake and pile. I have about 10 acres done I planted early October in rye and rye grass with half inch of rain and it came up. No rain for 38 days and then received 7 tenths. A lot of it was turning yellow and wasn't expecting much out of it but now it looks great! I have not got a soil test on it yet, but I put down about 2 tons of lime and chicken litter per acre before seeding. This is land that used to be soybean fields 40 years ago but was put into CRP and grew up in pines.</p><p></p><p>I have another 10 acres I didn't get done until about the middle of November and just seeded rye grass on it to get the ground covered. Still need to burn the piles in it. It is starting to get a green tint to the field.</p><p></p><p>My plans are to plant annuals for a year or so and then put in fescue and clover and hopefully have some summer type grasses mixed in. Some areas had a lot of Johnson grass and yellow foxtail in them this summer. I plan on doing milling next summer. I figured it would help smooth the fields to go over them 2-3 times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dwa, post: 1384303, member: 18609"] I'm in the process of clearing about 30 acres myself. And I'm also in the same area as you. McCormick County SC. Why do you think you wouldn't have much luck with fescue? Is it the sand? Fescue is awesome (well not this year but what else has been good?). Sounds like you already have some warm season grasses, why wouldn't you try to get some areas established for cool season? Stockpiling grass for the winter is so much easier than feeding hay and fescue is great for that. Another way to look at it is that I don't know anyone who runs out of grass in the summer when it is raining(fescue or not), but I know a lot of people that do in the winter. I bought a trackhoe to stump the land and then hiring out a bulldozer to rake and pile. I have about 10 acres done I planted early October in rye and rye grass with half inch of rain and it came up. No rain for 38 days and then received 7 tenths. A lot of it was turning yellow and wasn't expecting much out of it but now it looks great! I have not got a soil test on it yet, but I put down about 2 tons of lime and chicken litter per acre before seeding. This is land that used to be soybean fields 40 years ago but was put into CRP and grew up in pines. I have another 10 acres I didn't get done until about the middle of November and just seeded rye grass on it to get the ground covered. Still need to burn the piles in it. It is starting to get a green tint to the field. My plans are to plant annuals for a year or so and then put in fescue and clover and hopefully have some summer type grasses mixed in. Some areas had a lot of Johnson grass and yellow foxtail in them this summer. I plan on doing milling next summer. I figured it would help smooth the fields to go over them 2-3 times. [/QUOTE]
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