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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1648566" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>I sold 6 replacement heifers to an upcoming new beef farm, neighbor. Young couple with a little boy. They just bought a small farm (just signed papers this week). So, in the meantime, they hired a fencer to fence in about 5 acres for this winter. Made plans for us to drop them off this past Saturday. My first thought was - wow - look at the super green field. Well, as I got closer, discovered it's Alfalfa that has been cut twice for hay and had about 6-8" of new growth. Scared me to death. Turns out they had about 2 acres of the Alfalfa field, and about 3 acres of grass pasture. I went home & got Polywire & fenced them out of the Alfalfa.</p><p>We had 21F, 23F & 26F at night 2 weeks ago. And the morning we delivered them, we had 23F that night (it was 8:30am). So, it has been exposed to freeze - but it is not burnt at all. It is lush green growing Alfalfa. There is some grass. If I had to put a number, I would guess 70% A & 30% grass.</p><p>And, no - this is definitely NOT grazing Alfalfa. It was planted and hayed by a dairyman.</p><p>What would you do with it? I suggested 2-4D and no-till some more grass into it. Would you let them graze small strips ?</p><p>I will admit, I am scared to death of Alf. I have had very bad experience with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1648566, member: 968"] I sold 6 replacement heifers to an upcoming new beef farm, neighbor. Young couple with a little boy. They just bought a small farm (just signed papers this week). So, in the meantime, they hired a fencer to fence in about 5 acres for this winter. Made plans for us to drop them off this past Saturday. My first thought was - wow - look at the super green field. Well, as I got closer, discovered it's Alfalfa that has been cut twice for hay and had about 6-8" of new growth. Scared me to death. Turns out they had about 2 acres of the Alfalfa field, and about 3 acres of grass pasture. I went home & got Polywire & fenced them out of the Alfalfa. We had 21F, 23F & 26F at night 2 weeks ago. And the morning we delivered them, we had 23F that night (it was 8:30am). So, it has been exposed to freeze - but it is not burnt at all. It is lush green growing Alfalfa. There is some grass. If I had to put a number, I would guess 70% A & 30% grass. And, no - this is definitely NOT grazing Alfalfa. It was planted and hayed by a dairyman. What would you do with it? I suggested 2-4D and no-till some more grass into it. Would you let them graze small strips ? I will admit, I am scared to death of Alf. I have had very bad experience with it. [/QUOTE]
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