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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1846509" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>This past fall, Scott drilled mostly wheat and rye, some barley and oats, on his row crop fields after each harvest. Those 200+ calves the vet and her husband have on those 400 acres have not put a dent in it. Belly high on those calves. and man, they are growing like crazy. You can tell where the peanuts and beans were vs the corn and cotton fields. Darker green. I guess due to the beans and peanuts being legumes. He broadcast oats and barley on the dove field, because he was out of the wheat and rye, but really put it on thick. Had to broadcast because of the terrain.. kind of rolling...and because there were millet and peanut rolls left on it, and the corn and sunflowers we had just sorta-kinda bush hogged down, so harder to run a drill. </p><p></p><p>Last week they pushed all 200 head onto the 100 acre field that Scott will plant in corn and shut the gates. It will have to be plowed under 1st of April, because he will plant corn mid-April. Last to be planted will be cotton,. which you do end of May. We will move them to the peanut and bean fields next, and they will be on the cotton field last. They gonna have to pick the calves up then 1st of May. Not gonna do a dove field this year...just gonna use those 50 or so acres for heifers, and let it basically go wild like the Kudzu place. We will pick up some quail and rabbit habitat like that. Dunno if the oats and barley were hybrids or not so dunno how much will come up volunteer each year. I was surprised at how Joe and Lisa's calves took off on this small -grain grazing. I don't think they ever even took a roll of hay or any feed or cubes or anything out there, Didn't need it. Scott did spread amonia nitrate when he drilled those fields, so I am sure that had a factor at how much it all has made.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1846509, member: 40587"] This past fall, Scott drilled mostly wheat and rye, some barley and oats, on his row crop fields after each harvest. Those 200+ calves the vet and her husband have on those 400 acres have not put a dent in it. Belly high on those calves. and man, they are growing like crazy. You can tell where the peanuts and beans were vs the corn and cotton fields. Darker green. I guess due to the beans and peanuts being legumes. He broadcast oats and barley on the dove field, because he was out of the wheat and rye, but really put it on thick. Had to broadcast because of the terrain.. kind of rolling...and because there were millet and peanut rolls left on it, and the corn and sunflowers we had just sorta-kinda bush hogged down, so harder to run a drill. Last week they pushed all 200 head onto the 100 acre field that Scott will plant in corn and shut the gates. It will have to be plowed under 1st of April, because he will plant corn mid-April. Last to be planted will be cotton,. which you do end of May. We will move them to the peanut and bean fields next, and they will be on the cotton field last. They gonna have to pick the calves up then 1st of May. Not gonna do a dove field this year...just gonna use those 50 or so acres for heifers, and let it basically go wild like the Kudzu place. We will pick up some quail and rabbit habitat like that. Dunno if the oats and barley were hybrids or not so dunno how much will come up volunteer each year. I was surprised at how Joe and Lisa's calves took off on this small -grain grazing. I don't think they ever even took a roll of hay or any feed or cubes or anything out there, Didn't need it. Scott did spread amonia nitrate when he drilled those fields, so I am sure that had a factor at how much it all has made. [/QUOTE]
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