DNelson
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I thought it was on there, I'll add it. anyway location is north central Minnesota.Your profile does not say where you are located, would be great if you could add that.
I thought it was on there, I'll add it. anyway location is north central Minnesota.Your profile does not say where you are located, would be great if you could add that.
That's a beautiful sight. Wow.This is a patch of ryegrass that was planted late - it was primarily planted as a cover crop in my pumpkin field. I decided to let my wife's sheep graze it. I've got about 45 acres of it that I planted about 5 weeks before this. It's about 8" higher (34" average). As soon as the weather breaks, it's getting mowed. I just wish my perennial grass hayfields would thicken up. They look very sparse this year.
when our pasture grass gets tall the cattle stop eating it, its stems then. picky cows I guess.Put some replacement heifers down on a river bottom field we haven't grazed in a while since we replanted half of it this past September. They look happy if you can find them!!!
my cattle grazed the pasture and the hay field real low last fall to December when it snowed. starting to show green now, but we need rain. two weeks ago, we still had a couple inches of snow on the ground, but its gone now except for the piles.Strange year for sure. We are getting a little grass growth but well behind normal. Usually by now pastures have lost that emerald green look and begin to look a little woolly from heading out and various weeds.
Cattle have been grazing so hard that the fields still have that early spring look.
Growth on the calves has been really good and the cows are holding or improving condition.
Could this be keeping the grass in a vegetative stage and actually improving performance?
I just hope it does not turn to a hot dry summer because roots are not going deep under these conditions,
Lots of wild hives here didnt make it through the winter. Not a bad winter so not sure if its mites or what else it could be.I'm just gonna throw this out there. Not really related to grass, but it's a little weird for us. We have a big crab apple tree that has hoards of bees in it when it blooms every year... except this year. The tree is in full bloom and the noise from bees is usually loud standing under it. There are no bees this year at all. I went out and stood under the tree for several minutes and saw none.
I noticed the same thing. Hay fields covered with buttercup that I have never noticed before.Grass is terribly slow growing here. More buttercup than i have ever seen before. Even in well fertilized hay fields.
I read that the drought had an effect on bee population in areas. not sure if it was from the lack of blooming flowers or water or both. even the monarch butterflies were fewer last year.I'm just gonna throw this out there. Not really related to grass, but it's a little weird for us. We have a big crab apple tree that has hoards of bees in it when it blooms every year... except this year. The tree is in full bloom and the noise from bees is usually loud standing under it. There are no bees this year at all. I went out and stood under the tree for several minutes and saw none.
I'm betting that my kids will see the end of Monarch butterflies. Who knows, maybe I will outlive them. All the apple tress are in full bloom and no bees. Gonna have very few apples this year.I read that the drought had an effect on bee population in areas. not sure if it was from the lack of blooming flowers or water or both. even the monarch butterflies were fewer last year.