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<blockquote data-quote="rocfarm" data-source="post: 1781178" data-attributes="member: 42715"><p>I've heard different things on this one. I've heard that, once the grass is dormant, it doesn't matter if you take it short, especially if you are going to fertilize in the spring. I've also heard the opposite.</p><p></p><p>As far as drought management during warmer weather, I learned firsthand that, if you leave green in your Klein by not grazing it, it recovers and grows a lot of grass on as little as 3 to 4 inches of rain When there is virtually no existing moisture in the ground. My current working theory is that its ungrazed blades/resulting longer roots can draw a bit of deep soil water to help with the nutrient movement through the plant of the shallower soil moisture. This probably gives a bit of an added boost to the plant over and above the commonly mentioned "it takes grass to grow grass" mantra.</p><p></p><p>Another thing I learned is that, if you have to pressure or 'abuse' grass on your farm, the common Bermuda is probably the best one to do this to in my area.</p><p></p><p>Klein grass, May 13, 2022.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]24615[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]24616[/ATTACH]</p><p>The farm received 3 to 4 inches of rain between amount May 21 and May 25. The below pics were taken on June 29.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]24617[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]24618[/ATTACH]</p><p>That said, when I put my new cows out there in August, they wouldn't eat the Klein and went for the KR, as I mentioned earlier<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rocfarm, post: 1781178, member: 42715"] I've heard different things on this one. I've heard that, once the grass is dormant, it doesn't matter if you take it short, especially if you are going to fertilize in the spring. I've also heard the opposite. As far as drought management during warmer weather, I learned firsthand that, if you leave green in your Klein by not grazing it, it recovers and grows a lot of grass on as little as 3 to 4 inches of rain When there is virtually no existing moisture in the ground. My current working theory is that its ungrazed blades/resulting longer roots can draw a bit of deep soil water to help with the nutrient movement through the plant of the shallower soil moisture. This probably gives a bit of an added boost to the plant over and above the commonly mentioned “it takes grass to grow grass” mantra. Another thing I learned is that, if you have to pressure or ‘abuse’ grass on your farm, the common Bermuda is probably the best one to do this to in my area. Klein grass, May 13, 2022. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1672968361342.jpeg"]24615[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1672968423584.jpeg"]24616[/ATTACH] The farm received 3 to 4 inches of rain between amount May 21 and May 25. The below pics were taken on June 29. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1672968756276.jpeg"]24617[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1672968781528.jpeg"]24618[/ATTACH] That said, when I put my new cows out there in August, they wouldn’t eat the Klein and went for the KR, as I mentioned earlier😂. [/QUOTE]
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