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<blockquote data-quote="DaveM" data-source="post: 1233227" data-attributes="member: 23353"><p>Is there a "best practice" for spreading manure on grazing pasture? I've read that manure from too many cows per acre can cause health issues, mainly parasite problems from what I've gathered. So should I be concerned with spreading manure on grazing pasture a few weeks before the cows start using the pasture. I'm guessing about 400 bushels over 8 acres. I only have a few cows and have been stockpiling the manure since Thanksgiving 2014. I'm in Northern Pennsylvania and we won't have good green pasture until the end of April in to May. I'd like to start putting the manure to it as soon as I can pull the spreader through it. Still too much snow right now.</p><p></p><p>I have other fields I can spread the manure on if what I described above is a bad idea, but I thought a good dose of natural fertilizer would jump start the field I want to start grazing the cows on. I just don't want to do something that might cause the cows more harm than good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaveM, post: 1233227, member: 23353"] Is there a "best practice" for spreading manure on grazing pasture? I've read that manure from too many cows per acre can cause health issues, mainly parasite problems from what I've gathered. So should I be concerned with spreading manure on grazing pasture a few weeks before the cows start using the pasture. I'm guessing about 400 bushels over 8 acres. I only have a few cows and have been stockpiling the manure since Thanksgiving 2014. I'm in Northern Pennsylvania and we won't have good green pasture until the end of April in to May. I'd like to start putting the manure to it as soon as I can pull the spreader through it. Still too much snow right now. I have other fields I can spread the manure on if what I described above is a bad idea, but I thought a good dose of natural fertilizer would jump start the field I want to start grazing the cows on. I just don't want to do something that might cause the cows more harm than good. [/QUOTE]
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