ga. prime
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38 inch rows
Mainly because the planter and the tractor and the cultivator are set up for 38inch rows. Tifleaf millet will lap the middles less than a month after planting on 38 inch rows. I guess it would make more forage on narrower rows, but it makes all my cows need on the 38in spacing.novaman":2kb4o6wn said:What's the reason for having it on a wide spacing?
How many cows do you carry and for how long?ga. prime":3q4y0gtq said:Mainly because the planter and the tractor and the cultivator are set up for 38inch rows. Tifleaf millet will lap the middles less than a month after planting on 38 inch rows. I guess it would make more forage on narrower rows, but it makes all my cows need on the 38in spacing.novaman":3q4y0gtq said:What's the reason for having it on a wide spacing?
Thanks ga.ga. prime":2gv3k865 said:They're JD 71 planters, Jed. Here's a pic of one of the plates. They're sixty cell if I counted right. I always call them millet plates. I have planted okra with them but they don't work too well for that. By the time you plant 100ft, most of the cells are jammed up with seed. I slow down the speed of seed drop as much as the sprockets I have will allow. One 50lb bag of millet will plant 4 acres.
ga. prime":12cih1wh said:38 inch rows
edrsimms":1d5sw1tj said:ga. prime":1d5sw1tj said:38 inch rows
Planted with a grain drill April 15, 2009 (20 lbs/acre) --- Baled 5/7; 5/28; now just grazed by Cow/calf pairs
8 cow calf pairs per acre (limit grazed) Fertilizer applied pre plant 50-30-50 (pH = 6.0)
Steve Wilson":r3e6vkoj said:This is my first time growing it as a hay crop, we have always used it in a small 4 acre lot as rotational grazing for 200-350 pound calves. I'm picking up an old John Deere 24W wire tie baler next weekend, just for that task. Because the ice storm last year crashed a tree down on the old International baler and pretty much toasted the pick up reel to the point that it is scrap iron now.