kenny thomas said:
I probably plant too early (but I'm not making a crop, just grazing). I like it spread by end of September. Used to wait till it was calling for rain. I have found it can lay there nd wait for rain. I just go to the elevator and get bin run wheat. Plant about 100-120 pounds to the acre. I have a 500 pound cone spreader. The kids have talked me into renting a buggy this year. Partially to avoid shoveling the stuff, and partially because I'm doing more acres. I'll just have the buggy filled. Not sure it really saves much. My experience is that last 3 weeks of hay feeding when you wish you could stop, but spring just ain't there.......I can open up my wheat pasture, and the cows just quit coming to hay. I have also put up a creep gate, so fall calves could have access all the time. I wouldn't swear weaning weights were improved by that though. I have also bout quit fall calving. Still have a few every year, but it's a cow that got out of cycle. Cow leaves in the spring when the calf is weaned, so I don't fool with that, for no more fall calves than I have.