Native Pasture

[JWBrahman]

Low maintenance, low cost, whatever grows after I spot sprays and mows pasture. Spent about $300 on herbicide, about twenty hours clipping, and about $50 on diesel for my little tractor. $0 on grass seed. $0 on fertilizer. 6 acres per animal stocking rate.

 

[JWBrahman]

 

[3LEGGED1]

Nice pasture, fine cattle

 

[texast]

yes very nice animals!! Is that clover I see she's eating?

 

[JWBrahman]

Thx for the kind words, yes she is eating clover. They hardly even touch anything else and will walk my entire place looking for the clover patches.

 

[Caustic Burno]

That native pasture is Bahai and White Dutch clover that is improved pasture my friend.

 

[cmf1]

JW has the luxury of being on rich river dirt that's been farmed, cultivated, or improved for probably 200 years or more. Gorgeous!

I'm about 20 miles the other side of the river and a little south that was mostly timber country.
Carpet grass where I haven't tried to improve. Common bermuda and crabgrass if I scratch the ground any.

Makes me curious as to what native grasses were here.

 

[JWBrahman]

That native pasture is Bahai and White Dutch clover that is improved pasture my friend.

Thanks CB you are correct, native pasture in the swamp looks more like the thicket outside Greybeard's place. Here is another clover that the cattle really enjoy.

 

[JWBrahman]

We also have St. Augustine mixed in different places here and there in between the clover, coastal bermuda, and bahia.

 

[JWBrahman]

JW has the luxury of being on rich river dirt that's been farmed, cultivated, or improved for probably 200 years or more. Gorgeous!

I'm about 20 miles the other side of the river and a little south that was mostly timber country.
Carpet grass where I haven't tried to improve. Common bermuda and crabgrass if I scratch the ground any.

Makes me curious as to what native grasses were here.

Hahaha, the soil in your area is a tough row to hoe CMF1. You are doin a heck of a job with the cards you have been dealt. My place was pretty played out from about 150 years of indigo and 60 years of corn. Let it go fallow for a few years, bushhogged it, limed it, Grazon, and the drought ending has helped it out a lot. Now I need about 10 more cows and the money to buy them. :lol2:

 

[cmf1]

That looks to me like Argentine as green as it is w/o fert on it. Amazing how long it'll hang without much care if that's what it is. I know people cuss it often, but arg. bahia is some good stuff.

 

[cmf1]

I'm palpating Friday and if the Brahman aren't bred .... :frowns: :devil2: :???:
I may have to bring them to a live bull or another home. They've both calved live cover but AI, well, I'll know more Friday.

 

[JWBrahman]

I'm palpating Friday and if the Brahman aren't bred .... :frowns: :devil2: :???:
I may have to bring them to a live bull or another home. They've both calved live cover but AI, well, I'll know more Friday.

We have plenty room and all kinof good forage. Come by anytime

 

[Bigfoot]

Crap. All I'd have is bare ground if I did that.

 

[Kingfisher]

What's it cost to get the Gators out of those pastures...;). Really nice that you get rain....makes me want to move someplace that ain't sooo hard to grow grass.

 

[JWBrahman]

What's it cost to get the Gators out of those pastures...;). Really nice that you get rain....makes me want to move someplace that ain't sooo hard to grow grass.

People down the road from me trap and eat gators, haven't seen one in years. Hay is dirt cheap around here, most people got rid of the cows. Miles and miles of hay fields...