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<blockquote data-quote="pdubdo" data-source="post: 1428309" data-attributes="member: 24024"><p>Got 55 acres of pastures that haven't been touched in over a decade. Been clearing pecans/oaks/locust saplings/plum thickets out on my days off, but plenty of open grasses: bluestems, johnsongrass, some Bermuda and several others. Also plenty of weeds-partridge pea, compass plant, ironweed, horsenettle (it's toxic), blackberry (low growing), ragweed, etc. Going for gradual improvement in the native grasses--don't really want to disk/till/clear-and-start over. I'm finally get cows on the place in September (going to under-stock initially) and my tentative plan is to rotate them weekly w/ portable electric fence, and then spray for weeds next spring. Alternately I could spray/spot spray each 7 acre section after I rotate them off, but it'll be ? wrong season. Does this plan have a decent chance of improving the pasture over the next couple of years? I'd love to see 50% fewer weeds next year and improve the quality of forage year-after-year without dumping a ton of herbicide on the place. Any tips/thoughts/constructive criticism? As an aside, I've got tons of wildlife of all kinds so I like having lots of forage variety in my pasture...just want to adjust the variety more toward cattle-friendly <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdubdo, post: 1428309, member: 24024"] Got 55 acres of pastures that haven't been touched in over a decade. Been clearing pecans/oaks/locust saplings/plum thickets out on my days off, but plenty of open grasses: bluestems, johnsongrass, some Bermuda and several others. Also plenty of weeds-partridge pea, compass plant, ironweed, horsenettle (it's toxic), blackberry (low growing), ragweed, etc. Going for gradual improvement in the native grasses--don't really want to disk/till/clear-and-start over. I'm finally get cows on the place in September (going to under-stock initially) and my tentative plan is to rotate them weekly w/ portable electric fence, and then spray for weeds next spring. Alternately I could spray/spot spray each 7 acre section after I rotate them off, but it'll be ? wrong season. Does this plan have a decent chance of improving the pasture over the next couple of years? I'd love to see 50% fewer weeds next year and improve the quality of forage year-after-year without dumping a ton of herbicide on the place. Any tips/thoughts/constructive criticism? As an aside, I've got tons of wildlife of all kinds so I like having lots of forage variety in my pasture...just want to adjust the variety more toward cattle-friendly :) [/QUOTE]
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