AggieStudent20
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I'm looking for opinions on fertilizing pasture for maximum utilization (located in Central MO). Our renter currently adds P&K with a little N in spring and then puts more N, P, &K in late summer/early fall for an extension in fall grazing. He also frost seeds cover. I like this plan but I'm always looking for tips and improvement.
I don't like how most of the farmers in my area fertilize their pasture. They throw everything down in the spring, causing fescue to crowd everything else out. Then they bushog there fields all summer and run out of grass in September and complain about feeding hay until May (They claim they don't fertilize twice because there worried about compaction on there soil but there not worried about feeding hay 9 months out of the year). I don't want to be like this. My personal thought is to frost seed legumes, let the spring flush do its thing with a little boost and then give it another boost late summer. Any advice would help.
I don't like how most of the farmers in my area fertilize their pasture. They throw everything down in the spring, causing fescue to crowd everything else out. Then they bushog there fields all summer and run out of grass in September and complain about feeding hay until May (They claim they don't fertilize twice because there worried about compaction on there soil but there not worried about feeding hay 9 months out of the year). I don't want to be like this. My personal thought is to frost seed legumes, let the spring flush do its thing with a little boost and then give it another boost late summer. Any advice would help.