Pastures after a drought

[Herefordcross]

Once the drought settles what are suggestions on repairing/replacing pastures.

 

[dun]

Once the drought settles what are suggestions on repairing/replacing pastures.

Rest them, lime and fertilizze to soil test, no-till your preferred long term forage species (throw in a little clover or other legume), then keep your stocking rate down for several years. We still haven;t gotten back to the stocking rate of before the severe drought that ended 4 years ago and now we've had 2 droughty years in a row again. Stocking rate is still down but I'm looking for a few good cows to add now.

dun

 

[cfpinz]

...Stocking rate is still down but I'm looking for a few good cows to add now.

dun

dun - There might be some big name herfs for sale just north of me. Oh, wait, they've already been "dispersed"! ;-)

cfpinz

 

[KenB]

...Stocking rate is still down but I'm looking for a few good cows to add now.

dun

dun - There might be some big name herfs for sale just north of me. Oh, wait, they've already been "dispersed"! ;-)

cfpinz

:cboy: :lol: ;-)

 

[dun]

I've giiven this more thought and would suggest if you're inundated with weeds in those pastures to skip the clover. Come spring spray with grazon if they're broadleaf weeds and wait for a year to re-establish the clover/legumes. You might consider spraying with grazon again later in the year to hopefully keep down on the summer and fall sprouting weeds

dun

 

[Herefordcross]

Dun, we've been using grazon for some time now and it works well. Weeds haven't really been much of a problem it's just that everthing is turning to dirt for about a 45 mile radius around us but, there are places that are doing good, we have one Alfalfa field that we've taken four cuttings off of this year so far. And then there's a friend of mine about 35 miles from here that had 400 acres of corn in the ground that never produced ears and it's drying fast. He let three different guys in on it to chop it for silage and they are running out of time before it gets too dry for them to even chop and ferment properly. I know I've got a lot of reseeding to do but, I'm afraid that if I wait until the rain starts a lot of our place won't be able to be gotton across to no till due to the hills, etc. So I may in a week or so plant some stuff in half the pastures and then frost seed the rest on towards spring.