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<blockquote data-quote="mobgrazer" data-source="post: 616868" data-attributes="member: 9043"><p>This pasture has not had much work in the last 10 years. It's had 18 passes with an aerator, 7 passes of lime, 4 pass of fertilizer, and 21 passes of over seeding that was mostly winter wheat and pasture grasses. It's a mix of weeds, red clover, white Dutch clover, a few patches of alfalfa, some fescue, native crabgrass, orchard grass, johnsongrass, millet, I think it's called reed canary grass but have never planted it, indiangrass, switchgrass, a bunch of weeds, and I'm sure there are a few more I over looked. I have a 10" layer of thick black gritty humus then red hard clay. It holds water well but dose drain before it puddles to bad. My fall soil test are good form the fall.</p><p></p><p>We have run out of winter stock pile 3 times in the last 10 years and this is where they ended up on rotational bails. It was going to get fixed last spring but had some family maters take control of our lives for a few weeks. This got pushed to the bottom of the list. There are 4 to 5" ruts everywhere and is not fun to drive through over 5 mph. Most of the time the regrowth rate is 40 to 55 days so I just tell myself it's not the way it looks, it's how happy the cows are eating it.</p><p></p><p>I would love to get in there and do a deep plow and then chisel and disk it smooth but the loss would be too high to what the gains would be worth. This is not going to be a production field so all I need is smooth, keep cows happy, and has a fast regorwth rate. It will end up as a mix of the stuff I listed above with in a few years. I have not found anything that will choke out everything with out using chemicals or too much work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mobgrazer, post: 616868, member: 9043"] This pasture has not had much work in the last 10 years. It’s had 18 passes with an aerator, 7 passes of lime, 4 pass of fertilizer, and 21 passes of over seeding that was mostly winter wheat and pasture grasses. It’s a mix of weeds, red clover, white Dutch clover, a few patches of alfalfa, some fescue, native crabgrass, orchard grass, johnsongrass, millet, I think it’s called reed canary grass but have never planted it, indiangrass, switchgrass, a bunch of weeds, and I’m sure there are a few more I over looked. I have a 10” layer of thick black gritty humus then red hard clay. It holds water well but dose drain before it puddles to bad. My fall soil test are good form the fall. We have run out of winter stock pile 3 times in the last 10 years and this is where they ended up on rotational bails. It was going to get fixed last spring but had some family maters take control of our lives for a few weeks. This got pushed to the bottom of the list. There are 4 to 5” ruts everywhere and is not fun to drive through over 5 mph. Most of the time the regrowth rate is 40 to 55 days so I just tell myself it’s not the way it looks, it’s how happy the cows are eating it. I would love to get in there and do a deep plow and then chisel and disk it smooth but the loss would be too high to what the gains would be worth. This is not going to be a production field so all I need is smooth, keep cows happy, and has a fast regorwth rate. It will end up as a mix of the stuff I listed above with in a few years. I have not found anything that will choke out everything with out using chemicals or too much work. [/QUOTE]
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