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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 872871" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>If the stuff looks dead you can bet that it's either shed it's seed or still has the seed and brush hogging it will just add to the seed bank. When we took over this farm it was badly abused and had fescue, clover and mostly weeds. I sprayed the weeds in the spring summer and fall with 2,4-d the first year and that helped. The second year I used Grazon and only had to spray in the late spring and late fall. The next year the clover (volunteer) started coming back so I broadcast more clover. Now th pastures have a very few weeds, and tons of clover and fescue. The spraying along with MIG is what I feel broguht these pastures back. The hay fields we cut and a couple of weeks later hit with Grazon. In the early spring (more like really late winter) I'll fertilize to the soil test based on what is claimed the fescue hay would have removed by haying. Every other year we do a soil test and fertilize/lime to that. We graze the hay fields once in the fall and let sit till the following year. In semi-normal years we don't feed hay till late march or early april.</p><p>One great truth that I picked up from the local NRCS is that you can;t undo years of neglect in just a year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 872871, member: 34"] If the stuff looks dead you can bet that it's either shed it's seed or still has the seed and brush hogging it will just add to the seed bank. When we took over this farm it was badly abused and had fescue, clover and mostly weeds. I sprayed the weeds in the spring summer and fall with 2,4-d the first year and that helped. The second year I used Grazon and only had to spray in the late spring and late fall. The next year the clover (volunteer) started coming back so I broadcast more clover. Now th pastures have a very few weeds, and tons of clover and fescue. The spraying along with MIG is what I feel broguht these pastures back. The hay fields we cut and a couple of weeks later hit with Grazon. In the early spring (more like really late winter) I'll fertilize to the soil test based on what is claimed the fescue hay would have removed by haying. Every other year we do a soil test and fertilize/lime to that. We graze the hay fields once in the fall and let sit till the following year. In semi-normal years we don't feed hay till late march or early april. One great truth that I picked up from the local NRCS is that you can;t undo years of neglect in just a year. [/QUOTE]
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