It has turned dry here. Need some rain but still been a good summer! :banana:dun":1mw0078a said:Has anyone planted rice and grazed it? With over 12 inches of rain (in august the dry month) I'm considering it.
i still do to... second field still uncut ,would have be my first cutting.. the first field i cut in may.. has caught back up to the second field..... i also have frogs for sale, if interested....TN Cattle Man":27chv43k said:We have been getting slammed with rain here in Middle Tennessee as well!! I still have quite a bit of hay to cut (2nd cutting) and it doesn't look like it will get done anytime soon!!
The spring probably won;t show much for anythere couple of days to a week. Takes a while to soak in far enough to reach the aquifer, plus most of it is running off. None of our sprigns that dried up in the last drought have started running again yet.J&D Cattle":1vmm2ly1 said:It has been nuts here as well. Pulaski and Phelps have been hard hit. I wonder how Bennett Springs has fared?
I saw lots of rice straw bales sold all over the place in fall and winter 2011--came in on 18 wheelers from La and from down near Winnie Tx. I suspect it was just belly filler.lavacarancher":2xu3fn9y said:Don't know much about it, Dun. Don't grow it or feed it. Googled rice straw a couple of years ago when we were really hurting for hay and read that rice is high acid content which will make the cattle sick - if they eat enough of it. Also very low protein. Hope this help a little.
I've been thinking about planting that millet that likes wet feetmelking":2w0vw2re said:Since it is so wet where I am, I wonder if I should look into this. Hookline, what say you?