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<blockquote data-quote="marksmu" data-source="post: 703513" data-attributes="member: 9219"><p>Just for your information....I just put out Rye on 130 acres here in Chambers County, near Anahuac....my total cost $3,975...that included 100#/ac of 18-46-0 and 40#/ac gulf - ended up with a weigh out ticket on the scales with 2 buggies at 18,330lbs total...</p><p></p><p>I seeded on September 26, and as of Monday, I had about 50% up in very small sprouts...got our first rain on it, about 1" on Saturday the 3rd...I expect when I see it this weekend to have a decent stand.</p><p></p><p>Rye will grow in alot of different soils - and it responds very well to fertilizer - so if you plan to keep it for hay, go ahead and fertilize - the fertilizer is cheap now.</p><p></p><p>I look at this way (and I know you dont have a fence) - a bale of hay is give or take $40 for 1000lbs....at 2 cows per acre on the rye and 130 acres, I should (theoretically) be able to have 260 head on this field off and on through the winter....I plan to move them in and out of my adjacent pasture as needed to rest it for regrowth. </p><p></p><p>I plan to graze it off and on through the winter, let it head out for shredding towards the end of the winter (Feb), in hopes of getting more volunteer for next year, and then bale the final growth (March)....after that, I can burn that dried up rye, and set it into something good...the rye makes such an even establishment, that it burns like gasoline.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marksmu, post: 703513, member: 9219"] Just for your information....I just put out Rye on 130 acres here in Chambers County, near Anahuac....my total cost $3,975...that included 100#/ac of 18-46-0 and 40#/ac gulf - ended up with a weigh out ticket on the scales with 2 buggies at 18,330lbs total... I seeded on September 26, and as of Monday, I had about 50% up in very small sprouts...got our first rain on it, about 1" on Saturday the 3rd...I expect when I see it this weekend to have a decent stand. Rye will grow in alot of different soils - and it responds very well to fertilizer - so if you plan to keep it for hay, go ahead and fertilize - the fertilizer is cheap now. I look at this way (and I know you dont have a fence) - a bale of hay is give or take $40 for 1000lbs....at 2 cows per acre on the rye and 130 acres, I should (theoretically) be able to have 260 head on this field off and on through the winter....I plan to move them in and out of my adjacent pasture as needed to rest it for regrowth. I plan to graze it off and on through the winter, let it head out for shredding towards the end of the winter (Feb), in hopes of getting more volunteer for next year, and then bale the final growth (March)....after that, I can burn that dried up rye, and set it into something good...the rye makes such an even establishment, that it burns like gasoline. [/QUOTE]
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