Jogee, amazing how fast you can got to green to brown. I remember the clover and turnip pastures you posted earlier in the year. O for the good ole days.
Grannyso, I wish my pastures would have look this good going into '06. I got caught a bit off guard that year. At the time, weed control was mostly shredding them off. I cut off a lot of good grass that year to get the weeds and then didn't get the moisture to get that flush of green grass. Thankfully I had put up some of the best quality hay I have ever grown that spring. Between the hay, the grass clippings in the pasture, and some timely rains on my oats in the fall, we came thru ok. I've got some pasture that I would like to run a shredder over to clean it up but I am waiting on some rain before I do it this year.
Novatech, thanks for the complement on the pasture, I made good use of the moisture we got last year to get them back into pretty good shape. The pictures make them look better than they really are. What looks like grass is mostly stem but that hint of green has held on longer than I would have thought. Had to fix several waterleaks the past few weeks. Those spots look like putting greens, so all we need is some moisture. Hope you continue to get some rain, sooner or later it will make its way here.
Hr, wet and unable to bale was on us last year till August. A good portion of what we baled got wet, was baled off wet ground, or was old and coarse. Baled a lot of hay, just nothing that would win a hay show. Seems like the cows prefer stuff that was cut at the correct time and got wet over the old and coarse. It doesn't seem right that to much rain can be as bad as to little.
Beefy, hang tight, in 1996 majority of our haycrop was made between August and November.
