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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1576690" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Yep, you done gone and screwed yourself now! What are you gonna do with all the time you're gonna free up by not having plant that cheap low cost winter grazing that you can break even with just 120 days of grazing? And what are you gonna do with all the money you would have spent on supplements during the winter to prop up the nutritional value of that Alecia? And whose gonna want to buy a bunch of fat calves that will surely be foundered from a diet too nutrient dense? </p><p></p><p>Yep, you are going away from home by not following the conventional wisdom and don't be surprised if your accountant calls telling you the bad news that you owe a pile of money to your rich uncle Sambo because you made too much money with your cattle when you could have easily just fed your profits and gotten a nice right-off. Yep, you going away from home.</p><p></p><p>Once you get it established and if you plan on grazing it some, you should try planting some Durano in the field - if no grazing use Dixie. I believe you - like me - are too far south for Durano to give much grazing height but what it will do is spread everywhere between your mother plants during the off season forming a mulch-like layer to keep many weeds out. It will give some grazing but more importantly it will give you a bunch of slow release nitrogen during the growing season. Around 150lbs of N I believe. If you don't use a lot of herbicides in your fields you will also find it will spread all over your farm in just a few years. All my pastures are now covered in it and the grazing pastures don't see any fertilizer which again seems to make uncle Sambo giddy come tax time. I know its going away from home but what can I say if you gonna leave home you might as well go all out since your neighbors are already laughing at you for growing twigs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1576690, member: 4362"] Yep, you done gone and screwed yourself now! What are you gonna do with all the time you're gonna free up by not having plant that cheap low cost winter grazing that you can break even with just 120 days of grazing? And what are you gonna do with all the money you would have spent on supplements during the winter to prop up the nutritional value of that Alecia? And whose gonna want to buy a bunch of fat calves that will surely be foundered from a diet too nutrient dense? Yep, you are going away from home by not following the conventional wisdom and don't be surprised if your accountant calls telling you the bad news that you owe a pile of money to your rich uncle Sambo because you made too much money with your cattle when you could have easily just fed your profits and gotten a nice right-off. Yep, you going away from home. Once you get it established and if you plan on grazing it some, you should try planting some Durano in the field - if no grazing use Dixie. I believe you - like me - are too far south for Durano to give much grazing height but what it will do is spread everywhere between your mother plants during the off season forming a mulch-like layer to keep many weeds out. It will give some grazing but more importantly it will give you a bunch of slow release nitrogen during the growing season. Around 150lbs of N I believe. If you don't use a lot of herbicides in your fields you will also find it will spread all over your farm in just a few years. All my pastures are now covered in it and the grazing pastures don't see any fertilizer which again seems to make uncle Sambo giddy come tax time. I know its going away from home but what can I say if you gonna leave home you might as well go all out since your neighbors are already laughing at you for growing twigs. [/QUOTE]
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