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<blockquote data-quote="1wlimo" data-source="post: 837605" data-attributes="member: 16646"><p>"Good points - - but the issue on clay soil with marginal drainage, is that in a wet year you will never ever have the right conditions for grazing So is this land only good for a one cutting hay system?</p><p></p><p>Seems like there are two really different grazing approaches:</p><p>1) Intensive management with sub soilers and drain tile and/or renovation...</p><p>2) Lax management with blue grass or reed canary or fescue sod..."</p><p></p><p>I grew up on tile drained clay, option 1) is the way to go if you can get the figures to stack up. It is not as easy to farm a high clay soil than a sandy one, but it can be much more productive. Just takes more skill to get it correct. and when it goes wrong you just have to go out and fix the problem.</p><p></p><p>One year it was too wet to subsoil so I had to chiselplow down to 15 inch to break up some compacted dead water logged soil, only 5 acres damaged by harvesting in a wet fall. Was expensive but it lead to being able to grew a crop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1wlimo, post: 837605, member: 16646"] "Good points - - but the issue on clay soil with marginal drainage, is that in a wet year you will never ever have the right conditions for grazing So is this land only good for a one cutting hay system? Seems like there are two really different grazing approaches: 1) Intensive management with sub soilers and drain tile and/or renovation... 2) Lax management with blue grass or reed canary or fescue sod..." I grew up on tile drained clay, option 1) is the way to go if you can get the figures to stack up. It is not as easy to farm a high clay soil than a sandy one, but it can be much more productive. Just takes more skill to get it correct. and when it goes wrong you just have to go out and fix the problem. One year it was too wet to subsoil so I had to chiselplow down to 15 inch to break up some compacted dead water logged soil, only 5 acres damaged by harvesting in a wet fall. Was expensive but it lead to being able to grew a crop. [/QUOTE]
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