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Using oats as a nurse crop for new pasture- graze?
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<blockquote data-quote="novaman" data-source="post: 654458" data-attributes="member: 2744"><p>I'm thinking that the ground may be quite soft having just been worked. If you run cows on it now you would probably tear the ground up a fair amount and uproot or otherwise damage the pasture mix? Maybe I'm wrong, but I've always hesistated to graze newly established fields too early. I'm curious as to how the 80 pounds of oats was decided upon. That's nearly 3 bushels per acre. When we use oats as a nurse crop we shoot for closer to 1 bushel (around 30 pounds) per acre so as not to crowd out the crop being established. You may have issues with crowding with that much oats so you may just have to graze it. Personally I would hay it the first time around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novaman, post: 654458, member: 2744"] I'm thinking that the ground may be quite soft having just been worked. If you run cows on it now you would probably tear the ground up a fair amount and uproot or otherwise damage the pasture mix? Maybe I'm wrong, but I've always hesistated to graze newly established fields too early. I'm curious as to how the 80 pounds of oats was decided upon. That's nearly 3 bushels per acre. When we use oats as a nurse crop we shoot for closer to 1 bushel (around 30 pounds) per acre so as not to crowd out the crop being established. You may have issues with crowding with that much oats so you may just have to graze it. Personally I would hay it the first time around. [/QUOTE]
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