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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 41779" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Smaller paddocks within each pasture will leave more grass to eat and less wasted by trampling. Soil test, first thing before seed or anything else. Then bring it up to test even if you have to lime and not apply seed or fertilizer. It's surprising how well natvie stuff will grow if you get the ph right. Without the right ph you might just as well go pour the seed and fertilizer on the road. If it's only a little off you can get by, but if it's much off the plants can't utilize the nutrients that you have available or are trying to make available by fertilizing.</p><p>A little sotry about one of our x-neighbors. Every year he fertilized the snot out of his hay filds, someting i nthe neighborhood of 300 lbs a year per acre. He alwasy whined about his grass just not growing. I asked about lime and he said it was too expensive so he didn't do it. He sold out and the gent that bought the place promptly did a soil test. The ph was so far off I don't understand how weeds managed to grow. He applied lime and you could almost loose the cows in the grass it rew so well. Now in 3 years he still hasn't had to fertilize and the grass is still growing great.</p><p>What I'm getting at is, ph is the key, everything else stems from that. In actualaility your husband may have the right idea. If you let the grass get grazed below the optimum height, some as low as 2 inches some as high as 4 inches, you're stealing from your future growth. If grass has to expend it's energys growing from the base it just makes it weaker. Without adequate leave area remaining after grazing the plant can't perform photosynthesis well enough to grow to it's potential.</p><p>If there is a grzgin school around you, attend it. The local extension or USDA NRCS should know of when and where one will be held..</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 41779, member: 34"] Smaller paddocks within each pasture will leave more grass to eat and less wasted by trampling. Soil test, first thing before seed or anything else. Then bring it up to test even if you have to lime and not apply seed or fertilizer. It's surprising how well natvie stuff will grow if you get the ph right. Without the right ph you might just as well go pour the seed and fertilizer on the road. If it's only a little off you can get by, but if it's much off the plants can't utilize the nutrients that you have available or are trying to make available by fertilizing. A little sotry about one of our x-neighbors. Every year he fertilized the snot out of his hay filds, someting i nthe neighborhood of 300 lbs a year per acre. He alwasy whined about his grass just not growing. I asked about lime and he said it was too expensive so he didn't do it. He sold out and the gent that bought the place promptly did a soil test. The ph was so far off I don't understand how weeds managed to grow. He applied lime and you could almost loose the cows in the grass it rew so well. Now in 3 years he still hasn't had to fertilize and the grass is still growing great. What I'm getting at is, ph is the key, everything else stems from that. In actualaility your husband may have the right idea. If you let the grass get grazed below the optimum height, some as low as 2 inches some as high as 4 inches, you're stealing from your future growth. If grass has to expend it's energys growing from the base it just makes it weaker. Without adequate leave area remaining after grazing the plant can't perform photosynthesis well enough to grow to it's potential. If there is a grzgin school around you, attend it. The local extension or USDA NRCS should know of when and where one will be held.. dun [/QUOTE]
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