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<blockquote data-quote="VaCowman" data-source="post: 1639667" data-attributes="member: 33135"><p>Last year (in my neck of the woods in VA) we had a DRY FALL. Urea was a waste of $$. MOST years, we catch rain on Labor Day weekend, sometimes an occasional front in August. If we can time Urea applications the day of the rain event, we usually can bank on an additional 2-2500#CM/acre with ~50UAN. Pretty cheap feed! We hold off until Thanksgiving if we can, even if that means feeding hay. We AI the week of Thanksgiving and let the cows get bred while grazing stockpile. We've culled hard for fertility over the years and now can keep 30 cows in a 30-45d calving/breeding season on this stuff. We graze summer annuals from July-Sept 1 to give pastures a rest, which allows us to graze around 280-300d/year on average. Stocking rate is 1 cow/3 acres. I truly think this could be trimmed to less than 3 if our summer pastures (leased land) could be subdivided, but the landowner doesn't want any division fences. the way the land lays and water runs, it's all but impossible to strip graze because the creek banks are so steep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VaCowman, post: 1639667, member: 33135"] Last year (in my neck of the woods in VA) we had a DRY FALL. Urea was a waste of $$. MOST years, we catch rain on Labor Day weekend, sometimes an occasional front in August. If we can time Urea applications the day of the rain event, we usually can bank on an additional 2-2500#CM/acre with ~50UAN. Pretty cheap feed! We hold off until Thanksgiving if we can, even if that means feeding hay. We AI the week of Thanksgiving and let the cows get bred while grazing stockpile. We've culled hard for fertility over the years and now can keep 30 cows in a 30-45d calving/breeding season on this stuff. We graze summer annuals from July-Sept 1 to give pastures a rest, which allows us to graze around 280-300d/year on average. Stocking rate is 1 cow/3 acres. I truly think this could be trimmed to less than 3 if our summer pastures (leased land) could be subdivided, but the landowner doesn't want any division fences. the way the land lays and water runs, it's all but impossible to strip graze because the creek banks are so steep. [/QUOTE]
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