MasseyFerg
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Caustic Burno":2dh2fz23 said:rjbovine":2dh2fz23 said:Older gentlemen I drink coffee with has raised cattle 40 yr. His idea to mow often enough so grass doesn't go to seed. He says if plant goes to seed it will quit growing. First time I have heard this . What do you all think. Thanks rj
I never mow a pasture that is what I have cow's for, I ain't cutting cow feed.
That is why the place is cross fenced to rotational graze.
Pasture's are fertilized, aerated, sprayed for weed's.
I will be dam if I am going to burn diesel to destroy feed.
My pastures are better than most in the area.
no way to get rid of the spring flush of winter grasses without mowing. most have destocked due to drought and even if they haven't, most don't have enough cows anyway to remove all of the wintergrass as fast as it grows. if you let it just sit, mature, turn brown and go to seed it aint worth a crap as cow feed. I don't care if you have it fenced off into 1 acre paddocks, you are only going to be able to graze off the winter grass on some of it. The rest will grow 3' tall and shade out your summer grass, which I assume is bermuda
i already mowed some pastures twice to keep the wintergrasses from going to seed and let the summer grasses get some light. as was said above with a 15' batwing, it dont take long or much fuel. i use less than 2 gals acre of diesel/acre. so my cost per acre is about $6.00. my other choice is to bale the crap wintergrass which is so mature that it ain't worth baling, but if u do this you are delaying ur first crop of summer hay by a month. if you bale the wintergrass earlier it will just come back and u will have to do it again. now if u can find some stupid city slicker that wants to buy your seeded out garbage wintergrass then you can bale it and sell it and at least recover your costs