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Where is this mesquite coming from?
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<blockquote data-quote="cowboy43" data-source="post: 1022478" data-attributes="member: 10124"><p>Fighting mesquite is one of the most expensive maintenance practices that you can not afford to do . I have seen so many mesquite pastures dozed off, deep plowed, raked, then planted to bermuda grass and fertilized , with a cost of close to 6 to 7 hundred dollars an acre. The landowner then stands back and admires his beautiful pasture with the cows grazing in it. He thinks his job is done, he does not fertilize or use herbicide to control weeds and newly sprouted mesquite which come up with a vengeance ,once the mesquite seeds have been scarified , he overstocks the pasture, the weeds and overgrazing kill out the grass and the mesquite get out of control , thus in 5 to 10 years the pasture is back like it was,( My life time experience of observing uninformed and inexperienced landowners ) Another mistake is to control the weeds by mowing, the mesquite seeds keeps sprouting and getting thicker each year, I know of one pasture that had an estimated 4000 mesquite to an acre.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowboy43, post: 1022478, member: 10124"] Fighting mesquite is one of the most expensive maintenance practices that you can not afford to do . I have seen so many mesquite pastures dozed off, deep plowed, raked, then planted to bermuda grass and fertilized , with a cost of close to 6 to 7 hundred dollars an acre. The landowner then stands back and admires his beautiful pasture with the cows grazing in it. He thinks his job is done, he does not fertilize or use herbicide to control weeds and newly sprouted mesquite which come up with a vengeance ,once the mesquite seeds have been scarified , he overstocks the pasture, the weeds and overgrazing kill out the grass and the mesquite get out of control , thus in 5 to 10 years the pasture is back like it was,( My life time experience of observing uninformed and inexperienced landowners ) Another mistake is to control the weeds by mowing, the mesquite seeds keeps sprouting and getting thicker each year, I know of one pasture that had an estimated 4000 mesquite to an acre. [/QUOTE]
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