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Winter pasture, permanent pasture, or both?
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<blockquote data-quote="Texan" data-source="post: 109429" data-attributes="member: 416"><p>Depends on how much money you want to throw at it. If the money even matters to you. Winter pasture is pretty expensive to me, but it might be pocket change to you. Personally, I wouldn't even consider trying to establish something this Fall if I knew I was going to sprig it early in the Spring. You would have to go over it and prepare a seedbed <em>twice</em>. Plus, your cool season pasture would just be getting into peak production about the time you needed to plow it all under. That's a waste of money to me. </p><p></p><p>If it were mine, I would spend late Summer and early Fall being sure it was cleaned up and leveled like I wanted it. Unless it has so much slope that it is <em>essential</em> to have it covered, I would just hope that something free and volunteer would come up to cover it over the winter. Then it won't hurt as bad to get rid of that cover crop in the early Spring. If you don't have any money invested in a winter pasture, you will be more apt to work it when you need to, instead of possibly waiting too late. Your hybrid Bermudas are a long-term investment. They will work for you for years and years. Forget about expensive short-term projects like annual winter pasture if your goal is to establish one of the Bermudas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texan, post: 109429, member: 416"] Depends on how much money you want to throw at it. If the money even matters to you. Winter pasture is pretty expensive to me, but it might be pocket change to you. Personally, I wouldn't even consider trying to establish something this Fall if I knew I was going to sprig it early in the Spring. You would have to go over it and prepare a seedbed [i]twice[/i]. Plus, your cool season pasture would just be getting into peak production about the time you needed to plow it all under. That's a waste of money to me. If it were mine, I would spend late Summer and early Fall being sure it was cleaned up and leveled like I wanted it. Unless it has so much slope that it is [i]essential[/i] to have it covered, I would just hope that something free and volunteer would come up to cover it over the winter. Then it won't hurt as bad to get rid of that cover crop in the early Spring. If you don't have any money invested in a winter pasture, you will be more apt to work it when you need to, instead of possibly waiting too late. Your hybrid Bermudas are a long-term investment. They will work for you for years and years. Forget about expensive short-term projects like annual winter pasture if your goal is to establish one of the Bermudas. [/QUOTE]
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