Hereford76":24mdtgg7 said:
if you hadn't posted a picture of that i'd never believe it. can you explain your operation more.
those pictures are dated 11/1/2009 and you said that is part oats/part winter wheat (but separate right). so when was is sown? when will those cattle come off there and then what - you combine the wheat and oats and if so what month. that just looks crazy to me. we live in the golden triangle of montana (wheat country) and i've never seen winter wheat like that before it froze. what kind of yields do you typically have. did you say what varieties they are - farmers around here have their own varities for drought tolerance and saw fly resistance. have you ever had winter wheat boot before it froze or do you make sure and graze it hard.
i don't know but my cows would think they had died and gone to heaven. pretty neat
My sweetie planted about Sept 10th. There's about 60 acres of useable bottom land---a creek runs through the middle of the 80 acre parcel.
Three bulls that are 1 1/2 yrs old are on it, and the weaned bull calves---weaned Oct 10th. The weaned heifers we put in regular
pasture---don't want them to put on huge amounts of fat . He planted about 15 acres with oats and the rest with wheat. We will
graze it all winter, take the animals off about March 1st, then make hay in early May. The oats have never all frozen out. They will
get bit back in a bad winter, but come back when it warms. We've never had the wheat (nor rye) boot out, but that one variety of oats
did. He also drilled some hilltop pasture with the oats. He uses a no-till pasture drill. It was almost 80 degrees here today and forecast
a little warmer tomorrow. It is about 10 degrees above average. I still have tomatoes on the vine---and a couple of roses blooming.
He planted "Bob" oats and "Jager" wheat.
We usually have have our beef steers on that field at this time of year---to be ready for the butcher in late Jan-early Feb. But this coming
season we are not producing any beef.