Best way to mow 20 acres

I've have read some where that , if you plant oats with your corn that, the crows will not eat as much?? May work for turkeys? Plant at last disking ( broadcast and than disk) at a low rate to the arce, but you have to be able to till they away after corn is up. From what I read it is to make it harder for they to focus on the corn. I have to but electric around any thing I plant for deer, turkeys, rabbits coons, and anything else that thinks I'm not to get any harvest for me, LOL.

Feed them may work too.

I had a crow dust about 10 years ago that worked too well. Black bird dust.

Good Luck!!

Punchie

moldovan@brads.net If you have any ideas.

Jay

I've have read some where that , if you plant oats with your corn that, the crows will not eat as much?? May work for turkeys? Plant at last disking ( broadcast and than disk) at a low rate to the arce, but you have to be able to till they away after corn is up. From what I read it is to make it harder for they to focus on the corn. I have to but electric around any thing I plant for deer, turkeys, rabbits coons, and anything else that thinks I'm not to get any harvest for me, LOL.

Feed them may work too.

I had a crow dust about 10 years ago that worked too well. Black bird dust.

Good Luck!!

Punchie

moldovan@brads.net If you have any ideas.

IF the field is clean no junk etc, in it . You can try a sickle mower, maybe a hay-binder. But I would say at 30 HP and 14 hours you did OK. I cut about 100- 150 acres/year with a brushhog. Average in grass is about 2 acre/hour. Using Allis Chalmers WD, 5 foot woods brushhog. If brush, as slow as 1/2 arce / hour. I have to do a good job, no tops up in the air, or too much bent over. Good clean job 3"-4" high.

Cost for me in Equipment to start: 1,200 for a WD & 400- 500 for a brushhog. Shearbins, gas, blades, oil, and tires average per acre is about 10.00 my cost. So tink about it sickle and binder you can spend a lot of time in fixing them (down time is low with a brushhog).

Good Luck!!

Punchie

Last year I rented a small Kubota and a 4' rotary. Took 12 hourse to cut. This year I plan to rent something bigger and get that down to 6 hours.

Farm was in pretty good hayland when my father retired in the early '70s. We had a farmer who raised beef harvest the hay for a number of years until health issues and declining quality of the seeding caused an end to that partnership. (Believe me, my family and I miss the beef we got in payment!) I have not the money to properly refurbish the seedings, and my "economy" attempts have not been very successful. I have managed to acquire (borrow) some broken down equipment this year, and my son, wife and I harvested about 15 acres of first cutting, this summer. Will come in handy for the sheep and llamas that my wife got this spring. Much of the rest is not best quality for feed at this point. Needs to be put in rotation of several years of row crops, plenty of fertilizer, al lots of TLC, before it becomes productive again. On one field last year, I disked, (several times,) plowed (once,) and disked again a couple times, then planted alfalfa by broadcasting. Got a wonderful crop of what the locals call Russian Clover (shepherd's purse.)
Mowing is my feeble attempt to try to keep weeds somewhat under control, and not loose what little seeding I have to weeds and brush. My budget for this is extremely tight. Farmers interested in farming my place to my specifications are not knocking at the door! They all want a fast crop, at minimum investment, leave the soil poorer than they found it, and vamoose! - Ray