Posted by Billy NY on April 30, 2014 at 09:39:49 from (66.67.105.23):
In Reply to: Stocking Rates posted by showcrop on April 30, 2014 at 03:37:29:
Never works, I remember renovating pastures at the other place, with minimal equipment, tools and resources, busting ones proverbial @ss to get it done aside from the regular days work, then setting up a hose to water it, I even mulched it with the manure spreader and some 2nd cut hay that had lots of clover heads in it, moisture in the arena ruined that hay, which I also painstakingly put up, cut, raked, baled, stacked on wagons, then loaded the tandem sileage body truck and delivered it 30 miles away, but let the help unload, I handled it enough already LOL. It had no weed seed in it, just clover heads, this stand would have been a thick lush crop for grazing if they gave it some time, never happens though. I even said, why don't you just shut the place down, get these things caught up, then gradually bring them back, manage what you have, sorry we are not that intelligent, can't think that way LOL !
With all said and done, and the grasses coming up with a cover crop of oats, I even spread lime on it heavier near the pine trees, it was coming up well, finally rained, but like you said, it needs time to grow and establish, my father told them to turn horses out into it and all that hard work was for nothing, last time I ever do that, by June, it will be all plantains bare spots, and nothing of feed value. At times there are too many horses and we have some nice grazing, but it just gets hammered, the one large field was a nice stand of orchard, timothy and clover, and rebounds nicely, but its a mess when overgrazed, some people just don't get this, very simple premise too, but they can't get it through their thick heads that you have to rotate and care for what grows, these darned animals have voracious appetites.
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