Posted by bison on May 06, 2015 at 15:45:32 from (69.168.144.136):
In Reply to: not fertilised posted by Pair-a-dice farm on May 06, 2015 at 13:38:38:
Pair-a-dice farm said: (quoted from post at 13:38:38 05/06/15)
bison said: (quoted from post at 22:25:35 05/04/15)
Brandon j said: (quoted from post at 18:41:29 05/04/15) Just heard about a farmer that took over the family farm and didn't know to put anything on the fields for 16years the crops keeped getting worse and worse till almost nothing last year he finally had the local again serves out he was told it will take 4years to get the land back up to par
I haven't put a lb of fertilizer on my hay fields or pastures for 18 years.
The pastures are in better shape now then the were 18 years ago. The hay fields produce the same amount of hay year after year depending on rain fall.
Just saying
I'm not sure how cattle and bison differ in what they leave behind. I built up some of my ground by simply grazing and feeding hay on fields that had previously been cropped for years. Cattle add organics back to the soil that can't be artificially duplicated. My land only has a few inches of top soil. However the fields where I cut hay have to be fertilized or they don't produce enough to pay for the fuel to cut it. Due to winter time flooding I, usually, can't feed on my hay fields. If you take something off of a field and carry it somewhere else, eventually you or the next person will have to replace it in order for the field to produce.
Some land should've been left in the natural state and never been broken.
I have some real sandy spots in some pastures that have never produced anything with or without fertilizer.
I've just let it revert back to nature,..wildlife needs a place to hide too.
I have around 400 acres of virgin bush on my place as well, some of it is really productive soil.
Breaking it today would cost more than i will ever get back in my life time. It bloody well can stay bush for all i care, good place for the deer the moose the bears the birds and the bees :D
This post was edited by bison at 15:46:36 05/06/15.
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