Post by rd200 on Dec 26, 2017 14:55:19 GMT -5
Try to make this short as possible.
I'm takin my 8 acres back. It's lower land, with basically a pond in the middle on really wet years but the rest dries up decently enough to plant usually.
Have 1.5-2 acres of pasture now that I frost seeded into existing corn stubble and it worked very well 2 years and running.
Problem: the guy we rented too didn't plant it this year. Too wet in spring and never "got around to it" after that π
Now it's a thick layer of weedy crap on the bottom and 10' stalks across the whole field. Like, nothing a regular lawn mower will ever get thru.
Option 1: pay neighbor to take a stalk chopper thru the entire thing. Then have him work it up and seed it down in spring. Negatives; it's so wet in spring if we have a wet year it will be June/July before he can get in to work it and plant it. If it's drier, he could get it done by mid May. Also, I won't have much extra pasture this year then by the time it's ready to cut the new seeding off and fence it in.
Option 2: keep 2 acres, frost seed it myself, hope for the best soil contact I can get thru the weeds and existing grass. Fence that in for my pasture this summer, pay neighbor to work the rest up and seed it down.
Option 3: take stalk chopper thru all of it, frost seed the whole sh*t, and take what I get this year.
I really like frsot seeding because my pasture is ready to graze by mid/early May depending on how warm it is and moisture, etc. If I have the guy seed it all down it will be end of july easy before any is ready to graze.
I want it all in pasture and maybe keep a small section on the end open so when they can't keep it all ate down that that section can then be made into hay instead of letting it get too mature.
Thoughts??
Ideally it would be great if I could find someone with a green chopper to run thru it this winter yet while still frozen and get all the stalks and weeds and thrash off of it so it can dry out and be worked properly and seeded down or I could frost seed it yet. But no one around here really green chops anymore.
I'm takin my 8 acres back. It's lower land, with basically a pond in the middle on really wet years but the rest dries up decently enough to plant usually.
Have 1.5-2 acres of pasture now that I frost seeded into existing corn stubble and it worked very well 2 years and running.
Problem: the guy we rented too didn't plant it this year. Too wet in spring and never "got around to it" after that π
Now it's a thick layer of weedy crap on the bottom and 10' stalks across the whole field. Like, nothing a regular lawn mower will ever get thru.
Option 1: pay neighbor to take a stalk chopper thru the entire thing. Then have him work it up and seed it down in spring. Negatives; it's so wet in spring if we have a wet year it will be June/July before he can get in to work it and plant it. If it's drier, he could get it done by mid May. Also, I won't have much extra pasture this year then by the time it's ready to cut the new seeding off and fence it in.
Option 2: keep 2 acres, frost seed it myself, hope for the best soil contact I can get thru the weeds and existing grass. Fence that in for my pasture this summer, pay neighbor to work the rest up and seed it down.
Option 3: take stalk chopper thru all of it, frost seed the whole sh*t, and take what I get this year.
I really like frsot seeding because my pasture is ready to graze by mid/early May depending on how warm it is and moisture, etc. If I have the guy seed it all down it will be end of july easy before any is ready to graze.
I want it all in pasture and maybe keep a small section on the end open so when they can't keep it all ate down that that section can then be made into hay instead of letting it get too mature.
Thoughts??
Ideally it would be great if I could find someone with a green chopper to run thru it this winter yet while still frozen and get all the stalks and weeds and thrash off of it so it can dry out and be worked properly and seeded down or I could frost seed it yet. But no one around here really green chops anymore.