Here we have some red clay that the period of time between too wet and too dry is 2 hours.... We try to sow from the middle of August to the end of September. We only get one rain to get it up then maybe another around Thanksgiving. Last halloween we had the worst Ice storm of nearly 100...
I started to hook up the old Tye no-till drill this morning and found a few springs missing on the back press wheels, and then found some discs that had a lot of play. $26 each for discs but after some searching I found the bearings for $4 ea. So while waiting I only have to cut off the 6...
Just curious, I have cabs on most of my tractors, and on my swather. Swather is an old Gehl/Owatonna 16ft sickle machine with an A/C that works. My New Holland has a good cab and quite a few crature comforts including a fancy marine radio I got through points on my Bass Pro Credit Card...
I started out in 96 with 20 Barbado ewes and 1 ram. After 6 years I had 85 head and every lambing we had at least 3 in a playpen in the house raising on a bottle. I was working in the city and at a state gov't job, so I carried one or 2 in a little dog cage to work every day. My co-workers...
I read some reports from the Noble research institute here in OK. They are the experts on pasture here. They said that any old hay has nitrogen in it, even weeds and the minerals in the old hay in addition to the humus it provides. They said in hard times that ground up old hay could be used...
I baled a lot of weeds off a new field I had to open up last year. It was some weedy mature bermuda that had not been cut in 8 years. Cows would not eat it. When we got hit with that -15 cold snap in February, I put it out for bedding. They buried up in it for 4 days. The wind chill was...
OK, now Iunderstand. I sorta grew up on a farm, but never was around showing or any of the big livestock events. Good idea, as you never knowwhat they might pick up or some idiot feed them... Great job on your goats too!!
If you have selenium in the soil it gets into the plants and then the animal grazing.. That is why selenium is regulated in feed... It is a heavy metal. I worked with an old Oil well logger to try to find the selenium zone in water wells by using radioactive logging of the well. When found...
I guess you are going to bale it green and let it turn into silage in the bags?? Are you saying that grass has the sharp edges? The fermentatin will take the edges off it I suppose. I have the equipment to do baleage, but never had the help available to use it...
A lot of the infected people were infected by the vaccinated who were carrying the disease but not experiencing symptoms. The variant hit harder because of the vaccinated ones.... it will run its course as it did in the Spanish Flu. It will take longer because this one is man made or...