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We are retired now, but we tried planting falcata (yellow alfalfa) along with grass in some CRP ground. We mixed the seed in the drill and planted a few hundred acres. We got some alfalfa - little - and it had blue flowers. WE called the seed company and they sent us replacement seed which we...

George, We planted several hundred pounds of yellow alfalfa seed when reseeding some CRP. The only alfalfa that came up was blue. We told the seed company and they replaced the entire shipment - and the new seed didn't do much better. Quite a bit of the seed leaked in the delivery truck and...

rancherfred, WE had the same problem a few years back. Tumble weeds backed up along fences several feet deep. We bought a fence cleaner from: Prestige Manufacturing Inc. 105 South Webster Kimball, NE 69145 Phone308-235-3700 It cost $4,250 back in 2005, but I have no current information...

In 1994, we bought a ranch in Eastern Colorado which they had broken up. They plowed up 16000 acres on a 19000 acre ranch. Half of it was sandy, the rest heavy soil. Large parts were put into CRP. The government paid a lot more in CRP payment than I paid for the ranch, Over 14 years, we...

We bought a bunch of Falcata and planted it with grass seed using a grass drill. A few plants appeared on some 400 acres and they turned up with blue flowers. The replaced the seed and we tried again. Still nothing to show for it. Sounded like a good idea, but we figured it wasn't intended...

Are you talking about falcata? I have a lot of experience with that - unfortunately it was all bad. CP

We only kept about 85 or 90 cows. Burnt, I guess we put up about 100-150 tons of hay each year. We could mow about 8-10 acres per day. Rake about twice as much. Stacking was slow since we had cows to milk in the morning and evening. We hauled about a ton of hay in a load and got about 11 or...

More years ago than I like to remember, my Dad, brother and I ran a 1700 acres ranch in Colorado with nothing more than three horses - two draft horses and one saddle horse. We cut hay with a horse-drawn mower, raked with a dump rake and stacked with a hayrack and a couple of pitchforks. In...

Burnt, Bales here run about 65-70 pounds. If you can get a compressor and really pack them tight, they sell for $11.00 at the feed store. They take a regular bal and smash it until it is maybe 18" long. Saves on hauling and storage, I guess. I could never pay $11 for a bale of hay . I...

If you want to do it cheap, you can get an older NH 1037 pull type stacker which handles 104 bales pretty cheap. You can haul a load about every 30-45 minutes depending on how far you are transporting them. A good operator can do a real nice job if the bales are solid And the ground pretty...

We sold our ranch last year (for $235.00 per acre). When we bought it, it was several thousand acres. We had 6 unowned parcels inside of the ranch. By the time we sold it 15 years later, the only remaining parcel was a state section and they are tough to deal with. It was actually much...

We usually use four wires, but one neighbor likes five. We have about 80 miles of fence and about 1500 animals. Since we rebuilt our fences a years or so ago, we haven't had a single stray either getting in or out. If your cattle get used to having a good fence, they won't try to cross...

There are huge amounts of corn coming out of areas where little corn was grown before. Our tenant is just finishing up cutting his corn. Elevators won't (can't) take it because their storage is full with a big wheat crop and corn is piled everywhere. Feedyards show no desire to buy it up and...

We have both a private lease and a State lease. The state adjusts its rental comparisons so that the tenant must pay both for fences and water. Generally, in private leases, the landlord is expected to take care of this. We have one private lease which covers 320 acres. The previous tenant...

You sure are right about the humidity in Colorado - we don't have very much. Often during a hot day, the humidity is about 10-15%. That is the primary reason so many people are moving here. Don't know whether lots of people are worse than humidity. :-)

Can't be a lot of places hotter than than eastern Colorado in July. And for the most part, there is no shade around. Our cows lay around in the hot part of the day and graze in the mornings and evenings. In the one or two pastures with shade, the cows don't particularly want to lay in the...

We missed the worst of the December Colorado blizzard and our wheat fields are pretty bare already. Hundreds of antelope - maybe thousands - have drifted into our area and are camped on the wheat fields. Wonder what they do for water since all of our cattle are elsewhere and the tanks are...

Colorado trust lands are not public in the sense that anyone can go onto them. They are rented out and the money is supposed to filter back into the school system. If these were handled economically----------which they are not------- they would be sold and the funds used to create a school...

You would be beating a dead horse in Colorado. Our state lands are all leased for 5-10 years. They post a list of expiring leases in the county court houses some time before the lease is up for remewal. If you bid on one, and you are the highest bidder, the existing leaseholder has the right...

This is an interesting thread. I would never try to start an operation on leased land unless it was Forest Service or BLM with assurance that you had a chance to continue. There are a lot of operations that do that. A couple of instances where folks are trying to do what you plan. Around...