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Arkansas (pics)

Red Robin

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I sprayed for a friend of mine today. I traded spraying for hay.
He has a place here where the thistles were getting pretty thick.
I thought it might be interesting to some of ya'll from flat country.

Here is a train tressel in the bottom middle crossing bear creek. North of Harrison
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Rolling grass
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His tractor, my sprayer
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His window, my tracks
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Beautiful thistles in the foreground, evidence of a puckered up driver in the back.
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ranchwife

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thanks for the pictures of what "green" looks like!! :lol: :lol: Ya know, being from here and not having seen much else, my first impression of Arkansas was like that of other "mid-west" states....FLAT!! I was pleasantly surprised when, in 1996, my hubby and I had to travel to Heber Springs to retrieve my two children from their Biological father!! The green and the rolling hills and all the trees simply had me in awe!!! :D
 

Ranchy

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WOW!!!!! It's really green there already! Looks like our country, in a really good year...... :wink: Great pics, loved the reflection on the window, too! Very cute! :wink:
 

Mrs.Greg

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Beautiful colour the colour green! We have not seen that green for years :( Your pictures are really nice!Thank-you for sharing,I love seeing different places!
 

George

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I know my son loves the large flat fields for row crop - - - - but I feel the gently rolling hills are the best you can get. :D

I'm surprised to not see at least one picture with cattle spread out on those beautiful hills :( :eek: :roll:
 

Red Robin

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Mrs.Greg said:
Beautiful colour the colour green! We have not seen that green for years :( Your pictures are really nice!Thank-you for sharing,I love seeing different places!
I'll get you some pictures of real grass today. It's been dry (up till a few weeks ago) here and some of the more shallow soil places lost some grass. The grass in the pictures is mostly cheat and wild grass. It's alright this time of year but goes to nothing pretty quick when the summer heat gets here. Our improved grasses are mostly fescue and orchard grass . They are really doing good.
 

Red Robin

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Here is my upside down yardstick in the middle of this mess.
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Gateway to grass
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different seed field
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Cidir recipients
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Worlds best mechanic. He can fix computers or bulldozers correctly.
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Anonymous

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Red Robin- My cows would founder just looking at that much green grass :wink: :lol:
 

Red Robin

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Oldtimer, looks can be decieving. It takes a belly full of this stuff to keep them from losing weight . In your country you can turn them out in the spring and they gain BCS. Here they're losing body condition as long as they're lactating. In the fall when you go to feeding , our cows put back on the weight they lost all summer. It's pretty good in the fall and we don't have to winter feed much if we manage it correctly. It sure is different type forages. Some friends of mine say a mouthfull of your hard type shortgrass does more for cows than a belly full or this washy grass down here.
 
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Anonymous

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Red Robin said:
Oldtimer, looks can be decieving. It takes a belly full of this stuff to keep them from losing weight . In your country you can turn them out in the spring and they gain BCS. Here they're losing body condition as long as they're lactating. In the fall when you go to feeding , our cows put back on the weight they lost all summer. It's pretty good in the fall and we don't have to winter feed much if we manage it correctly. It sure is different type forages. Some friends of mine say a mouthfull of your hard type shortgrass does more for cows than a belly full or this washy grass down here.

Yep- I've pretty much heard the same thing- but it sure is pretty.....
 

cert

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Red Robin said:
Gateway to grass
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Fighting to get the gates open thru the tall grass is a pain somedays. But I don't complain about it very often. As soon as the cidr's go in our cows get turned into the grass. Makes AIing a more colorful job. :lol:
 

Faster horses

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Wow, that is pretty stuff. We don't have WEEDS that do that good! :wink:

I notice the seed heads are already on the grass. When that happens even here in shortgrass country, the grass starts to deteriorate in value.

Loved the picture of the cows under the tree in the GRASS!
 

George

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I had major problems with fescue pastures - - - weight loss - - - tender feet - - - standing in water.

Faster Horses made me aware of a special “Fescue Blend” mineral. VigorTone is not readily available in this area but I made my feed dealer aware this product existed.

I was able to see a difference in 3 days. In about two weeks you would not believe the improvement. I pay $18.65 per 50# which is $0.09 per head per day and is worth every penny and more!!

I am using the Fescue blend with IGR - - -

Find a VigorTone dealer if one is available or go to your feed dealer and request they get what you need. Your cattle will amaze you with the gains they will make on that fescue.
 

Red Robin

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Thanks for the compliments and advise. You guys are too kind. It's like the pretty woman telling the ugly one she looks nice. The northern plains in the U.S. and in Canada is way better grass country. Ours has it's advantages but the quality of the grass isn't one of them.
 

sw

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Looks nice though RR, I wish I was going to get more time to look up close and personal with some of that. I always thought Arkansas was plumb flat. Guess I will learn something.
 

Faster horses

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My dad's family is from Missouri and it too, is a beautiful state. Very hilly and wooded.

Just too hot and muggy in the summertime. When it rains there, it really gets with it. We just don't get rain like that.

The last time I was there, some Charolais cattle were submerged in a pond. All that was sticking out were their
heads. I'd never seen anything like that before.

Don't know if it was the heat or the flies or both that had them there.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Ours do it because of the heat, won't be a fly in site and they'll go off into the tank or creek n just stand there.......up to their chin in the water.
Some do it more than others. The one's that have more brahman influence dont' do it as much as the one's that are strait angus or hereford. It don't bother me that they do this, they only stay there 30 minutes or so usually, then they go on about their business of eatin grass.

Great pictures!!! Looks alot like here, except you have bigger hills.
 
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