Can't remember when

[burnt]

We have so much grass that the cows are still on pasture without needing any supplemental feed. And they will be out on strictly grass for almost another month if I fence the 3rd cut.

The almost 30 inches of rain we got since May on top of the good shot of fertilizer I put on in April gave us hay and grass like we've never grown in years and years.

There is clover growing on gravel knolls and along the lane where I have never seen clover before. I have no idea where it came from.

The girls got moved onto a piece of 4th cut today, right outside my window as I type, and they are in grass and alfalfa up to their ears!! 4th cut, I say! Unheard of on this place in my lifetime here.

The only thing I gotta watch for is frost on the alfalfa. It may be coming early next week by the forecast.

Oh yeah and another thing to watch is to stay out of range when a cow lifts her tail . . . hasn't been a formed cow pie around here all summer!

Edit: Some dairy guys take a 4th cut around here but they cut it before it blooms.

 

[Denny]

Rain is a wonderful thing..

 

[Anonymous]

We've never had a year like this either-- altho we only got 17 inches so far this year (our yearly total average is 11.5)- we have grass everywhere- and still green and growing... And every waterhole has water in it.....

And with the warm dry weather we've had the last week or so most folks are now getting their combining and haying done... Combiners finished on ours on Tuesday- and Wednesday I moved cows down onto the stubble fields/hay fields to let the calves puss up ...

It was a kind of bad day- good day for me... Bad because I had to put a 28 year old retired saddle horse down- but good because I found the last wheat fields ran 15.9 for protein (protein has been low this year around here)- and got a good look at all the water and grass still around...

I'm hoping that if we don't get a heavy snow cover- I can graze til about January at least....

 

[Dylan Biggs]

Burnt sounds like a banner year, 4th cut, unbelievable, good for you.

 

[Dylan Biggs]

We've never had a year like this either-- altho we only got 17 inches so far this year (our yearly total average is 11.5)- we have grass everywhere- and still green and growing... And every waterhole has water in it.....

And with the warm dry weather we've had the last week or so most folks are now getting their combining and haying done... Combiners finished on ours on Tuesday- and Wednesday I moved cows down onto the stubble fields/hay fields to let the calves puss up ...

It was a kind of bad day- good day for me... Bad because I had to put a 28 year old retired saddle horse down- but good because I found the last wheat fields ran 15.9 for protein (protein has been low this year around here)- and got a good look at all the water and grass still around...

I'm hoping that if we don't get a heavy snow cover- I can graze til about January at least....

OT, sorry to hear about your saddle horse. My 29 year old gelding spent his last summer also.

Glad to hear your harvest is going well.