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Wanted to ask all of you on here about establishing grass on cropland. We have made a deal with my folks to buy out the rest of the ranch, which consists of 860 acres of cropland that they've been renting to my good friend down the road. I want to put it all into forage in the spring, and I'm curious to know everyone's past experiences. This is very light and sandy land. Low organic matter levels, pH as low as 5.1 on the worst field, so I'm seriously considering letting these worst areas grow in "au naturale", and just graze them intensively on whatever comes up. By that I mean give 250 cows 1 or 2 acre strips for 12-24 hours, then let it rest again for the year. We'll have lots of mineral tubs out with alfalfa mixed in, and with the hoof action and stock density I'm thinking it could work well, but curious to know if anyone's tried it.

Northern, I remember you saying you did it on the home 1/2 there, did you put out any seed for that?

Thanks in advance folks.
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