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I'd do anything to have days like this...

IluvAltaBeef

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Oh the nice summer days, warm breezes, green grass, clear skies, cattle out happily grazing in the pasture...{sigh}

Still got another four months or so to go before we see any of that...

Besides, supposed to be the total opposite of this pic in this week into next. :( Oh well, it's Canuckian weather, what d'ya expect?
 

Jassy

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That green grass and blue sky is sure a teaser..especially now with all the snow some folks got! Sure is pretty though...
 

IL Rancher

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May 1st is always one of my favorite days of the year... Sometimes we can start grazing good earlier and sometimes we have to be a bit later but May 1st is generally a safe bet.. I love those late March/early April days though as the grass changes from that shade of brown it had all year and starts greening up again... Sure signs of spring..
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Mr Lilly's grandpa always had his corn in the ground on Valentine's Day....always without fail. I always thought that was awful early, but his corn always produced Great. And alot earlier than others around here too.
 

IL Rancher

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Corn in the ground by Valentines day... Yikes... I think most are putting it in the ground between April 15th and May 1st and I have seen that bite people in the butt with a late may frost... Nothing you can do about that however...

I know when we moved here it was about the 10th of May and all the corn as already a good foot tall or so and the beans were being put in..


I think the earliest thing in the ground is Spring Barley or oats in late march/early April...
 

Mike

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IL Rancher said:
Corn in the ground by Valentines day... Yikes... I think most are putting it in the ground between April 15th and May 1st and I have seen that bite people in the butt with a late may frost... Nothing you can do about that however...

I know when we moved here it was about the 10th of May and all the corn as already a good foot tall or so and the beans were being put in..


I think the earliest thing in the ground is Spring Barley or oats in late march/early April...

Corn HAS to be planted early down here because the heat. My neighbor has picked/combined corn in July for the past few years.

I have planted beans as late as July 1 and made 35-40 bushels also.

We plant Oats, Wheat, Etc. in the fall and gather in May.
 

IL Rancher

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I understand that Mike, it is just hard for this Northern boy to even imagine platning anything in Feb... I mean Feb is the time for snow storms and fixing alll the stuff that broke last planting season.
 

Northern Rancher

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Well this Northern boy got some rye seeded 12/01-I hired a guy to broadcast it on top of the snow in a big peatmoss meadow. The freeze/thaw got it covered enough to germinate and we got some good grazing off it. Normal seeding times that meadow can be under flood.
 

nr

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Northern Rancher said:
Well this Northern boy got some rye seeded 12/01-I hired a guy to broadcast it on top of the snow in a big peatmoss meadow. The freeze/thaw got it covered enough to germinate and we got some good grazing off it. Normal seeding times that meadow can be under flood.

That sounds like some tricky timing, NR :) You weren't born yesterday.
 

IL Rancher

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Rye around here, assuming you mean cereal rye, generally gets planted right after corn or beans are harvested. The earlier in the better in most cases.. Some folks actually have gone to spreading it over standing crops by using an airplane... Seems a bit expensive to be honest but who knows... Don't know how many pounds of seed those planes can carry in one pass. Those guys say it works best in beans as the stubble and leaves from corn kind of slow growth but they claim that after the cows clean off the residue from the corn the stuff takes off... Some folks have done the grazing this way for year round and getting good gains... I like that idea, lol... Always a few warnings with it..

The more tradiitonal way is to plant after harvest, broadcast and lightly disk it in and than fertilize it sometime in January or whenever the ground is frozen with some dry urea. Graze it come Apri 1st to 15th depending on the year... Once that stuff gets going in the spring it is easy to get behind it.
 

peg4x4

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Wish I could post photos--pear tree is blooming(that means a saint lives in the house,I'm told) grass comeing up,butterflys,flowers,ICE by next Sunday,they say....
 

Work Hard and Study Hard

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Mike said:
IL Rancher said:
Corn in the ground by Valentines day... Yikes... I think most are putting it in the ground between April 15th and May 1st and I have seen that bite people in the butt with a late may frost... Nothing you can do about that however...

I know when we moved here it was about the 10th of May and all the corn as already a good foot tall or so and the beans were being put in..


I think the earliest thing in the ground is Spring Barley or oats in late march/early April...

Corn HAS to be planted early down here because the heat. My neighbor has picked/combined corn in July for the past few years.

I have planted beans as late as July 1 and made 35-40 bushels also.

We plant Oats, Wheat, Etc. in the fall and gather in May.

It would have to be spring wheat right? Since you probably couldn't get winter wheat to go dormant?
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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WHSH......down here in the south, wheat, oats and rye grass, grows durin the winter. It doesn't go dormant. It's planted in the fall of the year, and comes up, stays green all winter into the spring, until tempuratures get too high for it to grow.....but your sposta harvest it before then, or like most around here they use it for grazing durin the winter months.
 
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