Just for Soapweed...and Lilly.

[Jassy]

I thought of you soapweed when I took this photo.

There was alot of dew on the grass yesterday morning, and with the sunshine it made everything sparkle.

Here ya go Lilly...just so you know that Soapweed isn't hoggin all the sunflowers...lol

You're right Soapweed, after the rain over the weekend ,things sure greened up alot. This is moving the Fall Cows closer to home, cause they'll be calving by TOMORROW!...had 2 babies in the pasture already.

 

[Soapweed]

Nice pictures. Thanks for thinking of me when you took them. :wink: Aren't the sunflowers pretty this year? The ol' Sandhills are pretty special, and I feel privileged to live in them.

 

[elwapo]

Interesting weed. Do livestock eat it?

 

[Ranchy]

Great pics! You have so many sunflowers, though! :shock:

We have quite a few this year, but they're really "patchy".......a patch here, a patch there. The old garden is filled with them!

Love your pic of the ranch sign, too, looks great with the mailbox and sunflowers. :nod:

 

[Soapweed]

Interesting weed. Do livestock eat it?

Livestock doesn't seem to graze sunflowers, but they will eat it if it is put up as hay and then fed out on a cold winter day.

 

[Jinglebob]

Interesting weed. Do livestock eat it?

Livestock doesn't seem to graze sunflowers, but they will eat it if it is put up as hay and then fed out on a cold winter day.

Weeelll, if your cows ain't pussies, they will eat them standing! :wink: :lol:

 

[Soapweed]

Interesting weed. Do livestock eat it?

Livestock doesn't seem to graze sunflowers, but they will eat it if it is put up as hay and then fed out on a cold winter day.

Weeelll, if your cows ain't pussies, they will eat them standing! :wink: :lol:

Around here, cows are cows and the pussies eat pudding off the porch with the pooch. :wink:

 

[Jinglebob]

Livestock doesn't seem to graze sunflowers, but they will eat it if it is put up as hay and then fed out on a cold winter day.

Weeelll, if your cows ain't pussies, they will eat them standing! :wink: :lol:

Around here, cows are cows and the pussies eat pudding off the porch with the pooch. :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I just knew I could get a good comeback from you, Soapweed! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Wow!!! Thanks Jassy, you got your "hog" share of em too. Ya know I was thankin bout it today, all them sunflowers ya'll got in them sandhills, and ya know what.....there's sunflowers like that in the sandhills of west texas...not prolly quite as many, but a good crop most years. Just them sand hills aint covered with grass......just sand dunes LOL

 

[CattleRMe]

Sunflowers baled and then put out on the first snow seem to attract cows.

The oldtimers used to say that the snow will get as deep as the heighth of a sunflower.................looking at the ones around here.......ekk!

 

[Jassy]

After the showers and cool weather over the weekend, the sunflowers really had their shining moment in the morning sun today.

My grandfather use to say the same thing, about the snow will be as deep as the sunflowers...course who goes out and measures sunflowers? lol

 

[Red Barn Angus]

Those of you in Nebraska will remember better than I do but it seems to me that years ago the Nebraska legislature was about to declare the sunflower a noxious weed. Folks in Kansas raised such a fuss that the legislature backed down from their declaration. The sunflower is the Kansas state flower !!

 

[Faster horses]

If there was anything in Montana that yellow it would be one of two things:

a.) sweet clover
b.) leafy spurge

 

[IL Rancher]

Arrowhead balsaroot is a yellow flower to FH... Don't make me put on my Range Science thinking cap :wink: I'mnot sure i fits so goo anymore anyways, Don't remember half of what I learned.

It might be arrowleaf balsaroot... sunflower like flower, low to the groud with an arrow head shapped leaf... Saw them up in the hills around the Gallatin Canyon a lot..

I hate my keyboard.. It is dropping key strokes left and right.

 

[Faster horses]

Yellow flower, but it doesn't grow that densely.

 

[IL Rancher]

Wel there is looking at in a different way than I was I was thinkin individual flowers and you were meaning big picture in a landscape kind of way sorry FH...

First time I saw Sunflower fields in south Dakota I thought they were about the prettiest crop I have ever seen.. We only grow them around here to hunt doves over.. Never thought of rolling them up for cow food... Interesting idea.... We have some wild ones growing from when folks tried growing them around here 15-20 years ago.. Didn't make as much money as corn did as the marketing was a bit harder.