cows-n-crops - 12/14/2024 14:19
6030Deere - 12/14/2024 06:13
Wow the hate for fescue!!
It’s the only thing that doesn’t shut down during then heat and rapidly recovers when moisture shows up!when brome and orchard shut down they are done on the clay hills!
I’d hate to see it farmed just to end up in a government program.
I’d probably be finding some nice heifers and throw a bull with them for the summer and sell next winter.
You could run 40-70 head depending how long you want the graze to last and how much supplement you want to give.
Steers would allow you to not have winter chores but take some time to put together to get them bought right.
+1
If it weren't for fescue Missouri and Southern Iowa wouldn't have any grass.
Throw some clover out to supplement it and it can make nice pasture. You can abuse it and fescue keeps coming back year after year.
I still seed good old ky31 fescue in new hay or pasture mixes because I want something there and growing in a few years when other stuff dies off.
You do realize that fescue was most likely “imported” from Europe or England……. Southern Iowa and North Missouri was far from a barren waste land of bare dirt and yellow clay prior to fescue’s importation…..
If you had 75 acres of grass…
