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NEMO | I've never understood why we throw 50 or 60 pounds of N on our fescue pastures right now when we will get a pretty good natural spring flush without it.
In an ideal world I'd put it on late April/early May right ahead of a rain. I feel this is the best bang for the buck - here in NEMO.
I've seen where we put it on early, it warms up, get the grass growing good, then it frosts in April and seems to really set it back.
Every year is different. So who knows what is best. But with several different pastures scattered around our timing is spread out. So one might be surprised at the spring flush of grass without fertilizer - if it rains! I know I have been.
Lately been trying to improve pastures with legumes. Last year that was a flop as we didn't get the spring rains to get the clover and alfalfa going good.
Like a lot of things in farming, the time to do something is when you can. So from that standpoint go for it.
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How early could/should a guy topdress urea on grass?
