Comments on: In The Middle Of Fescue-Land http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2008/09/08/in-the-middle-of-fescue-land/ No hormones. No antibiotics. No subsidies. Just real food for real people. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2008/09/08/in-the-middle-of-fescue-land/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Steven Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:41:15 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/?p=122#comment-97 Rich, I'd love to do UHSD Grazing but with only 4 cows, 2 calves, a steer and a small bull, it's a little hard to do. We're grazing them in small paddocks of about 25-40' x 200' and they are doing pretty well at eating what they want. Hopefully when the "good stuff" is more established we will have more animals and will be able to hit each paddock a little harder, forcing them to eat or trample the stuff they don't like so much too. Rich,
I’d love to do UHSD Grazing but with only 4 cows, 2 calves, a steer and a small bull, it’s a little hard to do. We’re grazing them in small paddocks of about 25-40′ x 200′ and they are doing pretty well at eating what they want. Hopefully when the “good stuff” is more established we will have more animals and will be able to hit each paddock a little harder, forcing them to eat or trample the stuff they don’t like so much too.

]]> By: Rich http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2008/09/08/in-the-middle-of-fescue-land/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Rich Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:46:36 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/?p=122#comment-91 I seeded an area after a tornado cleanup, (lots of disturbed soil, and areas of subsoil from digging pits) by broadcasting a native seed mixture (big bluestem, little bluestem, switchgrass, etc) and then dragging an old gate behind the truck all over the area. Supposedly, simply using ultra high stocking densities will also cause native prairie grasses to reestablish in pastures (something about native grasses spreading mainly by rhizome activity and having extremely deep roots) The easiest way to convert cropland to pasture would be to simply leave the stubble after harvest, wait for volunteer grasses like crabgrass to start growing, and then start grazing using a high stocking density. There is some information about reseeding cropland to perennial grasses at: http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-2549/NREM-2581web.pdf I seeded an area after a tornado cleanup, (lots of disturbed soil, and areas of subsoil from digging pits) by broadcasting a native seed mixture (big bluestem, little bluestem, switchgrass, etc) and then dragging an old gate behind the truck all over the area.

Supposedly, simply using ultra high stocking densities will also cause native prairie grasses to reestablish in pastures (something about native grasses spreading mainly by rhizome activity and having extremely deep roots)

The easiest way to convert cropland to pasture would be to simply leave the stubble after harvest, wait for volunteer grasses like crabgrass to start growing, and then start grazing using a high stocking density.

There is some information about reseeding cropland to perennial grasses at:

http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-2549/NREM-2581web.pdf

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