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chrisinsoky

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i want to build some new pasture for the cows, i want something that will grow or at least stay green all year round. somethin to sow in Feb. if possble, what would you sow? and at what rate per acre?
i am in so ky, so we get some freezing temps so i understand there is a time a year that notuuin grow, i will pullin soil samples and correcting ph as needed
 
I dont know anything that will grow on both frozen ground and in the heat of summer. A true mixture of perennials wont help much either as you only net a half stand of each.

With that said, a grazing type alfalfa overseeded in the fall with rye will come as close as you can to year round green grazing. The drawbacks are you will get a lot of damage to the alfalfa crowns in the mud like we've got now and the rye has to be planted every year.

If you can get several fields to rotate your total overall yield will be higher and costs lower. For spring and fall its hard to beat a cool season grass mix of fescue, bluegrass, orchard grass, and ladino clover. In the dead of summer grazing alfalfa or eastern gamma grass, and then an annual grain crop like rye, grazing corn, etc. UK did some plot work last year on using corn for grazing. One guy here ran around 50 cow calf pairs on on 20 acres of corn using portable electric fencing last winter. Ended up feeding no hay.
 
its in a good mixture of fescue, and white clover now, my neighbors farm is in crp and she has some sorta plant (maybe a vetch)that is still green and growing it makes like a gound matt to descibe it/ what would that be?
 
around here a lot of guys buy a pasture mix different grasses clover and ryes sprouts fast ,now would be a good time to spread it out andd let the frost work it in
 
where you located leland?
i thought about sowin now but the feed store guy said that 1/2 the seed wont sprout but would rot. he said i was better off diskin it in. in march
 
talk to your county agent. He can look at it and make the proper recommendations. I'm not sure you can graze anything year around and grass needs a recovery time where it isn't getting eaten and trampled.
 
Go to your local seed dealer and follow his suggestions as he knows what will work best on your ground and area.
 
Something to consider is stocking rates. Here I see people buy a 10 or 20 acre pasture and turn in half a dozen horses. This is land that might support one horse on a year-round basis. (semi-arid) So anyway, they overgraze and in a year or 2 all that grows are weeds that the horses won't eat. Then they blame the land.
 
It could be vetch though mine is pretty much toast from the last cold snap. What I've got growing right now is henbit, chickweed, and some wild violets. Nothing anything would want to eat.

As to where I am, I'm between Lawrenceburg and Harrodsburg, 12 miles south of Frankfort, 21 miles west of Lexington.

I like rye, and wheat for that matter. This year the seed price was worth it to plant wheat as opposed to rye. Rye yields more and grows later but wheat seed was a third the price and they eat it a lot better.
 
Western Washington is about as temperate as anyplace outside the "deep south", and most winters, grass stays green- but its not really growing, and you can't pasture it without killing it. There's just no substitute for heat, for growing forage.
 
The inlaws live down that way. Not IN Gravel Switch,but I know where it is. Been there. We had a vet here for a while who was from there. His grandparents ran a general store down south of town somewhere for a lot of years. Does the name Whitlock ring a bell?
 
nah, the only thing I know in GS is the massey dealer, he smiles when he sees me coming, I farm bout 30 miles NW of there outside of Taylorsville, little bit hilly around GS
 
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