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Maintaning a hay field

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How long can a newly seeded grassy hay field last with proper fertilizer? I know there are things that cannot be helped like the weather.but if a person took soil samples every year and fertilized it
 
I have cut hay off my fields now for 30 plus years. I do run a few horses on it 24/7 and that is all the fertilizer I use and most years I do pretty well with the hay. Most years I get 50 plus big round bales and another 250 or so square bales and this is probably only about 20 or so acres. The exact size of the field I do not know.
 
Go to <freemaptools.com> and then "area calculator" and measure it.
Sounds like a little over 2T which is good for no chem app. I would get a soil test every 3rd year to look at all the parameters. Best $30 investment you'll ever make.
 
Why fix what isn't broken. I have always had a good hay yield if we have a good rain year. People in this area seem to want my hay once they buy one bale but I do also try to plant clover every other year or so and this years crop with the lack of rain was good and very heavy with lespadisa (sp)
 
I have several fields that have not been planted since the 60s'. The oldest one I farm that I planted is about 15 years old. It is now a mix of 25% alfalfa/legumes and the rest grass. I put horse manure on it and lime it every 1/2 dozen years. Getting a lot of manure on a field, liming and early spring late winter no-tilling clovers or trefoils every 5 or 10 years keeps a field going like this forever. Plant new fallow ground, maintane your existing fields. the recommendations often advised are for large scale producers and dairy farmers, economics don't pan out for the average.
 
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