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Direct seeding pastures and hay fields?

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Jeff From WI.

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I am thinking about having my pastures and some of my steeper slopes direct seeded into a good horse hay pasture grass mix.

Can I get a crop off if I seed like this this year.

Or should I just disk it up a little and spread seed it with grass seeds and oats?

Thanks Jeff
 
Jeff, I've top seeded my pasture and hay field a few times in the early spring and it helped, but it seems as the emergence is spotty due to a lack of good soil contact. My best top seeding came from spreading in winter where the snow and frost takes the seed into the ground.
Unless you are using a notill Brillion, I'd disc it up a little and run a packer over it to get the soil contact. Seed is too expensive this year to feed to the birds and mice.
My 2 cents.
 
I use a TYE no-till drill to overseed my pastures every year. I let the cows flashgraze each paddock, then interseed about 6# of pasture mix and 3# of forage radish. I usually also spin on a few pounds of red clover in Feb. or March. I went ti MIG grazing with an NRCS grant about five of six years ago, and the pasture has been better every year since, even at a stocking rate of over 2 AU/A.
 
I used a tye drill this year to interseed into some pastures this year also. The tilliage radish will direct seed into sod? Does it last all season long for multiple grazings? Thanks in advance.
 
Im' using 'forage' radish or turnip, not the tillage radish. According to what I have, the turnip is supposed to prety much last the season. But, in MIG grazing systems, you don't want to graze the pasture tight every time. You want to leave a few inches of growth when the pasture gets changed. If you can see the animals feet, it's time to put them in a new pasture....
 
I have grazed turnips and forage rape in previous years but I did not no-till it, I did conventional tilliage and was curious how the turnips come up in a pasture interseeded situation. As I recall the rape I did multiple grazings on and the turnips I did a on time strip graze through, both done in the fall.
 
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