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Seeding pasture/hay mix

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Illinois Farmal

12-12-2006 17:51:35




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I have a small piece of ground (approx 3 acres) that I want to put back to pasture/hay next spring. The past couple of years I've used it for corn for my feeder steers but it's getting to the point where I'm in more need of pasture and hay than growing my own corn. My question is, what would be the best way to prepare and reseed the ground. I don't have a drill so most likely I'll have to use an ATV spreader to seed with. Can I work the ground up good, seed and pull a harrow over it? What would be the recommended seeding rate? Thanks for any and all advice.

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BC in TN

12-13-2006 15:11:19




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 Re: Seeding pasture/hay mix in reply to Illinois Farmall, 12-12-2006 17:51:35  
Great input from all these folks.
Once your ground is worked up well as you indicated next step is to get a soil sample.
My local Co-op will have it tested without cost (understanding you'll buy seed and fertilizer from them). When you get the analysis back it will tell you how much fertilizer to use. Tell the folks at the Co-op what you want to do (sow pasture ground) and they'll give you some options.
They will then mix your seed and your fertilizer, put it in a buggy you can pull with your pickup and tell you how to operate the buggy. Real cost is just a few dollars more than you could do all this for yourself. Cover your seed & fertilizer lightly with a cultipacker or chain link fence or railroad tie, etc.

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unioncreek

12-13-2006 06:13:39




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 Re: Seeding pasture/hay mix in reply to Illinois Farmall, 12-12-2006 17:51:35  
Work the ground good to get a good seedbed, it should be packed enough that you only sink in 1/4" when you walk across it. I would then broadcast and then run a roller packer across it. If you use a harrow with the teeth down it will bury the seed too deep. I use pieces of chain link fence hooked together and it works just right.

Bobg



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Brian in MO

12-12-2006 19:30:46




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 Re: Seeding pasture/hay mix in reply to Illinois Farmall, 12-12-2006 17:51:35  
The way we usually do it is work the ground up with a disk or a field cultivater either way we end up using a field cultivater because it helps level up and smooth out the ground, then our local coop has a good selection of seed options (in your case we would use "pasture mix" but what ever seed you want) so we have them mix the seed and at least enough fertilizer to carry the seed in a buggy and spread it ourselves, or have them bring their floater truck out and spread it for us if we are busy. The cost of the buggy or their truck is really not very much compared to the time it takes with bags of seed and a 4-wheeler spreading it at least for us it's worth it. Just my opinion Brian

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MikeinKy

12-12-2006 19:19:13




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 Re: Seeding pasture/hay mix in reply to Illinois Farmall, 12-12-2006 17:51:35  
What I do, is I recently disked my corn stalks to get them chopped up. This winter,about the last of February to the middle of March I sow the seed on top of the ground and the freezing and thawing works it in enough to sprout and grow. I either sow a clover/orchardgrass mix, or I buy a premixed pasture mix. It has 3 types of clover, orchardgrass, timothy, alfalfa, and some other grass in it. I think I sow about 6-8# of clover and about 10-12# of orchardgrass per acre.
Hope that helps.

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