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Played out Paddocks

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John

07-07-2000 11:54:47




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Greetings, I have taken over management of a horse farm with a couple of really lousy paddocks -- they were overgrazed and undernourished and now they're all weeds and barespots. I'm thinking about taking my worst one and plowing it under in the fall, discing it, reseeding fescue (we have no broodmares) and then spreading manure over it . Is that a reasonable course of action or is there something else y'all recommend?

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Paul

07-09-2000 06:53:33




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 Re: Played out Paddocks in reply to John, 07-07-2000 11:54:47  
I had the same problem with a overgrazed, weedy horse pasture. I sprayed the area with roundup and two weeks later planted roundup ready soybeans right into the sod. This loosens up the soil real well, gets rid of the weeds, and you have a field ready to plant whatever you want the next year.



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Burrhead

07-07-2000 15:10:03




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 Re: Played out Paddocks in reply to John, 07-07-2000 11:54:47  
John if you've got absolutely nothing to build from that's probly the best to do.

In the mean while since it's the wrong time of the year to plant anything you might try aerorating and then put about 150-200 pounds of ammonim sulphate, or 150-200 pounds per acre of 60-40-30. Keep the paddocks bush hogged down real close( every week or 2) til you drive the weeds back. The constant close cutting will kill the weeds back, and shock what grass is there back into production.

What grass you have left will over take the weeds and choke them out completely before too long.
You might already have timothy, bermuda, and fescue that just can't compete with the over graze and weed problem. When you aerorate the ground and shock the rhizomes and stalons you already have, you might not have to re-establish the grass.

If you don't have access to an aerorater just let all the angle out of your disc so they don't flip the soil and put enough weights on them so they sink deep into the ground, that works real well to aerorate with.

I hope this will help. Jerry

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