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Mike Schwab

04-29-2001 04:00:36

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i live in northern wyoming due to the water shortage this year i plowed up about 10 acres of my ground that i was just going to leave for the summer and replant next year i was wondering if i could go back with hay next spring or should i do somthing like oats and then hay?

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PatM

05-01-2001 06:26:26

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Re: wondering about planting hay in reply to Mike Schwab, 04-29-2001 04:00:36

Try your county extension agent. They should have a lot of information available, what to plant, when to plant, etc. This is a link to the Wyoming Extension Service web site

Wyoming State Extension Web Site

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Don H

04-30-2001 19:49:34

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Re: wondering about planting hay in reply to Mike Schwab, 04-29-2001 04:00:36

I grew up in central Wisconsin where the climate is probably quite a bit different than yours, but we always planted oats and sowed the grass seed on the same trip. It was alfalfa or alfalfa/clover mix, and the oats provided both a harvestable crop and good cover while the grass seed got started. The hay crop was always good the second year after it was planted. Then we harvested hay for 3-5 years before we rotated with corn. If it was mine I'd put the oats and alfalfa (assuming alfalfa is what you want) in at the same time and let the oats be your cover crop the first year.

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Keewaydin

05-01-2001 13:13:45

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Re: Re: wondering about planting hay in reply to Don H, 04-30-2001 19:49:34

In south-central Maine it has been very common practice to seed oats and grass together on newly opened land. Alfalfa doesn't like our climate all that well. Oats and a mixture of timothy and clover did OK. Some would cut the oats early for oat hay, others would hope to thresh them out.

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paul

04-30-2001 11:52:08

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Re: wondering about planting hay in reply to Mike Schwab, 04-29-2001 04:00:36

What do you mean by 'hay'?

Grass plants.
Grass/alfalfa/clover mixture?
Alfalfa?

You shouldn't plant alfalfa seed into a field that has had growing alfalfa on it for 3 (warm, active) months, preferably a whole year. The growing alfalfa is toxic to it's own seed.

If it's all the same to you, probably best to just keep it black for a year. The oats will help control erosion tho, which could be a problem.

However, oats & grass hay are similar plants, and you will have a hard time contolling weeds and grass regrowth in the oats. Around here we'd put in corn or soybeans for a year to disrupt the weed pattern, but that may not be options for you. (Corn is also a grass, but can at least be cultivated & has more chemical options.)

--->Paul

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