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We are doing some CRP haying. The first field has been in CRP for over 22 years. Primarily switchgrass. VERY rough with those big old clumps.
Second field is full of large (up to 30 inch) ant hills. Look like fire ants but according to the Ag dept at SDSU they are formica ants. This field is at 15 years of continuous CRP.
USDA ought to get educated and not allow rollover of CRP but a minimum of two year crop farming between contracts.
Good news is that we are getting about 4.5 tons of grass per acre mowing at 8 inch level. With a ten percent per acre penalty. IE if your annual is $100 you pay $10 per acre.
 
I think every CRP field here in NE South Dakota has been hayed, and I know your area is much drier than we are! I was in some yesterday that sounds similar to yours: high yield but very rough (ants, pocket gophers, and sprayer ruts)... what do you cut yours with? I've had the best of luck with a 1475 vs. the sickle mower...
 
I thought the whole point of CRP was to keep marginal ground in grass to prevent erosion?

4.5 tons per acre is pretty high, is that right? That is more than we get in our wet climate cutting at normal height.
 
Here in MO you are supposed to brush hog 1/2 of the field every year - but wait until AFTER the nesting season is over.
 
(quoted from post at 01:09:09 08/24/12) We are doing some CRP haying. The first field has been in CRP for over 22 years. Primarily switchgrass. VERY rough with those big old clumps.
Second field is full of large (up to 30 inch) ant hills. Look like fire ants but according to the Ag dept at SDSU they are formica ants. This field is at 15 years of continuous CRP.
USDA ought to get educated and not allow rollover of CRP but a minimum of two year crop farming between contracts.
Good news is that we are getting about 4.5 tons of grass per acre mowing at 8 inch level. With a ten percent per acre penalty. IE if your annual is $100 you pay $10 per acre.
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Please excuse me if I sound kinda rude....but... What does this have to do with a tractor?

Not trying to be mean to you. Weren't you the one that posted about how 'Only tractor related questions' should be posted on this Thread?

I don't understand. Did you post a retraction that I missed?

I am confused.... :roll:
 
I was told thet if you take hay off the crp ground they dock your yearly payment.
 
When mine came out of CRP I was told no more mowing and I had to get rid of the fescue they required 10 years before. It would take 6 years to beak even and the trees would have been 10 foot tall. It s in corn.
 
A neighbor makes switchgrass hay. He may have cut his earlier in summer. He says his cows go for it before any of his other hay. That stuff should sale at a decent price unless it got stemmy.
 
Interesting. Around here (northwest PA) there is a guy that raises switchgrass and the deer won't even eat it. Cows got out and walked through a 30 acre patch of it and ate mixed grass on the other side. Bales made of switchgrass around here sit and rot as no one will buy them. He's tried to make everything from biofuel to pellets to burn in a stove from that crap an everything seems to be a flop. Now we've got fields of the stuff an can't get rid of it. He uses a TRACTOR to move the bales. there. Now this post is on topic. Kippster
 
(quoted from post at 08:32:46 08/24/12) Interesting. Around here (northwest PA) there is a guy that raises switchgrass and the deer won't even eat it. Cows got out and walked through a 30 acre patch of it and ate mixed grass on the other side. Bales made of switchgrass around here sit and rot as no one will buy them. He's tried to make everything from biofuel to pellets to burn in a stove from that crap an everything seems to be a flop. Now we've got fields of the stuff an can't get rid of it. He uses a TRACTOR to move the bales. there. Now this post is on topic. Kippster
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He grows all sorts of weeds, makes good money at it too. The switchgrass has to be his biggest flop. A few years back they came by trying to lease our ground for it. Didn't go for it as the technology he was banking on didn't exist yet, still doesn't.
 
How do you think we were mowing and baling that CRP? But I should have put it in the "using your tractor/crop talk forum. Mea Culpa.
 
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