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cjunrau

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So someone complained about wild mustard. I have started baling it up wet for silage bales. Very high protein feed and cows and sheep love it. Why fight nature, just use it instead.
 
On certain years,and there is no reason for it,,but it will grow thick and tall for that one year around here. I have mowed it and it will make the tractor Yellow from all the pollen,,I never though about it being good for feed..
 
Seems like that stuff used to flourish in new seedings. Some got to believing it was mixed with the alfalfa seed. I've always wondered if it might be a little bitter? Putting it up high moisture might get past that. If there's any in the pastures,the cows tend to eat around it.
 
We get it the year after a new seeding often. Doesn?t stay long. I presume the seeds are in the soil waiting for the right conditions?
 
I'd think that would be the case before it would be a purity problem in the seed. Hope so anyway.
 
Can't speak for anybody else,but I'm taking about the short stuff that grows like clover or alfalfa.
 
I remember as a kid growing up in northern Minnesota that farmers (in the sixties the farms were much smaller) paying me and others to go out into their fields and pick the whole plant just to get rid of it. Guess at least it was a way to make some money and stay out of trouble.
 
Mustard and canola look very much alike to me at the growth stage were you would be cutting hay. As rrlund had stated it always seems to thrive in new seeding. Because canola seed is darn small, I was always suspicious that some canola seed gets mixed by accident into hayseed. So is it Mustard, or is it actually Canola?
 
Back in the sixties Dad had a new seeding of alfalfa that came in really heavy with mustard. He mowed it for hay, but then we got a week of cold rainy weather. That stuff started to spoil, and the whole neighborhood stunk like rotting cabbage.
 
I'm pretty sure that is the case we used to have it come up in old corn fields every Spring,we cut the salad to eat.Gotta know which to get some of it is too strong.
 
I believe canola / rape is a type or hybrid of mustard. Bred specifically for oil cooking or otherwise.

We would have the heavy Wild mustard grow in our clay loam fields when I was a kid in the late 70s / 80s.

But the last 10-15 years whenever we have open soil the first thing that germinates is what I would call the hybrid. It is strange where it would come from in such large numbers.
 
We have had a real problem with yellow rocket in new stands of alfalfa- it is like mustard, very yellow flowers, but there is a huge tuber-type root. Fortunately, it far outpaces the alfalfa growth, and stands a couple of feet taller by the time of first cutting. We use a weed wiper and 50/50 Roundup to wipe the growth before cutting, That seems to kill off 99% of it. Then I hand-pull the rest and feed the cows. This has led to spreading it into the vineyard via manure, which is where we first discovered the root. They are edible, and actually quite tasty.
https://www.ediblewildfood.com/yellow-rocket.aspx
 
I dont have any of that around here but the goldenrod will take over a field in a wet spring.
 
I pull it up in spring when it turns yellow. Have managed to keep it under control by hand. I have seen alfalfa fields thick with it. It spreads in hay for sure.
 
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