Been scouting some fields

SVcummins · Apr 5, 2019

The alfalfa I dormant seeded last December is coming out of the ground millions of little plants are everywhere

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grandpa Love · Apr 6, 2019

That's funny to see you planting in snow!

HuskerLyn · Apr 6, 2019

My grandpa would seed oats into last snow of the year and probably get almost as good of a stand as today?s drills

2underage · Apr 6, 2019

From the looks of those cracks I would say that tou need rain. I can not guess where that field is located.

Adirondack case guy · Apr 6, 2019

What happens to those tiny sprouts when you get a hard frost after they have emerged like that???
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SVcummins · Apr 6, 2019

We had 5 feet of snow over the winter the ground just cracks like that around here in the spring

SVcummins · Apr 6, 2019

The same thing that happens when you get a hard frost the end of May or June when the alfalfa just has sprouted but If you wait until it?s dry enough to drill in the spring there usually isn?t enough moisture to keep the plant growing the same reason we plant fall wheat because in the spring the fall planted crop is two months ahead of a spring planted crop

SVcummins · Apr 7, 2019

Dormant or frost seeding is an excellent way to do things but the weather has to cooperate a little bit but in exceptionally dry areas with no irrigation t?s no more of a gamble to do it this way than it is to spring seed a crop and pray for rain

SVcummins · Apr 7, 2019

If you check out my channel you can see we do it quite a bit

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