Farming Farmallers and New Pastures

Posted by Michael Soldan on January 05, 2002 at 06:20:57 from (216.46.130.58):

Since I have included Charlais heifers to my collection of Farmalls I am going to need pasture in the next year. Our farm is a cash crop operation..so I need about 10 acres seeded down. The land is plowed.What makes the best pasture\hay combination and when should the seeding down take place? I was considering Timothy, although I have seen some wonderfull mixed hay combinations work. Interestingly enough I have done every task on a farm that one could think of in my 54 years but I have never set up new pasture. I've broke new land with a breaking plow, dug ditches,sowed, reaped ,built , tore down..but this has never come up before. My son in law talked me into having a few calves about 5 years ago and then a few became more.This is a hobby,only 8 Charlais heifers but they are being kept for cows as their breeding is evident. My friends gave me their corn screenings from the dryer ( about 6 tonnes) and a neighbour gives me a field of hay every year(8 acres) that no one in the area seems to want. Its amazing how much you can make on a calf when you have no inputs!!!..anyway I digress. This is clay loam in southern Ontario. Thanks fellow farmers and fellow Farmallers for any suggestions. Incidentally , during a recent cold and snowy day I had to dig out the snow blower from the shed. My H was in the way and it went through my mind that It probably wouldn't start since it had been sitting there since September...3rpms on the starter and it was purring..what a machine to start ..Thanks again MIke in Exeter Ontario

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