Ideas on what to do with 20 acres

Posted by Nathan in Texas on May 05, 2005 at 09:42:02 from (216.167.183.158):

Well, Now that I have a tractor (1945 M with 3 pt) I am trying to figure out what I should do with it. I have 42 acres and out of that 18 acres are in CRP. That leaves me with about 20 acres of useable land that I can work with.

I got a 6' rotary mower and mowed down about 15 years of growth including a lot of yucca and cactus and some small mesquite trees. I've bladed my 1/2 mile driveway smooth and now the tractor just sits there and pleads to be used.

I looked at buying some haying equipment but that just didn't make sense for the amount of land I have left. It is unirrigated and we average about 17 inches of rain here. I've thought about getting a disk and grain drill and using it to overseed the grass and improve it for when I hire someone to come and hay it. Thought about a spreader to put down fertilizer on it. Just really haven't come up with any good options on what to do with it. Right now it is in native grasses and just sits there. I had it hayed about 5 years ago and it wasn't very good because of the cactus and stuff in it. I'm hoping that since I mowed all that down it should be better this year.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks, Nathan

Follow Ups:

• Re: Ideas on what to do with 20 acres Doug Rogers 13:18:38 05/05/05 (1)
  • Re: Ideas on what to do with 20 acres txgrn 05:41:14 05/06/05 (0)
• Re: Ideas on what to do with 20 acres old 09:53:21 05/05/05 (5)
  • Re: Ideas on what to do with 20 acres Nathan in Texas 10:00:51 05/05/05 (4)
    • Re: Ideas on what to do with 20 acres Roger in St.Louis 12:45:53 05/05/05 (2)
      • Re: Ideas on what to do with 20 acres Txsprigger 13:14:55 05/05/05 (0)
      • Re: Ideas on what to do with 20 acres Nathan in Texas 13:07:33 05/05/05 (0)
    • Re: Ideas on what to do with 20 acres old 10:09:47 05/05/05 (0)

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