Posted by kyhayman on January 23, 2010 at 21:35:55 from (75.104.128.55):
In Reply to: buildin pasture posted by chrisinsoky on January 23, 2010 at 20:04:42:
I dont know anything that will grow on both frozen ground and in the heat of summer. A true mixture of perennials wont help much either as you only net a half stand of each.
With that said, a grazing type alfalfa overseeded in the fall with rye will come as close as you can to year round green grazing. The drawbacks are you will get a lot of damage to the alfalfa crowns in the mud like we've got now and the rye has to be planted every year.
If you can get several fields to rotate your total overall yield will be higher and costs lower. For spring and fall its hard to beat a cool season grass mix of fescue, bluegrass, orchard grass, and ladino clover. In the dead of summer grazing alfalfa or eastern gamma grass, and then an annual grain crop like rye, grazing corn, etc. UK did some plot work last year on using corn for grazing. One guy here ran around 50 cow calf pairs on on 20 acres of corn using portable electric fencing last winter. Ended up feeding no hay.
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