How to Improve Pasture Productivity Easily: Overseeding the Red Field
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2023
- In this video we show you how to improve pasture productivity with minimal costs to help eliminate the need for fertilizes and herbicides. We overseeded our fescue pasture with clover and chicory, increasing its productivity and profitablity using regenerative farming techniques.
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Thank you so much for posting about this in such detail. It isn’t easy being new to pasture management! Great information.
You are so welcome! I hope it helped. What livestock are you including in your pastures?
Great commentary on the benefits of clover. You gave me the nudge I needed; I just tracked down a source and bought some Durana clover seed to overseed our pastures.
Glad it was helpful! Clovers can make a huge difference.
Thank you. Very good and informative. This will help me this year as I am in need of doing this very thing on my small ranch.
Glad it was helpful! Where is your ranch located? Do you have any idea what you can use?
Nice work on diluting that k31.
I encourage you to experiment with red river crabgrass in your fescue patch to really make it an all season pasture. It pairs very well and is super palatable in its season.
Planted red river crabgrass this year, though not in the fescue pasture! Hope to do a video on it soon!
@@DowdleFamilyFarms lookin forward to your results
Just put cows on the RR crabgrass. They are loving it, though there's a lot of stuff in there for them to graze.
@@DowdleFamilyFarms friend of mine is a really knowledgeable and successful small dairy and egg farmer in VA who swears by the crab grass. I believe its his primary hot season forage for the milk and meat cattle. he sells big dollar boutique raw milk to the richmond richies under his own label. Must be a good grass.
Would adding these plants to pasture benefit chickens?
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Hey Rob, I'm curious if you notice how it affects deer visiting the field. We are trying to cheaply attract and hold them on our property. Just wondering if some of these practices might translate to our purposes.
Thanks Andrew
Hey Andrew! Thanks for watching. The deer eat all of the cover crops we grow. A lot of the Durana clover seed is actually sold for deer plots. The deer tend to prefer crops other than the fescue in the permanent pasture shown in this videos, but they love the annual cover crops.
Silvo pasture and tree hay?
Silvo pasturesure, but tree hay is a lot of work with little to show for it.
Why not to let the grass go to seed?
We let the grass go to seed occasionally, but we cows grazing the seed heads creates problems with the cattle. There's a symbiotic relationship with tall fescue and an endophyte that makes it drought and disease resistant. However, that endophyte can have deleterious effects on livestock. The endophyte is concentrated in the youngest growth (closer to the ground) and in the seed heads.
HI ROB, unfortunately, learnt nothing, good articulate speaker , the original performance of cattle must have been poor.
I guess it depends on what you know or don’t know. If you have a monoculture tall fescue pasture then the cattle performance will be poor compared to a diverse pasture.
what grass mix is best for horses?
I'm not sure. I don't have horses.
Would adding these plants to pasture benefit chickens?
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