Thank you so much for posting about this in such detail. It isn’t easy being new to pasture management! Great information.

@DowdleFamilyFarms

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! I hope it helped. What livestock are you including in your pastures?

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.

@DowdleFamilyFarms

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Where is your ranch located? Do you have any idea what you can use?

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.

@DowdleFamilyFarms

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Clovers can make a huge difference.

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.

@DowdleFamilyFarms

10 ай бұрын

Planted red river crabgrass this year, though not in the fescue pasture! Hope to do a video on it soon!

@certifiedhoarder

10 ай бұрын

@@DowdleFamilyFarms lookin forward to your results

@DowdleFamilyFarms

10 ай бұрын

Just put cows on the RR crabgrass. They are loving it, though there's a lot of stuff in there for them to graze.

@certifiedhoarder

10 ай бұрын

@@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.

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

@DowdleFamilyFarms

Жыл бұрын

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.

what grass mix is best for horses?

@DowdleFamilyFarms

3 ай бұрын

I'm not sure. I don't have horses.

Silvo pasture and tree hay?

@DowdleFamilyFarms

6 ай бұрын

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?

@DowdleFamilyFarms

2 ай бұрын

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.

@DowdleFamilyFarms

2 ай бұрын

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.