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Fontanelle, IA | Your orchard grass is the “equivalent” grass as corn is - only orchard grass is a perennial whereby corn is not.
If you don’t get nitrogen on a grass, then you don’t grow biomass. Biomass is what the cows harvest.
My guess is that the 2024 thatch is insulating the ground and slowing warmup of soil which by default slows the early grasses growth. You could mob graze the stockpiled thatch off so that you minimize the time the cows are stomping and grubbing on the new growth (1/2 day-1 day and then move). Or, just spread >50-60 # N and be ready with cows to start their paddock moves.
Nothing is more expensive in a cow feed budget than a low fertilizer program on an improved grass pasture. Buy the pounds to get the tons. | |
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Fertilizing Rented Pasture
