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Not familiar with al of your weeds. But check out the label on Metcel (metsulfuron). Same thing as Escort or Cimmaron. I use it a good bit and it only costs me about $3-4/acre and it is effective on a broad range of weeds. I spray it at first fertilizer application in the spring and again at 3rd...

Not sure if this will work for you but I used to put out hay with a Tumblebug hay buggy. I took a piece of 3/4” round stock that is approximately 6” longer than the bale width and sharpened a point on one end. Then drilled a small hole about 1” from the pointed end. I then welded an old trailer...

I think there’s something to that. I know that dull lawnmower blades promote disease in centipede and St Augustine grass. If you look at the grass you can see the jagged tear rather than a clean cut.

Embrace the rain and do the best you can. Excessive rain still beats a drought hands down. I’ve got pastures that you could set on fire and burn. Love to see some mud about now.

Won’t hurt them. Quality will be poorer than last year but lots of times the cows actually prefer the older hay over new hay for some reason.

I’m in Middle Georgia. With temps in the high 90s we can bale the day after cutting most of the time. The key for us is that the hay needs “(2) 12:00 suns” Meaning that if we have sunshine and we can get it cut before lunch on day 1, tedder it that afternoon, then we can bale after lunch on day...

I guess it would depend on the unrolling setup. I use a Deweze Super Slicer II. I can unroll a bale in around 5 minutes into a wind row that’s approximately 2’ wide and 100-150’ yds long. Im feeding 100 mama cows + calves and it’s no problem. If they’re not starving then they just come to the...

I started unrolling in 2015. Can be a little more labor intensive but for the reasons mentioned above I don’t think I’ll ever go back to hay rings full time. About the only time I feed in rings now is Christmas Eve. I put out several rolls so I don’t have to feed on Christmas Day.

Hay looks rank. And really thick. Looks too thick for the rake to me. May remove the center wheel and help a little. Might open up rake at the back as well as long as your baler can still cover the width of the wind row. Take a good baler to ball that up. Should yield well. But that’s just from...

I’m farther south in GA so my input may or may not be relevant. I usually plant a mixture of cereal rye, oats, and ryegrass. The oats give me late fall grazing, the rye mid to late winter grazing, and the ryegrass early spring grazing. PROVIDED, I have adequate moisture to get it sowed in late...

I don’t own a horse. And have no aspirations to own one. Have had several in the past and they ate “regular hay”. I always thought “horse quality” meant that the hay was clean, fertilized, and most importantly short, with minimal stems and maximum leaf, to aid in digestion. But I could be...

In Georgia, Bahia. If it’s open enough, Bermuda will work here as well. Also no till winter annuals under them. I like to think of it as double cropping. Growing pines and pounds. It’s bad hot here. The pines use up a lot of moisture, but they provide shade during these 100 degree afternoons...

I know this for sure. “Can’t bale it if you don’t cut it!” Sometimes you just gotta go with it

3 pints is pretty hot. It’ll probably bounce back. Most fertilizer companies here won’t even sell 2-4D after May. It’s very volatile and highly destructive to cotton and watermelons, which we have a lot of. Ive seen it volatize and smoke a pretty large group of planted pines as well. Never seen...

Looks good. I’ve got 17 acres of millet that is doing great. And I’ve got 35 more 3 miles down the road that is almost completely cooked. Glad you’re getting the rain. It’s the main ingredient. I’m interested to see how it competes with the grass. Are you planning on haying or grazing?

Not Kenny but yes. Get it much deeper than 1/4” and your stand will suffer. It’s a pretty small seed. Rainfall will help if it’s a little too deep.

Planted some Memorial Day. Well prepared seedbed. Spread on top of ground with fertilizer just before 2 days of good rain. Turned the cows in on it this morning for the first time.

From UGA recommendations Growers can begin to graze pearl millet once the plants reach 20 to 24 inches, but regrowth rate and animal performance is best if a 9 to 12 inch stubble height is maintained. Pearl millet tillers well, making it very suitable for grazing.

It probably won’t need anymore. I can see where 25-30 units would give it a boost after grazing it down but the millet will probably reach maturity before it utilizes the extra N. Maybe someone smarter than me will elaborate further.

If the pocketbook will allow. It will make it jump again if you get the rain. But it also depends on how much you put at planting. It may not need much if any. 30 to 50 units should be plenty . I have grazed it shorter than 8”. I think no less than 6” is the recommendation but I’ll have to dig...