So you graze just after overseeding but then do not let cattle in to at least new grass in 8 inches high? From your experience what sort of time frame is that? I have brought a new farm and now looking at breaking up the huge paddocks that are already there to do rotational grazing
It can eat also the cows this kind of grass??? I'm just only a beginner of farming so I'm still doing research and get some ideas for my farming.im thankful if you can give some advice to educate me more to inhance my knowledge about farming and take care as well my goats and cows. Thanks and God bless 🙏🙏🙏 have a nice day
I learned in times past that new alfalfa seed cannot be sown among a standing crop of alfalfa as the two plants will kill each other. Alfalfa cannot be reseeded like grasses. If I am wrong on this, then something has changed in plant genetics since I grew up on a dairy farm decades ago.
Very good recommendations. But you didn't talk about the reverse. You didn't talk about alfalfa overseeding. One method to do this is with a pasture no-till drill. I oversaw a program that did this in West-Central Idaho for a Conservation District that used this method. Worked amazingly well where sufficient water was available for germination and establishment. Very good video!
Unless something has changed over the decades, you cannot overseed alfalfa with new alfalfa seed, as the new will kill the standing alfalfa and vice versa. That's what I learned in decades past, and I would advise to check that out before overseeding and ruining what you have. Alfalfa must be ploughed up, and a new crop sown, preferably under a cover crop such as wheat or oats. Rotating to corn or beans in between would assure the old alfalfa plants are killed off.
Contact your local feed store, and/or your local County Extension Agent, NRCS, University, you name it. Also find a nearby farmer whom has achieved what you're after and ask him or her.
No till drills are ideal for seeding nearly anything anywhere. I highly recommend using one, and they are often available at the local NRCS or Extension Agent office. Good luck.
Please introduce black soldier flies to your field. Just seeing all those flies biting the cattle reminds me of my poor boer goats balls. They were all bit up but now we have fish and chicken feed just by tossing dog or goat poop in the larvae bin.
