Category: alfalfa
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FIgured It Out
I always love when i read articles that tell me how to do things in the ranch business that I have all ready figured out. <a href="http://beefmagazine.com/cowcalfweekly/consider-grass-alfalfa-mixture/">This one</a> is telling me that I might want to consider grass/alfalfa mixture for hay ground instead of straight alfalfa. <br />n<br />nIt's kind of funny to me because…
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Hay
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/bales07022007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/bales07022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I finished baling the last of the alfalfa on the Sarpy side yesterday. Fifteen hundred and thirty four bales of hay. Just over 2 ton to the acre. I'm very happy about that. You can't really see it all well…
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Changes
It's amazing the difference a year can make. Last year I would have given anything to get some rain. This year I am to the point I will give anything to get it to quit raining. It has rained the last 3 days here and we have gotten over 4 inches of rain. Total in…
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Roundup Ready Alfalfa
Now that I have the Internet back I see a group of organizations want to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/21/news/state/20-alfalfa.txt">ban the use and sale of all seeds and hay</a> from Roundup Ready alfalfa. They claim that the <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> did not do an EIS as…
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Hay
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/hay12192006?full=1'><img width='456' height='640' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/hay12192006.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Looking down the top of one of the loads of hay we feed on a daily basis. This is year old hay that is still in little squares. Most of the newer stuff is in the big bales but we…