Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: grass

  • 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…

  • Tall Grass

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cow11042007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cow11042007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A cow grazing out in a field of hay that i let go to seed this year. I see more and more cows out in the field all the time now that other grass is running out. I'm hoping by…

  • Tall

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/tall10082007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/tall10082007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The grass was so tall here that it almost looked like these were calves grazing, but that would be a wrong answer. These are cows with grass up to and over their backs. Taken 10/8/2007.</center>

  • Grass

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/grazing09122007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/grazing09122007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Some fine grazing here. The funny thing is they are just moving through this pasture on the way home for shipping. I think I will put the cows back out here after shipping to graze this off. It's nice to…

  • Different Year

    It's amazing what difference a year makes. Last year was fairly dry but I felt there was a decent amount of grass. The cows were really restless though. I would put them in a pasture and they would walk from one end to another and back again. They never seemed to settle down. Last year…

  • Timing

    Timing seems to be everything in life but sometimes you can't take the credit for it. It finally got dry enough that I was able to get all my renovating and farming done. I finished putting the seed in the ground on Wednesday afternoon and finish up the farming I was really pushing on. Guess…