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We try not to feed bales on any alfalfa or grass fields. It makes a helluva mess come springtime.

And if you've ever ran a swather over a field full of 2-3 month old turds, it sucks!

Always talked about getting a heavy harrow but damn they are expensive.

I can see why you'd want to harrow a high yielding pasture with lots of turds getting dropped per square acre.


Just some more random chit here now.

In the 'winter time' and depending on the snow we start feeding cows in December and feed them literally everyday until May. Around 5 months straight. As you can imagine there is a lot of poopage.

But we have an area with that gets tilled up every year(hay barley) and some of that is sandy ground. Rough guess maybe 20-30 acres. Fed a BUNCH of stuff on that spot in an ongoing effort to build up the ground and improve productivity.

Key is to not over do it and make the residue too thick. Too thick and you'll plug up the toolbar when you go to pre-work in front of the drill. Speaking of toolbars we have a 1/2 way wore out set of Degelmans on a JD toolbar.



The heavy build-up area.

Haven't fed here in a couple weeks. Not since it's thawed out anyway. When it's frozen and fresh snow it works great to use the same feed spot every day. Abandon ship when it gets muddy!

We have thinned the stand feeding on hay ground.

When I had cattle, I made a drag out of 7 semi-truck tires and a 2" pipe, for breaking up cow piles. Did it every spring. Didn't cost anything and worked really good.

You guys ever consider toilet training your cows?

Diapers.

We wait till it just a bit drier than the ground in that first photo and then run the four gang with wings over it and it breaks them up pretty well. We fed on one alfalfa field this year since we are going to plow it up when it dries out and I think it would be better to harrow it and then plow it just to get the pies broken up and spread out a bit.