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. This one is telling me that I might want to consider grass/alfalfa mixture for hay ground instead of straight alfalfa.

It's kind of funny to me because i figured that out a few years ago. My father for years only grew straight alfalfa but I have been trying planting some grass with it and getting very good results. I now have as much hayground in mixtures as I do in straight alfalfa. I don't think I will convert any of the straight fields that are left to a mixture so i can keep some real good alfalfa stands but it sure appears to be working great.

One other thing I have noted as a benefit of doing this is that if you plant an aggressive spring type grass, it also outgrows a lot of the weeds and keeps them suppressed for you. The disadvantage of having a hard time selling the hay doesn't apply to me. Unless I was willing to spend a lot of money improving the roads, I can't get trucks into my hayfields to sell hay so I never do. So, not a problem. Live and learn you know. It's funny when i learn things ahead of the "experts" though.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr