Drilling Cover Crop For Hay | Forage Rye

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[@bobpaterson1845]

Great video 👍 lookin forward to the next installment 💪💪

[@tomcampbell815]

Glad to see you are using cover crops! You won't regret the benefits it will have for your soil!

[@louisnemick1939]

Another great video Sir.

[@frankscreekoutdoors4805]

Great drone footage! I enjoy the heck out of your videos!

[@JMfarmandcattle]

Thank you!

[@renamurman7564]

Good job again, Jesse! Gr’ma M.

[@mathiggins4264]

Looks like fun be safe out there buddy see you next time

[@JMfarmandcattle]

Thanks!

[@mathiggins4264]

Indeed buddy

[@floydfarms1578]

Just ordered our winter mix; rye, oats, ryegrass, and crimson clover. I’ll be tilling up an 8 acre field due to hog damage and doing pure stand at 135 lbs to the acre. Same mix no-tilled into Bermuda grass pasture on another 47 acres also. Sure makes great first cut hay, I get 1/2 to 2/3s of our hay cut in the spring now when we have plenty of rain. Way less stress over lack of summer rain now.

[@JMfarmandcattle]

Does it come up good in the pasture? I've thought of doing that but figured the grass would kill it off

[@floydfarms1578]

JM Farm & Cattle it isn’t as good as a prepared field, but definitely worth it. I’ve noticed much less weed pressure come spring time so that’s a side benefit as well. Also it seems to recycle nutrients and make my warm season grasses perform better once they do come in even though it does delay them a little bit due to overlap of growing times. Here in Texas I have coastal Bermudagrass which is a perennial grass and the drill on 7.5” spacing cuts the runners and causes it to thicken the stand over time so that’s another benefit. I will say that you’ll want to fertilize it some, whether that’s commercial fertilizer or spreading manure or just letting them graze a section and then putting out hay for extra manure and then moving to the next section. But the fertilizer isn’t a loss because it gets recycled right on into spring and summer by having year round growing plants. We’ve been doing it since 2015 and I wouldn’t go back for all these reasons and the early hay I mentioned before. I’m hoping to get to where I don’t even need hay eventually.

[@floydfarms1578]

JM Farm & Cattle I would definitely recommend a legume of some kind as this is great feed value, but also gives free nitrogen which would eventually be used by your pastures during summer time so you get money back that way too.

[@danrose3233]

Do you find it difficult to get the first (early) cut with the rain and cooler weather cured to bale?

[@floydfarms1578]

Dan Rose not really, but we don’t try to cut until late April to mid May. We let the cows keep up with it till then. I could see it being a problem some years, but for the last 5 no problem.

[@iowANFarmer]

Watching your video I can feel each one of those ridges you drive over. Something I just don’t see around here!

[@JMfarmandcattle]

I wish we had less of them! It's not something you do on a full stomach lol

[@danrose3233]

@@JMfarmandcattle Why plant at an angle to the previous crop?

[@deerefredj5975]

Love your videos and farming operation ,.....just aim at 2 videos a week...dont kill yourself Jess :)

[@JMfarmandcattle]

Thanks!! I think I can manage that!

[@robertpayne2717]

On planting grains either for grain or forage you need to consider at least 100 units of phosphorous per acre preplant and nitrogen as needed for spring topdress.. i hate the idea of planting small grains and treating them as a stepchild...to get the best results treat those crops like a high value cash crop Map is a good fall preplant fertilizer for small grain crops....helps with tillering....just a thought from an old arkansas farm boy

[@robertnelson5064]

Great video, be safe out there. Good luck with your cover crop. Like your videos.

[@davesisco4637]

Did you ever consider maybe some oats , wheat and some brassicas of choice , even some vetch and winter peas ? Give them a chance you might have some winter grazing and save on the hay some . Lots of info on that kinda stuff on here . I’ve done some of it with really good results but I’m a little more south . KY

[@JMfarmandcattle]

It's all kind of new to me so I'm pretty open to anything.

[@hfff1]

Nice drone prospective! How about some hay business content?

[@JMfarmandcattle]

Got some in the makings! Harder to fly without GPS haha!

[@jwhitley101whitleyfarms9]

50lb is good enough because we have had the dial get loose in the middle of a field it jumped up to wide open 85lbs and there was no gain where it opened up and cost us more money the yield in bales was the same

[@JMfarmandcattle]

I've wondered that. Cheapest way is often just as good

[@lovejcdc]

Was that last field you did in soybeans beforehand? Also what model of JD is that you were using? But that was a great video and great drone footage too. I always really enjoy watching your videos. You remind me of my younger years and ranching. We weren't farmers by any means lol but we did put up plenty of hay every year. Only we did it the old fashioned way lol I used a 30ft hydraulic dump rake to windrow the hay. My uncle uses his sickle mower and then once it's all raked we would put it up in loose haystack form. It's almost a lost art but I can personally attest that a loose haystack can last well over 20+ years if you want it to. Anyway stay healthy brother

[@JMfarmandcattle]

Yes it was soybeans before and corn the year before that. We try to do a 4 year rotation corn to beans. It's two 515 drills on a JD 30 cart. Pulled by a 8295r tractor

[@lovejcdc]

@@JMfarmandcattle oh ok cool deal. I was thinking it looked like soybeans chaff. I've seen you in that tractor a lot in your videos. I just couldn't remember what model it was. Well I really hope that seed comes in thick and healthy.

[@BWYinYang]

Jess, promote your lovely wife as video editor 🤞

[@JMfarmandcattle]

I'm trying she's being stubborn haha