(Part One) Pasture Sage Grass or Broomsedge

In this video we talk about our battles with Sage Grass! It's in our way and we are determined to find out how to annihilate it! Join us in the fight.
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Our channel is similar to Sonne Farms, Farm & Hammer, Our Wyoming Life, Greg Judy and Living Traditions Homestead.
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[@bradfrizzell760]

I'm following you to see your results! I have a similar situation and have been bale grazing different areas to slowly wipe it out. This technique hasn't been working fast enough to suit me so I got my hands on a no till grass drill and planted 25ish acres this year to see if having competition from the grasses I want eliminate it faster.

[@doublelcattlefarming]

Thank you for your feedback! Always love hearing from fellow farmers😜 Our video next week will show the things we have tried and the results we have had. Although there is no silver bullet, we are pleasantly surprised with the results we have gotten. Please stay in touch and let us know how things are going with your ideas as well!

[@FuselierFarms]

Tighten up your cattle. Begin rotationally grazing, 1 acre per day per 80 cow units. Unroll good quality hay on top of the broomsedge grass. An earlier comment noted that just because the soil test said the soil is high in phosphorus it doesnt mean its available for the plants to use, they're 100% correct.

[@doublelcattlefarming]

Thanks so much for your feedback! We’ve been rotational grazing and have tightened up on our cattle as much as possible. If you wouldnt mind we would love for you to elaborate further on the phosphorus being not available for the plants to use?

[@FuselierFarms]

@Double L Cattle Farming & Hatchery a Haney soil test will give you the actual numbers of nitrogen, phosphorus and, potash in your soil. It will also tell you what is available for plants to use. The microbiology in the soil is what breaks down the bonds and makes the nutrients available for plantlife to take up and utilize. So if you feed the microbiology you'll make more nutrients available. Id highly recommend watching videos by Ray archuletta, david brandt , joel salatin greg judy, and gabe brown. They will give you a far better understanding than i can in a comment section. Greg judy directly addresses your issue in multiple videos. The other will give you vast understanding of microbiology. A lot of the videos are about row cropping and cover cropping, but the principles still remain the same.

[@doublelcattlefarming]

Thanks so much! We will take your advice and follow up with that.

[@RobHill-kw7gl]

stock density - animal impact - seems to work

[@tonysimons7218]

Use fire regularly

[@Kevstermartin]

Check your magnesium levels they can bind your calcium, phosphorus and potash even if your soil samples show high. Some limes are high in magnesium and can bind up other nutrients if magnesium is too high. If you have high mag and low calcium and need to improve your ph use gypsum instead of lime. If your ph is good but mag levels high use sulfur in with granular fertilizer, ammonium sulfate if you need nitrogen or a foliar spray to balance your mag levels. This can make the nutrients available for the other grasses to use and to reduce the sage grass.

[@doublelcattlefarming]

Thanks so much for your feedback! We have soil sample result I will look back at and let you know;)

[@johnlynn6291]

High phosphorus on a soil test doesn't necessarily mean that there's much phosphorus available to the plants.

[@doublelcattlefarming]

Could you explain that further?

[@johnlynn6291]

@@doublelcattlefarming the bond between calcium and phosphorus is strong. Most soils have calcium and phosphorus in high amounts. Soil microbes break this bond and make the minerals available to plants. In soils with less beneficial microbiology this breakdown is lacking. I always assumed that this is part of the reason why feeding hay improves a pasture. Not just depositing nutrients in the manure but also microbes which go to work in the soil to free up nutrients that are bound.

[@lifestream4191]

My 2 cents (about what it's worth) says you should roll out hay and mob graze in small paddocks everywhere you have sage grass. One problem with larger area grazing is that the cattle will eat the choicest areas first and leave the poorer areas alone. Making the best parts better (but over grazed) and the worst parts worse. Cutting hay off of the grazing pasture is depriving the soil of the additional carbon that would otherwise be trampled into the ground, then pooped and peed on. Build the soil with your cattle and carbon and the sage grass won't stand a chance. There are many other benefits besides increasing forage 2 to 3 times, like breaking the parasite cycles, water retention, drought resistance, etc... I suggest looking up "Carbon Cowboys" or Greg Judy.

[@doublelcattlefarming]

Wow! That’s some great advice! We have watched some of Greg Judy videos but will have to look up Carbon Cowboys for sure! We have been cutting our paddocks down more every year. We have noticed the way they eat the best forage first! We tried putting a lot of fertilizer on a test spot last year and the sage grass didn’t come back in that spot. Also we noticed where we stack the hay for storage, the sage grass disappears. Thanks so much for your response!

[@lifestream4191]

@@doublelcattlefarming sounds like you have a plan! Use the cattle to build your soil!

[@johnlynn6291]

Is it possible that compaction is the reason that some areas of your pasture have worse broomsedge than others?

[@doublelcattlefarming]

Thank you so much for you feed back! I’m assuming you mean not enough aeration and it’s definitely something we think and talk about regularly.

[@doublelcattlefarming]

(Part Two) Pasture Sage Grass or Broomsedge - Test Trials kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWLXn42Ojrach6M

[@shakerLT]

I've sub soiled some broomsage hillsides at our farm. And couldn't tell much difference at all. Unrolling hay on our farm has worked dramatically.

[@shakerLT]

I can say one thing for sure......Broom sage hates fertility. Especially in dense organic matter. Love y'all videos. I'm doing a lot of the same practices here at our farm in middle TN.

[@doublelcattlefarming]

Thank you so much!! We love hearing from other farmers!

[@alanwhitaker7919]

Sedge, not sage.