Determining Seeding Rates in Diverse Cover Crops for Grazing and Soil Health
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2024
- How do you formulate your own cover crop mixes and calculate the seeding rates for cover crop mixes? Diverse cover crop mixes are important for soil heath, grazing, and the health and nutrition of our livestock. Diverse mixes of sorghum sudan grass, buckwheat, chicory, soybeans, cowpeas, clovers, and other plants are hard to calculate when you formulate your own mixes.
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7:54 Good to know. I was gonna not plant buckwheat at all because I figured I could swap it out with vetch to get better nitrogen and phosphorus fixing, but if I want to graze pigs on pasture this summer I'll add buckwheat for their sake.
Great video; seeding rates for cover crops have been on my mind. I'm thinking of planting millet rather than sorghum for the biomass producer cos I won't have time this year to be cognitive of sorghum's prussic acid phases.
I'll use Austrian winter peas instead of cowpeas.
Chicory is EXPENSIVE in my area. I wanted to try that and phacelia, but I'll wait until next year.
Another good detailed information guide. You are helping me make pasture decisions
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate it.
Keep these videos coming, thoroughly enjoy.
Thanks, will do!
I enjoy your discussion about balancing the ratio according to seeding rates.
Consider whether it may help to balance the rate according to nutritional needs of the animal? Might be an interesting comparison.
That was the reason for the different seeding rates. Pigs need more nutrition than cows.
I'm raising pigs on wooded pasture with a mix of soft and hard woods, resulting in heavy shade. Would really love to be able add some extra forage for them. I'm in a similar climate to you. Have any suggestions?
Sounds great, but our forest canopy is so dense that we dont get much stuff growing in there.
@@DowdleFamilyFarms that's what I was afraid of. Thanks for the quick reply!
I understand that you do not use any chemical fertilizer ? only manure left by pigs and cows ?
Rarely, we will use chemical fertilizer if we have never grown cover crops before. If we do use them, its at about 5 pounds of nitrogen per acre or less so it does not interfere with soil life. But this is very rare. In the last 4 years, we may have used 200 pounds of fertilizer total on 300 acres.
@@DowdleFamilyFarms what fertilizer? Urea ?
Usually it’s a combination of urea and ammonium sulfate I think. But yes basically urea. But at incredibly low rates the first time we plant in a field. After that they don’t usually need it. We could get by without it truthfully.