Originally Posted by Turkey_neck
The top three pics are of my bottom field which always does the best. It has good soil for the most part. We bush hogged it spread seed then went over it one time with the disc. There is still a lot of thatch on top in most of the field except where it was thin. The last pic is my top field that is really rocky with poor soil and we just seeded it then ran over it one time with the disc. I have a lot of seed coming up and plan on fertilizing this weekend with rain back in the forecast next week. I'm looking forward to the results this year.


That looks really nice Turkey....That's a really nice crop of biomass you produced in that first pic. I think you'll appreciate having that hay layer on top of the soil as our temps keep getting hotter. One day last summer I checked the soil temps each hour for one area of my field that was covered and one area that had bare soil. I then compared them on a graph and the difference was pretty substantial. Ideal growing temps for most plants are in the low 70's...Once you start climbing higher and higher then plant growth is effected. If it gets hot enough then the plant will just shut down.

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Last edited by CNC; 05/22/15 08:52 AM.

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