Grass Experiment #1

If you look closely on picture #2, you can see the rye grass coming up. It’s June 1^st 2019 and normally we are cutting 1^st crop at this time. We had initially decided to plant corn on this field, the manure was already applied at 8,000 gal/acre. But we changed our mind and decided to plant the rye grass.

You can tell by picture #3 that what is left of the alfalfa does not like water. The geese are loving it. The center pivot is useless, but the rye grass is coming.

After harvesting the first crop off this field, Haymaker Special fertilizer was applied (300 lb./acre of Haymaker Special /3N – 0P – 50Potash -3.5Sulfur – .35Boron).

On the left is field that was reseeded, compared to the right which was not reseeded in rye grass. The rye grass on the left, the entire field of 140acres yielded approximately 3.5 ton/acre at about 50 % moisture – according to the harvest lab on our chopper.

Picture#6 – Equipment used for planting rye grass.

Picture #7

July 6^th 2019. This is the 2^nd cutting that yielded 3.5 ton. I will show all of the yields on the forage analysis later. But there was obviously some sort of synergy going on here because it no longer looks like a winterkill field.

Manure was applied after the 2^nd cutting at 5,000 gal/acre.

After the 3^rd crop was taken off we applied the last round of Haymaker Special fertilizer.

4^th Crop – You can see that the grass is more dominate as the year progresses.

This is the 5^th crop, we harvested it in the beginning of November 2019.