Spring Buds

[CrealCritter]

Post pictures of spring here.

 

[CrealCritter]

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Hinotori]

I can post pictures of rain

 

[flowerbug]

not even close here yet. 19F outside now with windchill down to about 0F. next five nights even colder likely...

 

[CrealCritter]

I can post pictures of rain

How about mud (no shortage here)

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[flowerbug]

short of emergencies it is really not a good idea to tractor on muddy pasture - it compacts so much it takes a long time to recover.

 

[FarmerJamie]

short of emergencies it is really not a good idea to tractor on muddy pasture - it compacts so much it takes a long time to recover.

Ya gotta get the hay to the beasties. You need to place the bales far away from the fences and buildings or you get even worse issues damaging those structures. You minimize the amount of ground to tear up. Ground like that is just part of normal animal maintenance, just part of the process.

 

[CrealCritter]

short of emergencies it is really not a good idea to tractor on muddy pasture - it compacts so much it takes a long time to recover.

Well if I didn't feed the cattle hay, it would most likely result in a emergency. I'm going to gravel that area behind the barn this summer anyways. So I'm not really concerned about it.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[flowerbug]

if you are having to drive across wet and muddy pasture to set bales it's doing more damage to that field than you think (because it also means you have cattle on that same field doing the same sort of compaction).

you can probably get things set up to get the cattle to move to where the bales can be easily set and that would not mean driving acoss a wet and muddy pasture. i'm pretty sure that if you have a big round of hay and call the moomoos they'll come...

maybe then you would not need to put gravel over what used to grow green things that animals could eat because you no longer have to drive there? which pretty much means no longer reducing the capacity of your farm...

but i'm just spitballing here. perhaps it's a good idea to rethink it and see if you can do it a different way?

 

[Mini Horses]

I'm pretty sure he's thought it out. Often the best place for the hay is not best place to get to it's something every livestock farmer faces. Generally there's a "sacrifice" area to save the rest.