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| Started renting a good size piece of ground last fall. Its in a good location for me so I used it to calve on, and still have some leftover pairs there now.
Until recently the piece was just left grown up, not farmed at all. New owner cleared a bunch of trees, and made the land more usable. Long story short, I'm working on a long term deal to buy this farm and eventually build on.
In the short term, I am undecided what is best for this ground. My long term plan is grazing, but right now I don't have enough cows to fill this pasture and my other pastures. It is "grass" now (very weedy) but the ground is pretty rough (ruts, rocks, branches, stumps, roots) from what was bulldozed or shredded with a forestry mulcher and left behind. Would it be best to continue cleaning up the fields, plow up and plant grass, or plow up and farm for a rotation of corn & beans, smooth out and then back to grass or just keep it grass and work to clean up as is. Would like this to be a smooth field that could be grazed and/or hayed down the road, just not sure what the best way to get there is. | |
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New Lease - What to Do!?
