Creek farms - 6/19/2017 09:01 I have been figuring up herbicide cost in roundup resistant weed days. Where we farm alfalfa has 3-4 ton dryland potential. I have enough hay equipment to sustain my own cattle, but would hire swathing still. If I put a alfalfa, wheat, dc milo/beans + grazing of crops and residue by my cows and brought in animals rotation into affect do you think the rotation could help control pigweeds, reduce input and equipment costs, free up time for family life? Also dairy hay would be nice, but not required due to feedlots of all sizes within an hour of me. Agree with the two previous replies. Alfalfa always improves the yields of grain crops that follow it. You'll need less fertilizer, for sure. I'm not sure yet what the effect is on Palmer pigwd populations of having alfalfa. A person would think it would help, but I haven't observed this yet. As to grazing of crop residue, that is usually perilous, but you don't provide your location or how level the land is, so I can't say more. | 
Changing rotation questions. Mhagney?
