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Denny
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
TXTibbs wrote:
so um manitoba...you don't know what your main grass is up there where you live? Can you ask someone please...i'm curious.....i'd assume its western wheatgrass but not sure...never been to manitoba.



Heck I bale alot of grass I have no Idea what it is and dont really care if it wont make a turd it will push one.....
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Kato
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
We've got a huge variety of native grasses. It depends where you are in Manitoba. In the very southwestern corner it was originally short grass prairie. Farther east it was originally long grass prairie.

We were on a grazing tour last week, and tromped around in some native pastures. All of the pastures were made up of dozens of varieties, with no single one dominating.

Manitoba_Rancher, take a close up picture of some, and we can have a contest of Name That Grass! Very Happy
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HAY MAKER
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kato wrote:
We've got a huge variety of native grasses. It depends where you are in Manitoba. In the very southwestern corner it was originally short grass prairie. Farther east it was originally long grass prairie.

We were on a grazing tour last week, and tromped around in some native pastures. All of the pastures were made up of dozens of varieties, with no single one dominating.

Manitoba_Rancher, take a close up picture of some, and we can have a contest of Name That Grass! Very Happy


Kato ,you sure get around up there,and she had two.MR,glad to see you are making progress,be cold before we know it................good luck
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HAY MAKER
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Manitoba_Rancher wrote:
TX- I havent a damn clue what kind of grass it is. Its not a tame variety so I m not sure. Its got a mix of wild clover and alfalfa in it tooo. Smells really good when its baled.



MR,You are mighty lucky,no plowing, no planting,no fertilizing,hell I dont even know what it is,just jump in my tractor cut,rake,& bale. Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy ...........good luck PS you wont do anything like that around here.
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Manitoba_Rancher
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Haymaker,

I run a large grain farm as well as ranching. And I have not followed in the footsteps of others around here with there no-till practices. I still like to seed into a nice black seedbed. So I see my share of tillage and fertilizing. But no plowing, soil around here wont hack that.
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Faster horses
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I found your post intersting, MR. We don't know much about farming, but we need to do some. Would you elaborate a bit on why your soil won't hack plowing?

Just trying to learn something here~and thanks!
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Denny
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Faster horses wrote:
I found your post intersting, MR. We don't know much about farming, but we need to do some. Would you elaborate a bit on why your soil won't hack plowing?

Just trying to learn something here~and thanks!


Around here in the sand if you plow to deep you can brake the hardpan then the water just runs through most guys just disc the top 6 to 8 inches.

In the clay I just disc that also to many rocks if you start digging.
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nr
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Manitoba_Rancher wrote:
Haymaker,

I run a large grain farm as well as ranching. And I have not followed in the footsteps of others around here with there no-till practices. I still like to seed into a nice black seedbed. .


A few farms around us use no-till and think they produce equally well as tilled. What is your conception? Or is it...simply artistic? Very Happy
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Cal
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Even had water coming in the cab from the condensor.


Your overflow hose must be plugged up, and maybe full of dirt and crap in the top of the cab, too. That shouldn't happen.
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Manitoba_Rancher
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The hose was actuallly plugged.


The reason I dont like no-till is due to the fact of the amount of chemical and herbicides you have to use to control weeds that a little tillage will control. Our soil up here is a real heavy clay loam with a few inches of black dirt on top so we cant plow. It would roll too much clay up. We can grow excellent crops by tilling the top few inches. Its real good soil and not overly priced either. A 1/4 section sells for $60,000!!!
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HAY MAKER
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Manitoba_Rancher wrote:
The hose was actuallly plugged.


The reason I dont like no-till is due to the fact of the amount of chemical and herbicides you have to use to control weeds that a little tillage will control. Our soil up here is a real heavy clay loam with a few inches of black dirt on top so we cant plow. It would roll too much clay up. We can grow excellent crops by tilling the top few inches. Its real good soil and not overly priced either. A 1/4 section sells for $60,000!!!


That is why I like Canada,land around here is way to over priced,way to much development,and pretty much like that all over TX,you men are very lucky you have land prices like that.You can pencil that and keep on ranching................good luckPS what would you think about A 1/4 section around here selling for $960,000 ?
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nr
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
" Our soil up here is a real heavy clay loam with a few inches of black dirt on top"

Next time you have your camera out how 'bout some pictures of your black soil? All we have is mostly clay because back in the 1700's all the woods were chopped down for farming and the good soil washed down the drain leaving us with the clay. Mad
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