sizing tractors/implements

[slowzuki]

Here is some wild grass on an island almost 10 yrs ago, the seed part is higher than the roof of my samurai, the leaves are level with the top of the doors. This was taken in late July maybe?

So I guess that is about 4 ft high for the leaves? It was thick stuff, hard to push through.

 

[nobull1]

I rotate my cattle on a daily to weekly basis depending on the pasture they are on.In the early spring I try to plow up a few acres and plant annual rye, takes about 6 weeks to get going to be able to turn the cattle onto and by then the timothy is slowing a bit.The recovery is about 2 to 3 weeks if we get rain as opposed to timothy 4 to 5 average.In a ideal year I will make one or 2 passes with my disc harrow early in the spring and over seed with annual rye all pastures which helps the recovery.In my area I have to maximize my pasture as I don't have a lot.In the old days they thought they had a lot of cattle at a third of my rate.When doing this as I do 1 day too long can destroy a pasture for the year, but this is part of the fun

 

[HayDR]

Richard,
The Tennessee Valley averages 45" of rain a year and last year it was 65". Water is always the key. Come on down June 18 & 19 and see how we small guys round bale with 40 HP tractors. Southeastern Hay Demo Expo

 

[jimg]

After some research I found the following
http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/Pubs/ID/ID-155.html
I substituted weather data for my state and used that. While it wasnt in such a neat form as the work days data its doable w/ some work.