[Homestead] Establishing pasture

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Sun May 4 09:12:44 EDT 2008


On May 4, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Robert Walton wrote:

>> How long would it take, do you think, to plant and establish pasture?

> I grew up on a dairy farm, we regularly rotated between corn, oats or
> wheat, hay and pasture.

Except for the wheat, we did the same in mid-Wisconsin. Oats or rye,  
alfalfa, then after hay and pasture, corn again.

Moon, if you guys get serious about the Ithaca area, you will profit  
from checking out the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life  
Sciences. Their Web page is:
http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/



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