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KNOW THIS SOUNDS like one of my hunting yarns, but so help me one of our local farmers made it through the winter feeding 130 bales of hay to 65 cows. That’s two bales per cow and they wasted part of that. f H.L. Manwaring, Red Oak Farms, is one of several Rappahannock cattlemen who are using stock piled tall fescue to extend their winter grazing. And this is the way he did it. On August 1, after the cows had grazed the fescue down to three or four inches, the cows were pulled out and moved over to graze bluegrass and orchardgrass pasture. The fescue was then top dressed with 50 to 60 pounds of Nitrogen per acre. (Phosphate, Potash and lime were applied according to soil test.
All livestock were kept off the fescue until the fall growth of other pasture was grazed off, which was about the first of December. At this time, the equilavent of 65 cows were turned in on 75 acres of stock piled fescue.
Cows had started calving the first of November. As of March 31, cows, calves and heifers were looking fine. Mr. Manwaring believes they wintered better than the 80 head he fed corn silage and hay. He plans to expand his fescue to 200 acres and if this system continues to prove successful to go into the winter with about 30 to 40 bales of hay per cow. JACK DeBERGH STRETCHED out his cows’grazing season until March 17 with top dressed stock piled fescue. Starting December 23 he turned 29 cows with 15 calves large enough to do some grazing on 14 acres of fescue for 1-1/2 hours each day until March 17. Never fed any hay during the period
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