So here is some unfinished reporting from my Oklahoma expedition last month. As reported, wheat pasture is big for feeding cattle. Here is Retail Partner Parker talking to a long-time AgroLiquid customer about wheat and who knows what else?
Looks good doesn't it? Still needs a little more growth before turning out some cattle. But wait, this isn't wheat. It's rye. He likes rye because it establishes faster on this sandy ground and gets better fall growth. It's also a little more cold tolerant. It's the first rye pasture for grazing that I had seen. He ran fertilizer through the drill, a blend of Pro-Germinator and High NRG-N.
But wait, what's wrong here?
Darn fall armyworm. They can do some serious damage if you don't catch them. There is certainly much more of a need for scouting insects in the fall in the South than we have up in Michigan. At this time of year there are two options: spray or wait for a frost. I think he was going to spray. There wasn't a huge amount of feeding, but it wasn't hard to find. Unchecked, large blocks of a pasture can disappear from armyworms. They are easier to control when small like this. Besides, that rye is for cattle, not worms. Not much market for armyworm ribeye.
