Re: Grass hay irrigation
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04/11/20 08:46 PM
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danny clifton
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How many horses you planing on feeding? That will tell you how many tons of hay you need and how many acres of pasture. Your best bet is talk to some of the cowboys where you live.
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Re: Grass hay irrigation
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04/11/20 08:47 PM
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Bruce T
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Have hated since I was a kid on the family farm and worked growing up on various farms during hay season and have never seen or heard of anyone ever watering hay crops.
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Re: Grass hay irrigation
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04/11/20 08:48 PM
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danny clifton
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well bruce they do in the west
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Grass hay irrigation
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danny clifton
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and that is why you need to talk to the local cowboys jack dale
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Grass hay irrigation
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04/11/20 08:53 PM
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Lots of dairies use what your talking about, ive seen alot of them in use but never messed with them. I know you roll them out and they wind them self up. The biger ones run off the same main line that wheel lines and hand line hook up too.
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Re: Grass hay irrigation
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04/11/20 09:46 PM
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^ I'm far from an expert on your question what would work or what would be better system for you. I owned an irrigated farm and it was flood irrigated and worked very well for me. I looked into wheel line many times but nevah pulled the plug on doing it. I had a few chances to buy used lines and instead stayed with flood system.
I know many that have had wheel lines and or the sprinkler systems that you are talking about. I believe both work very well in their own way and largely depends on acre numbers.
If you don't have a lot to irrigated acres to do, a sprinkler system is a great way and a lot of people use them here.
If there is anyway to flood is a great way way, to put on water. The land needs to be laying right or some leveling/sloping but can be a great way and in most years just need to do it a couple of times.
Interesting how people don't realize in the west we have to have irrigation for hay ground/pasture etc.. If irrigation wouldn't be an option in the west it would be like living in the dessert with nothing most years. And in the west most is dessert land and relies on crops/hay from out of area that have irrigation or from wetter parts of the country for those livestock product.
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Re: Grass hay irrigation
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04/12/20 10:57 AM
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Jack, do you know what pump you have or the amount of head it can pump? If it’s a low pressure pump it may not work well with a spool sprinkler without a booster pump. Your well guy can provide you with a pump curve and then you will be able to see if it will work. As mentioned above flood irrigation is very effective on smaller fields if they are fairly level and graded. Flood could be more efficient depending on the amount of wind you get. A lot goes into a cost effective irrigation system.
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Re: Grass hay irrigation
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04/12/20 11:08 AM
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well bruce they do in the west Interesting.Growing up most my summers was haying.Nobody around here water their hay fields.
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