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I'm not sure about fescue seed per acre but my local farm supply says to use about 25# per acre of their pasture and hay mix which has some fescue in it. You can check with your local Ag extension agents and they might have more information.

There are many variables when it comes to curing hay before baling. Temperature, wind, relative humidity, heaviness of the crop, whether you are tedding it or just raking. I've been doing hay for about 15 years and every year is a little different. I'm in Western Washington and if I have days...

But the diesel will get better mileage. The diesel will cost more for repairs, if needed.

Safe to haul what? a horse?, a cow? sheep, goats? If you mean is your truck the right size to haul the trailer and 2000# of horses then yes according to the 7,000 towing capacity.

My manure spreader doesn't have roller links, just a loop with an opening. I loosen the chain and remove it from the spreader, set the link next to the one I want to remove edgewise on a metal block, turn the one I want to remove so the straight piece is in the opening and tap it sidways out...

An acre is 43560 square feet. Therefore one 1/2 mile row one foot wide would be 5.67% of an acre. Figure out how wide your rows need to be then start your calculations. Example ten acres would be 435,600 square feet 435600/2640/4= about 41 rows if your rows are 4' wide. Substitute the width...

1.24445602 cubic feet in a bushel. Since you are measuring volume it doesn't matter what product it is.

What size bales? Small square, big square or round? We have a mixture of grasses here and get about 75 to 85 55# bales per acre. It really depends on how heavy the growth is and whether it's fertilized or limed, if needed,

I'm experimenting (all farming seems to be an experiment) with a couple small areas by running a tine harrow over the areas a couple passes then overseeding and run the tine harrow with the tines flat. One area I seeded last fall and the other 2/18 since we had a short dry spell. Our...

We store our square bales on pallets but also have them in the barn on rubber mats with 6" of 5/8 minus compacted under the mats. No problem there. Did have one year where the stack against the outside wall molded due to lack of circulation. I ran a perforated pipe along the back wall and...