Natural fertilizer. I have had MANY years, including this year that I will have 90+ acres of knee high clover, trefoil, alfalfa brome, timothy, orchard grass that will be left standing. It is to late up here to dry good hay. Only exception if if we come into a dry spell with hard freezes at night. If you leave it stand, in the spring you will see a pinch of brown mixed in with your first cutting but nothing to worry about. I have cut a section out of a field and not cut it all. Next spring the section that didnt get cut most times yields better. Standing grass will catch snow and blanket the ground, helping insulate against frost kill. In a dry winter it will blanket the ground from wind and sun to hold moisture. The organic matter that lays down will decompose and make natural fertilizer. How to you think mother nature feed the earth before man invented synthetic fertilizer?? That's why the prairie was so fertile before John Deere invented the plow. At least that is how it works her in the northern Great Lakes. Al
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Today's Featured Article - Identifying Tractor Smells - by Curtis Von Fange. We are continuing our series on learning to talk the language of our tractor. Since we can’t actually talk to our tractors, though some of the older sect of farmers might disagree, we use our five physical senses to observe and construe what our iron age friends are trying to tell us. We have already talked about some of the colors the unit might leave as clues to its well-being. Now we are going to use our noses to diagnose particular smells. ELECTRICAL SMELLS
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