I hadn't heard of Journey before, but sounds like it would be a good substitute for Plateau. Good idea to price it out and consider doing square bales instead of round. Not sure you can justify making a round bale out of anything and selling it for a profit - but okay if you feed your own animals. My experience is that it pays to square bale everything - even 60/40 bermuda/johnson sells good in square bales. Have two 9-acre fields side by side - one is pure bermuda for $4/bale and the other is 'mixed' bales for $3.25. Have plenty of mixed-bale customers that feed cattle under special circumstances, like when a cow is sick up at the barn, or when it's just handy to throw a few squares out instead of chasing off with the bale fork thru the mud to get a round bale 2 miles away on a winter night. Also have plenty of horse customers who switched to the cheaper mix after I ran out of premium, and they still say the horses love it. Also plenty of female customers who like lightweight bales - mine barely weigh 50 lbs. I think that works out to $160/ton premium and $130/ton mixed. Also have MANY customers who comment they prefer my twine instead of wire, especially women who aren't comfortable using 'tools' (wire cutters). I'm a small timer, only 1500 bales last year, and that was off just one cutting, thanks to the June rains. Sold out the last of my 800+ bales of the mixed hay in mid February ...the same stuff that I seriously considered bush hogging and forgetting, back in July. Glad I didn't! I'm located in southeast Grayson county.

Sorry, I'm no good at identifying weeds so can't help you on that one.

Good luck, and let me know how the spraying goes.
David E.

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