They Wrote This Ground Off. We Didn't.
Been the first year we were waiting on the sprayer to get here and we'd have been out here with squirt bottles and spraying it on if it had gone another day. There's a lot of the old timers say you can't grow alfalfa here because there is no prime farmland in this county because There's not twenty nine frost free days. This field had set vacant for as long as we've been around. Used to be you could graze three, four horses for a month, then it was dust and dirt. We came in, farmed the ground, planted the alfalfa. I think it was social media advertisement. That's where we first saw it, and then we did a little research on it, of course. But we're pretty happy with what we've seen from Rhyzogreen on the results. We applied it on this field after first cutting. What's behind us is third crop which is the first time there's been third crop alfalfa in this country. This is an extremely dry year, so we had no rain in June, one storm in July. The other part about it is we only went over the field with one application of irrigation on each cutting, So that was pretty economical watering for us. First cutting was just shy of two ton per acre and second cutting was one point seven five ton per acre and and that was cutting it a little quick, but we added our grass hay to get to so probably would have equaled the production if we'd have waited another week or two. Definitely makes your economics better. You know, you can justify you get that much more production. That's that's alfalfa we won't have to buy. We just need a bigger field now. But we've always thought it's probably the the microbial action that inhibits a lot of this. There's more to it, I think, than just, you know, NPK being out there. If it ain't in the soil, it ain't in the plant, it won't be in the cows. Or on the cow if you're by pounds. I think we'll see more just because this was such a dry year and we think we can do a little better on timing. I think that'll show a big increase in the we'll definitely stay with it, I think.
Don Lamborn - Opal, WY
Crops
- Alfalfa
Fast Facts
- First Time 3rd Crop On This Land
- Solid 1st and 2nd Cutting With Minimal Moisture
Don Lamborn farms in a part of Wyoming where old timers say you can't grow alfalfa. This year he proved them wrong.
After applying Rhyzogreen following first cutting, Don pulled just shy of 2 ton/acre on first cutting and 1.75 ton/acre on second — with only one irrigation pass each. No rain in June. One storm in July. And third crop alfalfa is still standing in the field.
First time third crop alfalfa has ever been grown in this part of Wyoming. Don believes it goes beyond just the fertilizer numbers — the microbial activity in the soil is where the real difference is being made. And with better timing planned for next season, he expects even bigger results.
"If it ain't in the soil, it ain't in the plant, and it won't be in the cows."
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