During my review of files this afternoon, I came across the Conservation Plan for our "A" Twp. farm as well as the ASCS Conservation Reserve agreement. Needless to say, I couldn't throw either of them in the garbage. This picture fits right into that time frame when we had the terraces constructed, much of the basic seeding done and were doing some "spot over-seeding" with this rig. Elaine was along to take care of the 4 kids when we unhooked the trailer and did our seeding. The little "end-gate" seeder ran off the power take-off and worked great. While we over seeded some bromegrass to make sure we had cover, we also seeded some Sandlove grass that came on beautifully in the following years. Basically, it was seeded to Switchgrass, Big and Little Bluestem, and Indian grass. The farm has been sold a couple times since we had it back in the 1950's and '60's but has never been cultivated. It has been pastured after coming out of the Conservation Reserve program. Unfortunately, much of the Native grasses have been overtaken by Bromegrass. My having seeded a bit of it to assure cover may have been part of the problem but the management of warm season grasses is distinctly different than the cool season Brome. We drove past it last week and it still looks much better than when we bought it 60 years ago.
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