He will be invaluable not only with purchasing but also in selling. Be very observant the first 3 weeks after receiving cattle. If health problems are going to occur, this will be the most prevalent time. Don't hesitate, treat early, not late. This will attract aggressive buyers and allow sales direct off the farm, eliminating trucking expenses and reducing shrinkage.
Annual lespedeza is tolerant of acidity and low soil phosphorus.
In fact, under ideal fertility, it may be crowded out by more vigorous grasses and legumes. The use of annual lespedeza was a common practice in the 1930's and 1950's. Lespedeza has been on the comeback during the past ten years due to the fact that it can be frost seeded into high endophyte fescue pastures, compete with the fescue during the summer dormant period, and generate nitrogen into the system through its legume relationship, while providing a high quality forage to dilute the endophyte effect of the fescue. Frost seeding at a rate of five to ten pounds per acre has worked in Kentucky 31 fescue stands. Pastures should be managed to allow removal of late spring canopy to give lespedeza seedlings room to grow once warm weather arrives.