Drag the pasture after clipping to spread manure piles, destroy internal parasite eggs, and reduce selective grazing. Harvest established alfalfa approximately 30 days following first harvest. For top quality, harvest when in the late bud stage. Continue scouting for potato leafhopper. Harvest spring seeded legumes approximately 70 days following seeding.
Inventory pastures for poisonous weeds.
See UMC Guide 4970, Plants Poisonous to Livestock. Pick it up at your local University Outreach and Extension Center or click here to find it on the web. Harvest spring oats for forage at the boot stage for top quality. If pasture or hay fields have not been soil tested for several years, test them now. Fields to be planted in August should be tested now.