Herd management on pasture It is important to have adequate water and shade for hogs on pasture. Studies show extremely high temperatures have an adverse effect on breeding herds, so it is important to provide adequate shade for them. Pigs of widely varying weights should not be run together. Avoid having a range of weights that exceeds 20 percent above or below the average in the herd. Rape Rape is neither a grass nor a legume but belongs to the same plant family as cabbage.
Rape requires a soil high in available calcium and responds to high levels of nitrogen.
Fertilize with phosphate, potash and lime as for alfalfa and with nitrogen as for corn. Rape may be seeded with spring oats as early as February or early March. Use a seeding rate of 5 to 6 pounds per acre. When the oats are drilled, the rape may be seeded through the grass seeding attachment or may be broadcast after the oats are seeded. Use a cultipacker or harrow to cover the seed very lightly.