Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[farmerjan]

Looks like the grandkids and the grandparents had a good time and that the kids will go home talking about all this "stuff" they never had a chance to do before. It is great that you are giving them that extra in life. Congrats. And I wish I could have come south for the meeting but who knows, once I get more "retired" I may just be able to take a trip here & there.

 

[Mike CHS]

Teresa can't target the original article but we will keep looking. It wasn't strong enough to do the graze a lot of harm but the bleach solution was to weaken the larvae and the nitrogen was to counter the bleach affect as well as be a second hit on the larvae. In my case the grass needed fertilizer also. I used 3 gallons to a 40 gallon spray tank although the article called for 10% bleach. I wasn't willing to sacrifice that big of a field. This particular field was a pure blanket of ragweed, milkweed and thistle until a couple of years ago. It was the only one where I had to use multiple hits with 2-4-D among others for a couple of years to get something else growing.

 

[Mike CHS]

And I wish I could have come south for the meeting but who knows, once I get more "retired" I may just be able to take a trip here & there.

The young man said that he wasn't sure that the life we chose was not what he would call retirement but it seemed to keep us busy.

 

[greybeard]

The senior ewes are visibly with lamb so Ringo is getting frustrated because his noise isn't pointing him to any new work. We had to bring the 13 ewe lambs into the shelter so we could move the netting and get ready to move them in with Ringo. We pulled fecals from two that don't look quite as thrifty as the rest so we want to check parasite load before moving them. One of them is the black lamb that we have had to treat twice this year already. If she has a heavy load this time she is on her way to Columbia.

I sprayed one of the main fields today with liquid fertilizer. I sprayed that same field with a bleach & water mix a few days ago. Our Extension Agent sent us a study that came out of Purdue that indicated mowing down to around 6" followed by spraying with a bleach solution, followed by spraying with nitrogen fertilizer can really reduce Barber Pole larvae in the fields. I had the items on hand so I figured it couldn't hurt.

Teresa's son has been helping around the farm and came in today and said "I don't know how you guys do this and stay caught up".

A bleach solution (10%) should get a 99% kill rate if followed by nitrogen. Nitrogen fertilize alone will get around a 96% kill.
Like almost everything else, both are very short lived in their effects on soil/grass parasites.

Laboratory studies we conducted at North Carolina State University showed that 96.6% L3 barber pole larvae were not moving or dead when immersed in solutions of liquid nitrogen fertilizer (containing 32.7% urea and 42.2% ammonium nitrate (21.1% ammonium and 21.1% nitrate), corresponding to field applications of 30 lb of nitrogen per acre. Another laboratory study showed that a 10% solution of household bleach (5.25% sodium hypochlorite) resulted in 99.1% of L3 larvae not moving or dead. Higher solutions of household bleach caused lysis (disintegration) of the larvae.
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/decrea...ures-is-liquid-nitrogen-fertilizer-a-viable-a

https://www.tuskegee.edu/Content/Uploads/Tuskegee/files/CAENS/Caprine/alternative methods-min.pdf

 

[Bruce]

"I don't know how you guys do this and stay caught up".

Um, maybe you don't always stay caught up!

The young man said that he wasn't sure that the life we chose was not what he would call retirement but it seemed to keep us busy.

That's for sure! No sitting around in a Barcalounger for you two.

 

[Mike CHS]

A bleach solution (10%) should get a 99% kill rate if followed by nitrogen. Nitrogen fertilize alone will get around a 96% kill.
Like almost everything else, both are very short lived in their effects on soil/grass parasites.

Laboratory studies we conducted at North Carolina State University showed that 96.6% L3 barber pole larvae were not moving or dead when immersed in solutions of liquid nitrogen fertilizer (containing 32.7% urea and 42.2% ammonium nitrate (21.1% ammonium and 21.1% nitrate), corresponding to field applications of 30 lb of nitrogen per acre. Another laboratory study showed that a 10% solution of household bleach (5.25% sodium hypochlorite) resulted in 99.1% of L3 larvae not moving or dead. Higher solutions of household bleach caused lysis (disintegration) of the larvae.
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/decrea...ures-is-liquid-nitrogen-fertilizer-a-viable-a

https://www.tuskegee.edu/Content/Uploads/Tuskegee/files/CAENS/Caprine/alternative methods-min.pdf

Thank you again -Those were the articles we were reading but we couldn't round them up again.

 

[farmerjan]

Thank you for the links.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Glad your visit wen well with the grandkids, who knows maybe they will want livestock when they get older.

 

[Mike CHS]

Starting the 15th of September is the normal planting time for rye grass in this part of Tennessee. I prepped the two paddocks that I'm going to seed starting tomorrow. It seemed everyone waited for rain last year and many (including us) missed the prime time to get the seed on the ground.

 

[Mini Horses]

Mike, how are you seeding? drill? or?

Our extension service had/has a drill seeder that could be signed out by farmers to use for limited time. Charged by the meter on the device as to how much land covered to seed (?).

Would love to use it now but, no trailer to handle. Plus, it is most likely too large for my tractor. LOL A neighbor was doing several of his hay fields and did mine one year -- my seed and I pd for my use. Nice!

once I get more "retired

Yeah, MORE retired....that's my goal, too. Doesn't mean we don't work, just that we work more on things that WE want to do and generally for ourselves &/or friends.