Oats

2019-09-8:  In preparation for planting oats for winter forage in the fields where we had planted cowpeas for the summer, I sprayed weeds coming up after mowing a couple weeks earlier.  That same day, after spraying, Jeffrey followed with the Grassfarmer seed drill and planted Coker 227 oats.

2018-09-24:  Seed germinated rapidly, 2-3 days after planting.  Here a little over 2 weeks later, the oat plants are several inches tall.

This is the south field about 2 weeks after planting.

2018-09-25:  Some Canadian geese stopped in to rest and graze on oat seedlings.  This is in the south field again.

2018-10-05:  Here I am towing a fertilizer buggy around with the John Deere 2955.

This is the south beaver field getting a fertilizer application.  I fertilized all the oats and put a half dose on the the east and west bahia fields (we cut hay off these fields earlier).

There has been plenty of rain for the oats to grow, it would have been better to get the fertilizer on a couple of weeks ago to get them going better.

Another view of the oats in the south beaver field.  One problem with having to fertilize these young plants is mashing them with the tractor and buggy.  They will recover, and in general be better off than if we did not give them some fertilizer.