Planting corn

[Iron Rose]

Finished planting on May 2, 2009 got inch of rain on May 3. Crop off to good start but long way to go. This field is for hog pasture around the first of August I’ll turn a bunch of 60/70 # feeder pigs in. About the end of October they will have it completly harvested and hopefully ready for market. best part is no feed to grind or manure to haul.

[Ed Thayer]

Great picture. Can’t ask for a better day to work the horses from the looks of it.

[Rod44]

Nice looking planter. Don’t think I have seen one like it.

[Iron Rose]

The planter is a two row JD tractor planter thats been modified to horse’s. A dolly wheel was added and rubber press wheels replaced the origianal steel ones. Would like it to have fertalizer attacments but it works good.

[Carl Russell]

Hey Dan, I really like your management system. I bet those pigs just love that set up. Do you just turn them loose on the whole thing, or do you open up sections and close off others to concentrate their rooting etc.? I bet hey grow good on it.

[Plowboy]

Looks good !

[Iron Rose]

I usually fence off about a quarter of the field to start with. By the time that they get that cleaned up they are big enough to be turned into the rest of the field. I don’t feed any protein as long as the have plenty of green forage, may have to supplement soybean meal or distillers grain(ethonal byproduct) towards the end. Would like to find a market for pasture raised pork but as of yet only a few locker pigs.
You are right the pigs do seem happy just living as pigs were intended routing in the dirt and wallowing in the mud.

[jen judkins]

I was gonna start my own thread about this…but seeing as you are already discussing it…:p

I have a 3 bin set up for my manure..each 10 x 10…with removable 4 foot walls. I put the 20 lb piglets in the first bin…full to the top and in 2 weeks thay had that composted good. I moved them to the two other bins (middle wall removed) 3 weeks ago. Bigger area for them (and I had to run a hot wire around the top), but they are loving it! They burrow and play and when it gets cold at night…they bury themselves in compost…yaaaaaay! The local farmers market is on my case to sell composted manure….we might have a product here.

Go, animal powered composting! Can we have our own heading?

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