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Re: Prairie Maintenance Costs - BURN COSTS

Our costs are pretty cheap: Just the cost of the seed.

Last year we just drove around and scattered the seed
from the back of the pickup - this on 100 acres.
This year we will no-till with a loaned drill on part
of the property, but broadcast on the rest. Also, t
his year we have been feeding seed hay to our herd.
I just scatter it and let them eat it up, trampling seeds
into the ground.

As for herbicides, we use our herd of ruminants
to eat the competing grasses into the dirt, then
plant. A lot of folks here could do the same -
get an FFA chapter to overstock a parcel
with sheep for two years, broadcast while they
are on it, let them stomp for another week, then
pull them off. If you had several parcels, you could
use the sheep in succession on each one. Some
people would argue that hard, short intensive grazing
is a much better method than mowing and burning.
(I say sheep because most people can handle
them fairly cheaply.)

-Austin Moseley



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