Pasture Costs & Production Charts: Cost Considerations for Pasture Reseeding

Table of Contents

1. Conservation Tillage Program
2. No-till Program
3. Frost Seeding Program
4. Table 8-1
5. Table 8-2
6. Other Pasture Costs and Production Charts Recommendations
   • Fencing
7. Related Links
   
   

Conventional Tillage Program

Preparation/Tillage/Seeding

• Glyphosate treatment
  - chemical
  - application
• mouldboard ploughing
• secondary tillage (will vary with soil type)
  - disc
  - cultivate
  - harrow/level
• drilling companion crop (if any) and small forage seeds OR Brillion seeding if direct seeded
• extra pass for large forage seed (brome/orchard etc.) if needed
• packing/rolling if not done in seeding pass
  
  

Seed Costs

• forage seed (legumes and grasses)
• inoculant if needed
• companion crop seed (cereal)
  
  

Fertilizer

• lime (if any)
• fertilizer through drill (often 11-52-0 or 8-32-16)
• broadcast nitrogen (if any)
  
  

Removal of companion crop

• If taken as forage cutting/baling/wrapping or chop-ping
• plastic costs (if any)
• hauling
  
  

OR

• If taken as grain
  - combining /trucking
  - baling straw/ hauling

OR

• If direct seeded
  - cutting/baling/hauling as hay or silage
  
  

Maintenance fertilizer application once pasture is established

• P or K based on soil test
  
• N if low legume stand

   

No-Till Program

Seeding

• Glyphosate treatment
  - chemical
  - application
  
  

Seed Cost

- forage seed
- inoculant if needed

Fertilizer

- materials
- application

 

Frost Seeding Program

Seeding

• Application
  - hand seeded
  - all terrain vehicles
  
  

Seed Cost

• forage seed
  
• inoculant if needed
  
  

Fertilizer

• materials
  
• application, if applicable

 

Table 8-1. Pasture Record Chart*

	Field or Paddock	Pasture Species	Size	No. & Type of Livestock	Fertilizer Applied Amount & Type	April	May	June	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Total Days
1.
2.
3.
4.
Precipitation
Supplemental Feed Required

* Adapted from Manitoba Agriculture Pasture Record Chart

 

Table 8-2. Production Summary

Total Grazing Days:	______________________________________
Amount of Hay Harvested:	______________________________________
Field Condition, end of seson:	______________________________________
Mortality:	______________________________________
Animal Productivity/Health Problems:	______________________________________




Related Links

... on forages and pastures, visit Forages and Pastures (OMAFRA)
... on weed control, order Publication 75 Guide to Weed Control: Forage Crops
... on agronomy for field crops, order Pub.811 Agronomy Guide for Field Crops: Chapter 3 Forages
... on field crop protection, order Publication 812, Field Crop Protection Guide
... on livestock, visit Livestock (OMAFRA)