Thankyou Dan! [8D]

That info is great! I printed out a copy and plan to show it to the farmer that owns the land and cows. The friend has a 500 acres farm split up in three sections. Two by way of a dirt road and the other piece by way of adjoining property. We now have sole use of the land for hunting and help with work when needed. We will also be managing the deer herd as they are devastating his corn on one piece of the property. The other two are void of crops. An abandon piece has a field with waist high hey (not in use) of aprox. 10acres. The other piece is home to twenty or so cows and holds a hidden field 3 acres in size. This field is grazed to nil with grass.

Rotating the cows in this field sounds like it might work and we both benefit from that. Maybe if I planted in the hole three acres instead of just one or two. Fencing would be an issue, as I don’t like the idea of a cheesy electric fence. Feels to temporary. Maybe barbed wire around three acres wouldn’t be too much trouble. Close regulation would be the key it sounds. I might ad that the cows will have another 10 acre field of there own and aprox. half mile of pipeline to feed as well as a daily supply of hay. They won' t be void of food on the off cycle. Am I grasping for straws here or what? What do you think of this method?

I’ll check the hay field tomorrow and see what I have. My guess is it’s mostly grass because if it were anything else it would strike me as out of the ordinary and it just looks like any ol’ hay field. Above that is a sparse apple orchard of about 7 acres. It might be possible to plant there though I only walked threw it once so far and all I was looking at, at the time was trees for stands. This will be my first experience with planting anything other than arrows. I appreciate all your help!

Thanks again!