Planted 5 acres of orchard/alfalfa a week and an half ago!

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Then we got 7.79” of rain the last 4 days. That’s a smack down from Mother Nature.
 
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That is a little excessive on rain fall. And how much of the seed is still on your property? After week very doubtful was sprouted enough to stay put in that kind of rain.
 
   / Planted 5 acres of orchard/alfalfa a week and an half ago!
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I’m sure some stuck around. We’ll see this week. But definitely a broken field. It was plowed and disced, cultipacked, drilled(conventional) and cultipacked again. If it was no tilled then it would probably be better off but all my fields need turned over. Slowly renovating in 5 acre plots.
 
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For our area fall seeding are getting to be the way to go due to heavy spring rain fall. I hope is was no till. That’s a lot of lost soil if any kind of slope.
 
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We posted at same time. Is there oats with it to help stabilize soil until grass gets going? Hopefully the field is better than what I’m picturing
 
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We posted at same time. Is there oats with it to help stabilize soil until grass gets going? Hopefully the field is better than what I’m picturing
Yes i put oats in. This is crappy clay soil so it doesn't wash off like good soil. I dont do good with fall planting of alfalfa because of heaving. Spits them out. I’m fully prepared to redo it but will wait to see what kind of coverage i get.
 

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