Pigs Love Demolishing One Cover Crop and Planting Another

2 years ago
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This video shows how our Mangalitsa pigs demolished our summer cover crop in 10 days. It also shows how we reseeded the paddock with oats, cereal rye, wheat, mustards, and clover for a fall or winter forage crop.

Amount of seed for 4/10 of and acre paddock
1-1.5 Pounds of Cherokee Clover (2-3 Pounds per acre)
1-1.5 Pounds of Mustard (2-3 pounds per acre)
50 Pounds of 3 Way Mix (wheat, cereal rye, and oats) (120 pounds per acre)

0:00 Introduction
1:02 Goals for this Cover Crop
1:13 Walk through the Field after the pigs were on it.
2:01 Mangalitsa and Hampshire Cross Piglets
2:14 Mangalitsa and Duroc Cross Piglets
2:38 Sowing the Clover and Mustards and description of each variety
3:34 Sowing the oats, cereal rye, and wheat and description of the grains
4:30 Planting rate calculations with pigs
5:35 Why I plant with pigs rather than disc and tiller
5:48 Regrowth of pearl miller and sorghum Sudan grass (current cover crop)
6:15 Timeline of turning pigs in to graze cover crop, reseeding with a new cover crop, and pulling pigs off.

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