{"id":3126,"date":"2017-02-23T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2017-02-23T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:36:16","slug":"gearing-up-for-spring-improve-your-pasture-hayland-through-frost-seeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2017\/02\/23\/gearing-up-for-spring-improve-your-pasture-hayland-through-frost-seeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearing Up for Spring: Improve Your Pasture &amp; Hayland through Frost Seeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the spring-like weather these past few days, now&#8217;s the time to consider frost seeding as a cost-effective method to improve forage diversity and quality in your hayland and pastures.<\/p>\n<p>Frost seeding is a low cost seeding strategy that relies on the action of the soil freezing and thawing to achieve the seed-to-soil contact needed for germination. Frost seeding may begin when fields are without snow cover but when the ground is still frozen.<\/p>\n<p>Some keys to successful frost seeding include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Removal of extra vegetation before seeding (ideally grazing or mowing in the fall),<\/li>\n<li>Seeding early in the spring (after the snow is gone but while the ground is still frozen),<\/li>\n<li>Selecting species that can germinate when cold&#8211;Ideal species for frost-seeding include red and white clover seeding at rates between 6 and 8 pounds per acre&#8211;and,<\/li>\n<li>Allowing for new seedlings to establish (avoid over grazing and letting plants grow to 6 to 8 inches before harvesting).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on frost seeding, visit our article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/cropsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/frostseeding.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Frost Seeding: A Cheap Alternative to Improve Hay and Pasture Land<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the spring-like weather these past few days, now&#8217;s the time to consider frost seeding as a cost-effective method to improve forage diversity and quality in your hayland and pastures. Frost seeding is a low cost seeding strategy that relies on the action of the soil freezing and thawing to achieve the seed-to-soil contact needed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2017\/02\/23\/gearing-up-for-spring-improve-your-pasture-hayland-through-frost-seeding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gearing Up for Spring: Improve Your Pasture &amp; Hayland through Frost Seeding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36679,1],"tags":[45539,125521,420580,22111,125509],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-croppings","category-uncategorized","tag-frost-seeding","tag-hay","tag-livestock-forage","tag-pasture","tag-soil-building","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"outcropn","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/author\/outcropn\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67qLh-Oq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}