[AT] Clean Water Rule

Mogrits mogrits at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 13:28:04 PST 2017


Nothing in nature I know of will clarify a body of water like straw or hay,
so maybe that mixed with the mud from the hooves balance each other out
when they reach the creek.

Warren

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> I have been feeding my cows in some long wide hay feeders that would fit
> a round bale if placed just right.  It seemed to save a little hay, but
> after a couple of weeks they had pulled enough out of the feeders and
> tromped it until it was a mess.  I fed them in a low place near a creek
> so they were out of our normal 30mph wind.
>
> I was about to run out of the good hay and I have about 200 bales of
> "cow"hay that came from another farm.   It is a little drier, but is
> still good.  just not the green native bluestem we bale here.   I found
> a bale unroller at the local dealer, and tried unrolling a bale.  I
> really bought it to lay down before we put out cubes with the feed
> truck.  That way they would get dry cubes instead of them melting on the
> wet ground.  The cows loved it, and now they go after the unrolled bale
> without cubes almost as good as if it had cubes on it.  I can now spread
> the hay around the pasture to create a mulch that is well needed, and
> not have so much crap and wet hay concentrated around the feeders.  It
> also gets rid of the lower quality hay.. in addition to keeping the
> creek cleaner.
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
> On 2/28/2017 10:37 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> > Regardless of which side of the issue you fall on, the executive order
> sis not overturn it.  All the executive order did was to begin the review
> process. Since it is a regulation there are as many hurdles to undo it is
> there is to do it to begin with. So it will be months/years before it is
> actually overturned.
> >
> > So for the time being everyone keep the antique tractors out of the
> natural areas your forefathers  created around your intermittent flows and
> seasonal wetlands - which they did out of common sense.
> >
> > Back to tractors.....
> >
> > Spencer Yost
> >
> >> On Feb 28, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Dave <rotigel at me.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I’ve heard it discussed/criticized before by many who are on the LIST
> and farming, but I’m curious as to thoughts on the EO overturning the Clean
> Water Rule today
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