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08/31/2006 15:27 9705223528 USDA SERVICE CENTER :'. .-'a `RANGE SEEDING (550) GUIDE SHEET PAGE 1 OF Z "'"" Practice will be utilized when health, vigor and/or species composition of existing native vegetation cannot be improved sufficiently to meet landowners needs but .other means such as implementation of grazing system or where areas with no vegetation are to be re-established to permanent cover. """ Practice will only be used where grazing by livestock can be Controlled so as to allow no use until grasses are fully established, which may take up to 3 full growing . seasons. ""` Seedbed preparation wpl be completed to the extent necessary and may include any or all of the following - 1. Intensive preparation through moldboard plowing in early spring followed by tandem discing once or twice then smoothing with springtooth or spiketooth harrow. This method MUST be used if significant perennial cover exists and is also useful if a lot of weeds are present. 2. Limited preparation in which the ground is worked no more than twice, typically chisel and harrow or disc and harrow, This is to be used when little or no perennial cover exists and weeds are not a major problem. It may be used in combination with method 3 if some ground disturbance is necessary. 3. Spray the existing vegetation and then drill directly into the resulting seedbed. ""' Once the seedbed is prepared then a cover crop of warm season sterile forage .sorghum will be planted around the first to middle of June. If no cost share is to be received it may be haroeSted for hay in October as long as a minimum 10 inches of stubble height remains after harvest. if cost-shared or producer does not wish to harvest then plant the ehd of June or first of July so only enough growth occurs to allow for adequate cover for seeding. This MUST be done if seedbed preparation method number 1 is used. ""' Grasses wilt be seeded with an approved grass drill whenever physically possible. They will be seeded according to the rates and dates set for on the Form CO-ECS- 5. Grasses will be seeded directly into the cover crop stubble or other adequately prepared seedbed after November lst or no later than May Ist the folowing spring. """ An approved grass drill has 7 to 12 inch spacing between double disc furrow openers with depth bands on every disc, packer wheels and be capable of planting fluffy seeds, equipped with a seedbox agitator, picker wheels and a separate small- seed seedbox. For light or fluffy seed, the seed tubes should drop seed between ,. the disc openers not behind them. ""` Seed will be placed at a depth of 1/4 to 3/4 of an inch. Seed will be Certified seed and be a,named variety if at elf possible. Seed should originate from a point no more than 200 to 250 miles south and/or t00 to 150 miles north and/or 200 miles east or west of the site to be planted.