Holy crud Native seed is expensive!

[IkemanTX]

Picked up some native seed for the ranch for after the dozer does its work next week. For one acre it costs $223. Its $19.75/lb and takes ten lbs to seed one full acre. Goodness. Seeing we expect to doze about 20-30 acres I’ll go broke before seeding it all. Just going to have to seed lightly and hope I can seed more as we go along lol.


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Where’d you get your seed, and what kind of mix was it?

I am looking at bringing half of the family place back into Blackland Prairie in the next few years, and the only place I can find a good Blackland mix is Native American Seed. They want $34 a pound for 50lb+ quantities..... that’s 7K for the 20 acres I want to do, not including site prep or equipment time!

At that price, I’m hoping I can find a grant or NRCS program to cost share.


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[IkemanTX]

Hope you have better luck with it than we did! Our germination rate was awful!


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For my own education, while looking at doing this very thing....

What month and year did you plant, and how were rain timings?

Where was your seed sourced from? (i.e. company)

What soil type do you have?

What site prep did you do for the planting?


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[mmlreiner]

Where’d you get your seed, and what kind of mix was it?

I am looking at bringing half of the family place back into Blackland Prairie in the next few years, and the only place I can find a good Blackland mix is Native American Seed. They want $34 a pound for 50lb+ quantities..... that’s 7K for the 20 acres I want to do, not including site prep or equipment time!

At that price, I’m hoping I can find a grant or NRCS program to cost share.


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I got my seed from wildseed in Fredericksburg and the mix is listed above in another post.


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[unclefish]

If there was just a good place to get switchgrass seed I'd plant that.

Gary

I got mine from Bamert Seed out in Muleshoe. They have a great selection of native grasses. I used Alamo which gets taller than the Blackwell.

https://www.bamertseed.com/product/switchgrass/

[lovemylegacy]

Picked up some native seed for the ranch for after the dozer does its work next week. For one acre it costs $223. Its $19.75/lb and takes ten lbs to seed one full acre. Goodness. Seeing we expect to doze about 20-30 acres I’ll go broke before seeding it all. Just going to have to seed lightly and hope I can seed more as we go along lol.


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You do understand that when you doze or plow you reintroduce a seed bed that has been dormant for a long time?

[mmlreiner]

You do understand that when you doze or plow you reintroduce a seed bed that has been dormant for a long time?

This isn’t always the case if the native seed bed wasn’t there to begin with due to circumstances. In our case, certain areas have healthy strands of native grasses nearby where we dozed. Those areas weren’t seeded like the areas where we knew it was struggling.


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