Thanks to all of you for your input. I took a couple of hours last night at
searched the bee-l archives back to January 1990. That is a very valueable
source of information! We are quite fortunate to have all that available for
our use.

All things considered, I am going to use roundup to kill all the junk weeds
in that lot. The crud growing there is mostly yellow dock and ragweed and it
has next to no value to the bees.

That said, I will be planting a replacement pasture shortly thereafter. Can
anyone recommend a seed mixture that would compliment both bees and large
farm critters? The use of the pasture will be mainly beef cattle and / or
horses. (Probably a goat or two thrown in for good measure.)

I am also toying with the idea of keeping one acre for just hay, with the
big critters in mind I would lean toward a typical alfalfa / orchardgrass /
clover mix.

Any specific suggestions on a more pro bee mixture? This idea came from a
post to bee-l about a fellow doing some independent reseeding of roadside
roundup spraying.

(http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9701A&L=bee-l&P=R4603)

Thanks, and all the best,
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Jason Apol ><>

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