Pasture & Farm Mowing

Farm Mowing Done Right

A pasture that doesn't get clipped goes downhill in a hurry — the grass heads out, the weeds win, and the thorny stuff starts creeping in from the fence lines. We clip pastures, mow CRP inside program windows, and brush hog the corners that got away. You farm; we'll run the mower.

Clipping, Brush Hogging and CRP

Three different jobs get called pasture mowing. Clipping is the routine one: knocking the seed heads and weeds off grazed ground so the grass stays palatable and the thistles never get going. That is usually $50 to $100 an acre depending on acreage and conditions.

Brush hogging is what a pasture needs once saplings, heavy weeds and thorny brush have already taken hold — the corners, the fence lines, the back forty that has not seen a mower in years. Heavy brush hogging is often billed hourly, generally $85 to $150 an hour, because the time depends on what is actually out there.

CRP and conservation ground is its own category. We mow it inside the program's timing rules, so if your county office has given you a window, tell us the dates and we will work within them. The mowing calculator gives you a ballpark for pasture or CRP ground, and the pricing page lists the rest.

Around Livestock, Weather and Your Rotation

We would rather fit around your grazing rotation than interrupt it. Tell us which paddocks are open and when, and we will mow accordingly. Gates get shut behind us, and we stay clear of stock rather than pushing animals to get a pass finished.

Wet ground we will reschedule. Cutting ruts into a pasture to stay on schedule is a bad trade — the ruts last years and the mowing could have waited a week. If you farm and would rather not think about any of this, a standing seasonal arrangement means the work simply happens.

Related: field and hay ground mowing, and brush clearing when the fence lines need more than a brush hog. We mow pasture around Lancaster, Manchester and across the region.