posted 13 years ago
Without having seen your land, this is only a wild guess, but from my own limited experience, if you were to plant a stand of weeping willows in that spot, the willows would suck up a lot of that water, grow rapidly as a result, and provide you with some pretty good (16% protein) cattle fodder for the summer and early autumn months -- and maybe some needed shade for your stock.
Now your spot might be too large or too wet for this to be practical, and you might not want to fence off the trees until they are too big for the cattle to damage, but my own cattle have benefited from having willow leaves to browse, and for cut and feed, in the summer months, and although my own land mostly drains like a sieve, I do have a couple of low spots that hold water longer, and I plan to plant willow in them. I hope this is helpful.
Pastured pork and beef on Vashon Island, WA.