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Post by wiscbooners89 on Aug 11, 2024 8:03:04 GMT -6
Checked on plots yesterday, beans are at least knee high and some spots are waist high. Pods are forming and we should have lots of winter food. Also the brassicas planted 2 weeks ago are up and looking good. Looks like rain coming this week so I'll give them a shot of urea.
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Post by smallchunk on Aug 12, 2024 14:20:58 GMT -6
Made a trip yesterday to one of the farms I hunt and spray some cleth in spots of some of my brassica plantings. I usually only plant one plot in the old pasture 100 yards from the barn, but the farmer didn’t get around to planting this spring. I chose to plant two plots in the fields. Pasture plot- about .20 acre, my own brassica mix. Broadcast 50 lb Pell lime, 25 lb triple 17, worked with harrow, broadcast seed and lightly hit with harrow after. Plot two- part of the field, made it so the farmer could work around it easily with the disk. Brassica mix I made. Dumb me planted it on crappy soil, but it is coming. Broadcast, spray and walk away. Plot three- 1.25 acres total. I forgot to take pictures! Stuff is growing good. Red is a screen mix of 2 types of sorghum and Egyptian wheat with a dash of beans and peas in with it. Got in late, probably won’t amount to much but if it can get 3-5 ft high it will help me get out with the elevation change. Blue is WI winter greens Yellow strip is wheat/peas. This is growing awesome. Went with wheat because a 50 lb bag is 12 dollars and a 40 lb bag of oats was 55! Was that a mistake? Green- WI Talk Tine Tubers. Corn in the field to the north.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 12, 2024 16:06:07 GMT -6
Made a trip yesterday to one of the farms I hunt and spray some cleth in spots of some of my brassica plantings. I usually only plant one plot in the old pasture 100 yards from the barn, but the farmer didn’t get around to planting this spring. I chose to plant two plots in the fields. Pasture plot- about .20 acre, my own brassica mix. Broadcast 50 lb Pell lime, 25 lb triple 17, worked with harrow, broadcast seed and lightly hit with harrow after. Plot two- part of the field, made it so the farmer could work around it easily with the disk. Brassica mix I made. Dumb me planted it on crappy soil, but it is coming. Broadcast, spray and walk away. Plot three- 1.25 acres total. I forgot to take pictures! Stuff is growing good. Red is a screen mix of 2 types of sorghum and Egyptian wheat with a dash of beans and peas in with it. Got in late, probably won’t amount to much but if it can get 3-5 ft high it will help me get out with the elevation change. Blue is WI winter greens Yellow strip is wheat/peas. This is growing awesome. Went with wheat because a 50 lb bag is 12 dollars and a 40 lb bag of oats was 55! Was that a mistake? Green- WI Talk Tine Tubers. Corn in the field to the north. It looks like there are lots of travel lanes and pinch points on that farm. Are the deer munching on the peas?
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Post by smallchunk on Aug 12, 2024 21:21:17 GMT -6
Made a trip yesterday to one of the farms I hunt and spray some cleth in spots of some of my brassica plantings. I usually only plant one plot in the old pasture 100 yards from the barn, but the farmer didn’t get around to planting this spring. I chose to plant two plots in the fields. Pasture plot- about .20 acre, my own brassica mix. Broadcast 50 lb Pell lime, 25 lb triple 17, worked with harrow, broadcast seed and lightly hit with harrow after. Plot two- part of the field, made it so the farmer could work around it easily with the disk. Brassica mix I made. Dumb me planted it on crappy soil, but it is coming. Broadcast, spray and walk away. Plot three- 1.25 acres total. I forgot to take pictures! Stuff is growing good. Red is a screen mix of 2 types of sorghum and Egyptian wheat with a dash of beans and peas in with it. Got in late, probably won’t amount to much but if it can get 3-5 ft high it will help me get out with the elevation change. Blue is WI winter greens Yellow strip is wheat/peas. This is growing awesome. Went with wheat because a 50 lb bag is 12 dollars and a 40 lb bag of oats was 55! Was that a mistake? Green- WI Talk Tine Tubers. Corn in the field to the north. It looks like there are lots of travel lanes and pinch points on that farm. Are the deer munching on the peas? Yeah, it’s a really cool farm. Like all of my spots, other people hunt them. This one gets bow hunted by two other people and then this one gets pounded during rifle with neighbors coming in through the east. Here is a screenshot with rough borders. Big useless bog there where the property jogs. All access is from the north, but I did get permission a couple of weeks ago from the prop owner to the SE to go through his horse pasture. I’ve never really hunted the south half due to the two/three times I did I bumped a ton of deer on the way out. This bach group was making there way to that strip of wheat/peas I believe. I noticed some tracks in there, but nothing crazy. I planted it really thick, they are 3-5 inches long or so already. I did get 3 different exclusion cages out there, but one was already trampled by a bear. I got 40 yards from one while spraying, scared the crap out of me first and then I scared the crap outta him!
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 13, 2024 4:39:00 GMT -6
It looks like there are lots of travel lanes and pinch points on that farm. Are the deer munching on the peas? Yeah, it’s a really cool farm. Like all of my spots, other people hunt them. This one gets bow hunted by two other people and then this one gets pounded during rifle with neighbors coming in through the east. Here is a screenshot with rough borders. Big useless bog there where the property jogs. All access is from the north, but I did get permission a couple of weeks ago from the prop owner to the SE to go through his horse pasture. I’ve never really hunted the south half due to the two/three times I did I bumped a ton of deer on the way out. This bach group was making there way to that strip of wheat/peas I believe. I noticed some tracks in there, but nothing crazy. I planted it really thick, they are 3-5 inches long or so already. I did get 3 different exclusion cages out there, but one was already trampled by a bear. I got 40 yards from one while spraying, scared the crap out of me first and then I scared the crap outta him! Nice buck! I have not figured out the use of peas by deer. Perhaps it varies with the variety of peas. Decades back a mix with peas was planted for cattle and nearly every pea plant was browsed. This year there were acres of edible peas and no deer tracks by them. Deer were on the soybeans. We didn’t have soys one the area when the peas were used.
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Post by smallchunk on Aug 13, 2024 12:39:25 GMT -6
The property owner just called and said the farmer pulled in with the sprayer to spray and seemed nervous because he didn’t want to make anybody mad. Told him if the farmer needed to spray, to go for it, not to worry about what I planted because he is renting it. I learned a lesson and definitely should have asked for the farmers number and communicated with him before doing anything. The owner had communicated with him and he told me to mark it so he didn’t disk it under. I guess he wasn’t thinking about spraying then. I feel crummy knowing the property owner is worrying about me in the situation when he should be worried about making sure the farmer needs to do what he needs to do
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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 14, 2024 17:48:21 GMT -6
My neighbor in Iowa planted a tucked away food plot (turnips/radishes). Bless his soul . Then they had 1/2 inch of rain today.
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Post by benmnwi on Aug 14, 2024 20:00:35 GMT -6
I overseeded some winter rye by hand tonight in my soybean plots. Hopefully we get the rain in the forecast and I have some late season bonus food for the deer.
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Post by Foggy on Aug 14, 2024 20:32:07 GMT -6
I overseeded some winter rye by hand tonight in my soybean plots. Hopefully we get the rain in the forecast and I have some late season bonus food for the deer. Might be just a bit early for that rye? Might be getting a bit mature by deer seasons? OTOH.....I just mowed some standing rye in order to take advantage of the "free" seed heads that are now hard and viable. It's all good.
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Post by benmnwi on Aug 14, 2024 21:36:03 GMT -6
I overseeded some winter rye by hand tonight in my soybean plots. Hopefully we get the rain in the forecast and I have some late season bonus food for the deer. Might be just a bit early for that rye? Might be getting a bit mature by deer seasons? OTOH.....I just mowed some standing rye in order to take advantage of the "free" seed heads that are now hard and viable. It's all good. It might be a little early, but it never seems to get too big since it doesn’t get much sun under the beans and corn. I’ll be happy if it was 6” tall this fall.
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Post by sd51555 on Aug 14, 2024 22:11:13 GMT -6
I don’t think rye can get bad in the planting year. If it doesn’t get eaten, the deer likely haven’t run out of better options. When I planted rye on June 30th years ago, deer hit that every sit thru November.
We had run out of better options by then. That was also the time we were learning that we didn’t have enough acres to offer #1 forages.
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Post by smallchunk on Aug 15, 2024 7:59:17 GMT -6
I agree with that. I feel every year when I broadcast rye around the first of September, by November I always wish I would have done it 20 days earlier!
Positive news, the farmer didn’t end up spraying my plots by the looks of it. It seems like maybe some of the drift got my screen, but I am cool with that!
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Post by smsmith on Aug 15, 2024 8:18:21 GMT -6
I need to get a pic of the neighbor's brassica plot. We finally got a plot worthy of pics. No more spray and pray with zero or minimal inputs.
The collard strip over there I sprayed and seeded to radish and turnip two weeks ago or so is starting to pop too. The neighbor had spread a bunch of urea there twice earlier, and he put down a few bags of 27-13-14 right before I sprayed. With last night's rain, that strip should really take off.
This will be the first year he has way more food than I do.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 20, 2024 7:20:38 GMT -6
[/url]. I put some rye down in the shooting lane, with just a bit of radishes and turnips. The corn is pretty poor, but recent rains helped.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 20, 2024 7:24:32 GMT -6
[/url]. I put some rye down in the shooting lane, with just a bit of radishes and turnips. The corn is pretty poor, but recent rains helped. [/quote]
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