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Post by nitro27 on Jun 4, 2024 15:32:00 GMT -6
Food plots plans for 2024 have been thrown in the circular file. Rain, rain, rain and more rain, haven't turned a wheel on tractor to do any work. Farmer next to me spread fertilizer and started to work field. Then the rain started again, 2-3 inches this time. Round up and brassicas could be a good option for you if things stay wet for the next couple weeks. You still could have a good soybean crop if you can plant them soon, but if your ground drains slowly that may not be an option. That is my plan, planting beast feast (20% Dwarf Essex Rapeseed, 15% Pacer Forage Rapeseed ,15% Bonar Rapeseed, 15% Bayou Kale, 15% Turnips ,15% Daikon Radish and 5% Sugar Beets I've planted this mixture before from RJ Hunt seed and worked out great, plant mid July. Traded the soybean seed I had for early maturing beans.
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 4, 2024 19:53:33 GMT -6
Third day in a row.
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 4, 2024 20:06:15 GMT -6
Those cubs are cute little turds. I don’t mind bears as much now that bear tags are easier to get. Sows with cubs are off limits though, so that isn’t so good for you if those rules are the same in mn.
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Post by smsmith on Jun 10, 2024 12:53:22 GMT -6
I sprayed cleth on a couple of my clover plots and on a strip of collards at the neighbor's today. His collards look good. If the rain keeps coming and he feeds them some nitrogen, it should be a really nice plot going fall. I had a lot of grass (not sure if it's witch grass or fall panicum) taking over in spots, but I expect the cleth will knock it back. After I finished with cleth I switched to a gly/broadleaf killer mix and nuked around 2/3 acre of weedy rye on the neighbor's place. The plan there will be nuke again with straight gly in July and then plant a brassica mix. edit...I did some searching on witchgrass. I had a suspicion it was allelopathic, I found this statement: "Witchgrass grass grows best in poor soil and disperses an allelopathic chemical that keeps wanted plants from growing." www.solutionsstores.com/witchgrass-controlWhere I've got the most witchgrass certainly isn't my best soil, and it sure seems like the stuff will grow densely and not allow anything else to get started. I wonder how long that impact lasts?
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Post by smsmith on Jun 16, 2024 9:32:51 GMT -6
I went out and threw down some collard and turnip seed on the sections of the house plot that have dying grass from the cleth application ^^^
If we get an inch or two of rain next week, they should really take off I'd think. Maybe use up some of the accumulated N that is encouraging the grasses to grow...
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 16, 2024 13:09:46 GMT -6
It looks like there are several hundred acres of edible peas on the irrigated land next to me. It will be interesting to see how much use they get.
Decades back, a peas and oats mix had the peas heavily browsed. I planted just a few peas one other time and they saw very little use.
30 acres of new seeding alfalfa is on the other side of the woods and sweet corn on another side.
Does are on the alfalfa now.
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 16, 2024 21:25:35 GMT -6
It looks like there are several hundred acres of edible peas on the irrigated land next to me. It will be interesting to see how much use they get. Decades back, a peas and oats mix had the peas heavily browsed. I planted just a few peas one other time and they saw very little use. 30 acres of new seeding alfalfa is on the other side of the woods and sweet corn on another side. Does are on the alfalfa now. The peas should get picked early if they are canning peas. Any idea if they will plant a second crop or cover crop offer picking the peas? Those fields can be great deer draws around here.
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 17, 2024 4:04:11 GMT -6
It looks like there are several hundred acres of edible peas on the irrigated land next to me. It will be interesting to see how much use they get. Decades back, a peas and oats mix had the peas heavily browsed. I planted just a few peas one other time and they saw very little use. 30 acres of new seeding alfalfa is on the other side of the woods and sweet corn on another side. Does are on the alfalfa now. The peas should get picked early if they are canning peas. Any idea if they will plant a second crop or cover crop offer picking the peas? Those fields can be great deer draws around here. I was wondering the same thing. The adjacent land he owns is now in corn after a rye cover crop. There is a program to increase use of rye cover crops in our area/watershed.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jun 18, 2024 17:42:51 GMT -6
We drilled in rye and clover in August/23 (a friend did) and the rye is super tall and the clover is there underneath! Worked great . Will mow soon .
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Post by daydreamer on Jun 18, 2024 18:39:36 GMT -6
Here’s my sunflower/buckwheat plot😂 Pumpkins on the far left side are hilled and at least aren’t standing in water.
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Post by smsmith on Jun 18, 2024 18:53:32 GMT -6
^^that looks pretty tough. My north plot is wet/damp but there's no standing water (well maybe there is now again).
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Post by biglakebass on Jun 18, 2024 18:59:43 GMT -6
hate to poo poo the rain!!! but!!!!
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jun 19, 2024 9:27:42 GMT -6
My neighbor in Iowa said corn 🌽 is armpit high on mine. Lots of rain and they’ve had heat too .
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 19, 2024 12:30:12 GMT -6
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 19, 2024 12:37:37 GMT -6
The last few years were so dry that I decided to try a couple drought tolerant crops for the first time - wild game milo for the roosters and a mix of grain sorgrum (taller than the wild game milo) mixed with cow peas. It is fitting that I have some erosion in these plots from too much rain!
But overall things are looking good at my house. I planted my soybeans and corn about a month ago and they are doing really well. They should really take off in the next week or two and hopefully they can canopy quickly to prevent some weed growth. I used a pre-emergent herbicide this year for the first time and it worked pretty well. It wasn't perfect, but I'm hopeful that it will help with some of the herbicide resistant weeds that like to grow on my place.
My apple crop is looking great this year - some of trees I planted in 2019 will have their first solid crops this year. These trees are on some really sandy ground, but i've been adding grass clippings, leaves, dead raccoons and anything else I can find to improve the soil. It seems to be working since the trees are really looking solid.
I need to prune out more lower branches than I anticipated though since some of these trees have quite a bit of deer browse damage on their lower branches.
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