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Looks like hemp for pulp. Paper and other things like that. Could be getting seeds for oil too. Early to mid october for harvest if I recall right. NY stopped offering $4000 an acre to try it out as a crop about 3 or 4 years ago. Alot of growers stopped after that.

Violi's and Kerr are 2 good examples. Red splendor is well touted for winter food, bird crab size though. Not super late, but granny smith is a good fall tree too. Black Arkansas is a must have for southern places too. Mid november here in NY zone 5/6. Kerr is a somewhat common apple at...

Love to o my own garden. Wife cooks what she wants, most stuff would rot in the fridge. Some farmers feed their herd better than the average human in the usa does. You might know this answer, why do some farmers roast their soybeans before mixing it in their silage mix?

If ammending go light n slow. sandy soil doesn't hold much extra nutrients. You put a big shot of lime or fertilizer, it just goes deep. Light applications several times a year / grwing season is ideal. Could be 75lbs/acre 2 or 3 times during the spring-labor day. Fertilizer when crops are...

Gly reacts with calcium right away. Alot of other chemicals go belwo 7 pH for storage in solution. IF you using this the same day, that effect is not happening. Some chemicals go from months in water ok down to a day or less in hard water.

Hard enough getting primers you like, not to mention powder. I know some of you shoot real far. I have trouble finding a place to practice past 200 yards. Rarely need to shoot far here in NY. A good shooting flintlock is good enough for me. So, my 30-30 grouping good with a scope is even...

One thing about rootmaker pots, pick them up and feel the weight before watering again. Some get a spot where soil has gone away and just dumps water out the side holes. I take a bit of soil and dam them up around the sides. Sometimes just picking them up deforms the soil and makes a water...

Reading up on pesticides and pH. Half life of pesticides sitting in the tank is greatly influenced by pH. Ended up order LI 700 surfactant by loveland. Lowers the pH and does a surfactant. Very good chance Adirondack creek water with tanin staining the color is low pH. Very much with a...

Folks who buy organic tend to demand and pay for it. IT might be covered under the cloak of "taste". Although organic farmers are not free from sin either. My soil at my home foodplot has been fertilizer free 2 years now. At camp, I am dealing with junk barren land. 2 foodplots are...

I pruned my young trees with issues pretty hard. My scions that have decent sized leaves, but not many; I cut the rootstock's branches off. Not alot of leavs, but lets see what I get. One rootstock had a failed graft, so I T budded between the roostocks healthy leader/ branches. I removed...

Weeds take time to tolerate..... Try the good old exclusion cage if your getting steady deer traffic in there over the summer. If you consider weeds your enemy, know your enemy. ID specific weeds your having trouble with. Perhaps atleast get a good closeup of a bit of the field. Then...

Seems there's a maybe. is depends on what kind of chemical you're using. If 2,4d is like 24db, there 2 majot kinds. Amine or holine based water soluble ones, and ones that are ester based. Amine of choline salts should be treated, while esters are not soluable, so not needed...

Spoke with local farmer who does no-till rotation and alot of wheat When he uses 2,4D no AMS. These guys were more or less taught by my brother in law. Their target was 5.5pH for gly sprays. He did say he's heard 5 is even better. Southern folks even like to go down to 4. However, they...

Lots of different answers. Some folks use micronutrient fertilizers for clover plots, some kick the plot into overdrive with nitrgoen, as for me, I'm the bang fr the buck type focusing on ptoassium and phosphorus more. Hoping the planting and the extra fertilizer will be good for a few...

If you spray your trees, clover isnt a good idea. Killing bees. Onced i was taught that, stopped frost seeding

2,4 D has residual soil activity. IT does harm trees, especially when overdosed. Saw liberty was an option for roundup resistant marestail. Have you tried roundup? Maybe mow, then do roundup a week or two later, when its young and more vulnerable. Got no experience with liberty. 2,4...

one of my dog's was blind on diabetes medication. I was in NYC working and going to school. Came back for the weekend, she waited for me to see her one more time. Wandered in the woods and never saw her again. Wish I could of said when.

The only time I had problems with my cheapie 15 gallon sprayer was using solid AMS pellets. Hows your water over there, pretty hard? Far as NY goes my water here isn't too hard. Used regular 41% gly, 2,4D, and clethodim many time without any AMS. Used gly without adding surfactant about...

With the seed drill and tall plants, perhap take a few car tires and bolt them together in a row, then take some chains and drape it off the the front bucket. Would push the tall stuff down while seeding. Walked my little 1/2 acre plot at home. Snipped out the 20 or 30 red aramath left in the...

Gave enterprise to a friend of mine getting a new house. He sent me a text this spring thinking the tree was dead. /just wakes up real late. ID say plant a few more if possible. Would like another on m111 at home. Got 1 m111 and 1 B118 enterprise. Usually crabapple are early to wake in the...