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There’s of course a limitless list of things you could do… Without even getting into timber stand improvement, IMO some food plots for early season, and some food plots for late season are relatively easy. Doesn’t necessarily require any heavy equipment, just some potential soil amendment...

I shouldn’t even write this, it’s bad juju and I generally try to speak little of anything that’s actually working… but I think we’re in the fourth season now of a group of eight cameras out in the woods. For some of them in the sunniest areas the plastic is getting a little brittle and...

I grew up on a farm in northeast Ohio, dad didn’t hunt but my cousin took me once and I was hooked. I started pursuing it on my own, bought a bow, and I used to go sit on a large tree that had split and one side toppled over. The split created a flat section of splintered trunk that I could...

I used the term doe factory to trigger some responses, haha, whether it’s real or not it does pretty quickly describe the possible issue. Our place is as much a buck factory as a doe factory, there’s a bunch of both sexes, I’d just like the production line set up for the occasional rack to get...

It’s a thing, and it doesn’t get better.

Naw, this farmer mentioned it years ago and hasnt mentioned it since. He’s a good dude. If he did mention it I’d probably agree with him, I can see the browse his beans are taking.

Yes agree I think I’m losing my mind, when I read the original post I swear I also saw a forecast picture included that was hot and dry, but that must’ve been a different post. Sorry thought this was an army worm / dry soil post, but it’s just an army worm post, my mistake.

Interesting and encouraging, and I do agree all things considered many properties mine included need more doe harvest. Who knows might even make lock down during the rut a little less noticeable.

Thanks all, I don’t believe we have a too many mouths to feed issue, right now it’s simply just one deer four years old or older, an age class thing. But yes the season is young, and this is just one year… and it’s certainly easier to wait and see than trying to get some nuisance permits. It...

While back the farmer who farms our tillable told me that in the early 2000s he and his son took something like 30 deer out of our fields on nuisance permits, between us and the neighbors let’s call it 200 acres and 60 tillable. My dad had never told me about this!… anywhoo farmer said in the...

I saw a decent forecast here in NE Ohio, Monday hung with the family then at 4 PM drove the 1.5 hours to the property to get the layer of grains down - doing triticale and had some left over wheat and oats and a bit of brassicas. Got home at midnight but the seed was on the dirt; today we got...

Yes I could mow it or roll it down and lightly disk at 90 degrees, just interested to see what the weeds do between that and fall planting time… probably a month and a half or so.

Thanks @Wind Gypsy @PatinPA Im in NE Ohio… maybe next year I’ll terminate half the grains early (edit: terminate on time in dough stage) and let half the grains stand through fall planting time, although I have a hard time imagining this working without some Gly here and there. Takes time to...

@roymunson I’m in Ashtabula, if there was a lever to ban baiting in the state I’d pull it, ESPECIALLY in some radius of the CWD area.

I’ve been doing the typical fall plots rolled down over buckwheat in early June… could someone direct me to an existing thread or offer some guidance, does anyone have a clever process for skipping the summer buckwheat step, while ideally still avoiding spray and tillage? I ask this now because...

I’m in NE Ohio, put in about 60 Route 9 seedlings in 2017/2018. I live over an hour away from the property so I cared for them best I could but not great… I’d say they’re at 90% or better survival as of this year, and starting to crank out some nuts. Been fun and sometimes stressful (deer...

Can’t comment on pheasant and I haven’t tried milo, but if you do get the beans going, and if you do get the greens going, and if the neighbors take the crops off, at least for deer seems you would be in real good shape. I’m in 5b/6a here and if it were much cooler might even start looking for...

I spose this is as good a place as any to ask… I’ve been doing 3 acres of plots for about 5 years now, but as I incorporate more and more cover cropping I’ve been hesitant to add hairy vetch after reading it’s possibly poisonous. Can anyone set me straight, it looks like an awesome cover crop...

@Brokenbear thats a great point, and only last year did I start looking at my rainbow colored seed mixes wondering how much of this the turkeys are filling their bellies with. So started looking for uncoated seed in 2023. Agree though this is probably doubly important with corn… if I go down...