Made it to the farm today

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Put this pic in another thread but want to document it here. I’m a believer in Imox. Expensive herbicide but it knocked the crap out smart weed, grasses and daisies. (If anyone wants to try it don’t use the amount on the label, use the rates shown on the Raptor herbicide label). 6-12 oz/acre. I used 8 on this field. View attachment 30237

I almost didn’t plant beans because I had so many volunteer plants.

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After crimping, drilling and spraying. I still have some instant beans left.

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Here is why clover is always in my brassica mix and I come back with rye in September.

I’ll kill this next year for the brassicas again. But while we wait out this year I’m done except for a mower.

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No need to get the mower out here! I’ll just let the seeds fall where they may.
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I always mow 1 strip around the outside edge fields I’m letting go fallow. So in 20 years there is a road. Stumbled on to a bucks bedroom. Perfect spot. Shade tree, part way down the hill and 1 jump to a wooded drainage ditch. I think I’m smart for noticing it. He was gone long before I got close...
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Dan Infalt says mature bucks don’t bed in the middle of wood lots in farm country, they bed in places exactly like you found. They have a massive sight, sound and likely wind advantage, can keep tabs on the action (plotters and hunters), and are always just a leap away from an escape route. Cool find


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[BC Buck]

While in velvet my bucks stay away from areas of high stem count. After velvet comes off its all thick and nasty.

 

[Jordan Selsor]

Put this pic in another thread but want to document it here. I’m a believer in Imox. Expensive herbicide but it knocked the crap out of smart weed, grasses and daisies. (If anyone wants to try it don’t use the amount on the label, use the rates shown on the Raptor herbicide label). 6-12 oz/acre. I used 8 on this field. View attachment 30237

I almost didn’t plant beans because I had so many volunteer plants.

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After crimping, drilling and spraying. I still have some instant beans left.

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Here is why clover is always in my brassica mix and I come back with rye in September.

I’ll kill this next year for the brassicas again. But while we wait out this year I’m done except for a mower.

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No need to get the mower out here! I’ll just let the seeds fall where they may.
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I always mow 1 strip around the outside edge of fields I’m letting go fallow. ( So in 20 years there is a road.) Stumbled on to a bucks bedroom. Perfect spot. Shade tree, part way down the hill and 1 jump to a wooded drainage ditch. I think I’m smart for noticing it. He was gone long before I got close...
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Thanks for sharing Bill! I need to step my weed control game up in my clover plots!

 

[Native Hunter]

Great updates Bill. Getting that land is awesome for sure.

 

[Bill]

Hard to believe this was a clean hay field 10 years ago. I seeded it to switch grass and walked away. Silver maples, cottonwoods and cedars are taking over. Not fruit trees and maybe not the best deer trees but it’s bedding for free and beats the heck out of a hay field/golf coarse in November.

here is another section of that 10 acre hay field. South slope and Mother Nature is replacing switch with thermal cover. The switch grass did it’s job for years. Time for the next chapter when it turns into a cedar thicket..

I’ll feed them elsewhere this is bedding.


Speaking of feeding them, this has to be the most successful clover I’ve ever planted. Looked in June and didn’t see a reason to mow. Looked a couple days ago and still don’t. Ok I did hit the grass with Cleth so it doesn’t throw seed

 

[Bill]

Also please rain!
I drilled 4 acres of brassicas into a sad soybean plot. Also did an acre of buckwheat and oats because I was bored....

 

[Tree Spud]

Is that your corn in the background? You may need some screening cover. Maybe consider some SG in that field to fill in open spots.

 

[Troubles Trees]

I am definitely jealous of what you guys are doing, someday I will get the right tools to do these kind of things. Until then I will continue babying my trees and shrubs and drool over my keyboard at your successes.
Great job Bill

 

[Bill]

Is that your corn in the background? You may need some screening cover. Maybe consider some SG in that field to fill in open spots.

There is actually quite a bit of switch left. All the brown grass clumps are switch. Just been so dry it’s not very tall yet.

Corn is the neighbors. They don’t hunt that field, no trees on their side. And thankfully we have the same goals and get along well

 

[scott44]

Hard to believe this was a clean hay field 10 years ago. I seeded it to switch grass and walked away. Silver maples, cottonwoods and cedars are taking over. Not fruit trees and maybe not the best deer trees but it’s bedding for free and beats the heck out of a hay field/golf coarse in November.

here is another section of that 10 acre hay field. South slope and Mother Nature is replacing switch with thermal cover. The switch grass did it’s job for years. Time for the next chapter when it turns into a cedar thicket..

I’ll feed them elsewhere this is bedding.
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Speaking of feeding them, this has to be the most successful clover I’ve ever planted. Looked in June and didn’t see a reason to mow. Looked a couple days ago and still don’t. Ok I did hit the grass with Cleth so it doesn’t throw seed
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Add some MG clumps through out that field.

 

[j-bird]

Funny what happens when you simply can get the grass out of the way.... I have a smaller patch...maybe 3 or 5 acres across a large creek that I can't get equipment to. For a long time it was just fescue....I simply let it grow up and it turned into a giant brambles patch and now the trees are growing. Like you mentioned maybe not "deer" trees, but still trees. They are mostly walnut in my case...so maybe someday they will make me some money. The only constant is change. At some point the cover will be too dense and will start opening up and then it's time to go in and get more daylight on the ground. Rotating some areas like that on a 5 to 10 basis can be great cover on an ongoing basis...as long as you don't want timber. I have a few other areas I would love to do something with but they are too close to the road and the wife like the clean mowed look.....I don't mind the "messy" look because I know the critters like it too.

 

[Bill]

Add some MG clumps through out that field.

that’s a good idea.

 

[swat1018]

I'm just back from NEMO. Crops look well. It's been the best growing season, in some time, for me. Fertilized some milo, planted some clover/brassica, sprayed some more clover with Imox. Plus, have a couple shooters on the farm, didn't expect that after last years EHD. May be the year for my first Booner, if I don't let him age another year. There were scattered showers around when I was leaving town, we are due for some rain, it's no emergency, but my fresh seed and fert could use it. Not sure about you, but this is as dry as it's been all year, so far.

 

[Someday isle]

I’m in central Missouri and we’ve been loaded with rain. 3.5 inches again last night. Funny how a couple hundred miles makes such a big difference.

 

[MN Slick]

I'm just back from NEMO. Crops look well. It's been the best growing season, in some time, for me. Fertilized some milo, planted some clover/brassica, sprayed some more clover with Imox. Plus, have a couple shooters on the farm, didn't expect that after last years EHD. May be the year for my first Booner, if I don't let him age another year. There were scattered showers around when I was leaving town, we are due for some rain, it's no emergency, but my fresh seed and fert could use it. Not sure about you, but this is as dry as it's been all year, so far.

Have you had good results with Imox on your clover this time of year? Everything I've seen on it says spray when the weeds are young. Thanks

 

[Bill]

I'm just back from NEMO. Crops look well. It's been the best growing season, in some time, for me. Fertilized some milo, planted some clover/brassica, sprayed some more clover with Imox. Plus, have a couple shooters on the farm, didn't expect that after last years EHD. May be the year for my first Booner, if I don't let him age another year. There were scattered showers around when I was leaving town, we are due for some rain, it's no emergency, but my fresh seed and fert could use it. Not sure about you, but this is as dry as it's been all year, so far.

we’ve been dry but my neighbor just told me a thunderstorm is hitting now....

 

[swat1018]

Have you had good results with Imox on your clover this time of year? Everything I've seen on it says spray when the weeds are young. Thanks

It's probably not ideal, but I've had good luck. I always mow short then wait a day or 2, and hit it. I'm battling smart weed all the time, but in May there wasn't any in sight. Fast forward to August, and it's coming on.

 

[Bill]

Also please rain!
I drilled 4 acres of brassicas into a sad soybean plot. Also did an acre of buckwheat and oats because I was bored....

well my brassicas after bad beans was a bust also.




Pulled out all the stops today and threw a Hail Mary. Rye, oats, red clover, white clover, rape, radish, PTT

then I added Ice cream

soy beans and sunflowers at 120 lbs an acre. They won’t get to be more than sprouts but deer like sprouts....

O rain in the 10 day
but hey I’m trying.

 

[scott44]

Looks like a good "Hail Mary" mix

 

[H20fwler]

Rain has been a tough one here this summer too.
Have to try though!