Recent content by Ben.MN/WI

I collected some scion last night in SE MN and I'm sure it will be fine for grafting in a month or two. I'll just keep the scion in a ziploc bag in my garage fridge and it will be good to go.

You should find a way to buy that rooster a few hens!

Quail are cooler than doves, so I'd manage for quail. It sounds like that field might need a reset though if undesired grasses are taking over.

A deer density that high might explain why the disease spread so much faster in that area than other areas. It seems like an almost unbelievably high density though.

What are you pruning? I've never used any pruning sealants as trees seem to heal fine on their own even with massive wounds.

My son found one nice shed a week ago, which was surprising as most of the deer in our area moved out when our food ran out. I also planted some brassicas this year that weren't hit quite as hard as I expected. Normally they eat every portion sticking above ground, but this year a bunch of...

Did your place run out of food before the deer dropped their antlers? We had a ton of deer around in December and early January, but it ran out before the antlers dropped.

I don't have AO, but we have buckthorn here. Some declare war on it in an attempt to eradicate it, but I only fight it in specific locations. It is bad stuff that can out compete some native shrubs, but it makes excellent deer cover. In SE MN, you have great hunting if you have the thickest...

that's about 1/10 an acre if my math is right. Times 200 bushels/acre, you have 20 bushels of corn. Between the deer, turkeys, coons and blue jays, I'd say it lasts 2 weeks or less if there is no other corn nearby. If you are in an ag area where deer have a ton of food options, it might last...

My Wisconsin cabin has a $60 monthly fee to be hooked up to the system and most months I use less than $20 in electricity. It is irritating, but it is what it is.

That’s odd - is the water flowing out of that pipe now? I can’t tell from the picture if the water was coming from the pipe or the ground behind it. If the water is flowing out of the pipe, where is the water coming from? Must be a pump somewhere or using gravity somehow. Or maybe it...

Seed oats are usually cleaned before being bagged, but feed oats could have some weed seeds.

Oats might work as well to mix with clover seed, but I've never tried that myself.

It might be easier/cheaper to get a front ATV rack mounted spreader that works for small seed. I planted 8 acres of CRP with that setup, and it worked really well and you can easily watch the seed come out and adjust if necessary as it is mounted on the front rack.

Does your property have any areas currently defined as wetlands? I'd assume so given the cattails in the pictures, but that's not always the case. I know making any changes in defined wetlands is challenging, but there are some federal and state programs that might allow for improvement and...