Recent content by farmlegend

About 6-8 years ago, I had some red milo seed. Because I had the time, I planted a strip of it about 80 yards long by 10 yards wide, to divide off one of my perennial clover food plots. I planted the milo ridiculously late, a real hail mary at my latitude, probable very early August. As luck...

Curious to see how your sugar beets perform. I grew RR sugar beets for a half dozen years or so before my bootleg seed source dried up. Of all the things I ever grew for deer, the sugar beets were the most magnetic draw. One thing about them I found is they were sensitive to seeding rates...

I've grown milo a number of times. No idea which performs best, but red varieties score highest on aesthetics. 😁

My hunch is you're right. This is the mini-April 2. Interest rate/tariff fears spiking.

Yeah, I should have bought one like yours last year, when there were a few nice used ones on the market in the high teens within a reasonable distance, but I wasn’t quite ready. Nowadays, no used 606NT’s out there and the dealers are firm on their pricing at nearly 30k. If nothing shows up I...

The expensive lessons tend to be the ones you don’t forget.😉 This one wasn’t cheap, as I hired out the planting and paid good dough for a custom seed mix. What’s in the plot now is marestail, red clover. and an astonishing amount of boston plantain. YBSC is coming on in places, and there’s a...

Tossing it on the whole thing. As mentioned in the original post, nine acres.

Worst weed infestation I ever experienced was with an August burn. Seeded shortly after, canada thistle overwhelmed it, with an assist from Curly Dock.

FWIW - I don't believe I've ever seen brassicas UNDERplanted. With good prep and growing conditions, you can get great results with amazingly low seeding rates.

If I'm understanding this right - when the grasses sort of "peak out"(I'm imagining coolseason grasses), broadcast large seeds into it (I'm thinking peas/oats or whatever), and then, at some point, "rolling over it" with a roller or cultipacker? I can think of some good applications of...

Well, I bought 20 56# bags. As to timing, probably 8/9-10 or so. Have some other stuff I’ll be dumping along with it - some daikon radish, crimson clover, YBSC, hairy and crown vetch, endure chicory, and whatever else is laying around the barn. Shooting for “just before a good rain” LOL...

I’m thinking the clethodim did it. And all of the seeds went through the big hopper. Small seeds probably too deep and seeded too heavily. He did run out of seed sooner than calculated and had to substitute some of his own proprietary mix. Need my own drill so I can employ two seed boxes...

Southern Michigan. In late May, I had my trusted contractor drill in my diverse cover crop mix on the nine acres of my cover crop ground. This project is in Year 4. This was the first time I planted without a total burndown, as I want to gradually reduce herbicide use. I did spray one pint per...

Got it, thanks. Gets confusing with red clover, which is usually treated as a biennial, though it can also be considered a short lived perennial. Red clover pops up pronto after planted.