Recent content by farmlegend

You kind of threw me with that one. Around these parts, "winterberry" is Ilex verticillata. It's a common wetland shrub that is most conspicuous in the winter, when it is devoid of foliage but covered with its scarlet fruit. I've never noted deer to browse on it very much at all, even in...

Which was precisely the problem of my spring planting of a cover crop mix. Rain, rain, more rain, I still had some ponded spots into July. Most of my seeds got waterlogged or the plants just died. Never saw sunflower, buckwheat, Sunn Hemp, turnips/brassicas, grazing corn, safflower, radish...

Yessir, I have clayish soils myself, and many many common food plot and cover crop species aren't worth a damn on my dirt. Among them is chicory. Experimenting with a couple varieties of plantain this year, will report back my results. Planted some in August last year in concert with other...

Wow. This is literally the first hopeful thing I have seen involving ash trees and the Emerald Ash Borer. My farm resides about 60 miles WSW of EAB ground zero. Of the three major hardwood groups in the woodlots on my farm and in the neighborhood - oak, maple, and ash - ash was the most...

I'm envious that your county has a 606NT for rent. My county's available-for-rent drill requires 90+HP.

Where'd you find the seed?

Good show. My potential sources to spread ag gypsum on my nine acres of compacted multi-species plots have all dried up. I did throw down some 40# bag product in a few spots about a month ago, mixed in with some miscellaneous clover seed to load in a bit of N. Not up to doing a...

Many years experience with Welter and Alseed for seed. Quality and efficiency marks are high for both. Greencover has been excellent, have done business with them two seasons. Keystone Pest Solutions gets high marks for chemicals. Had good experiences with Ernst, Merit. Many years experience...

Casual anecdote time. My state began to allow straight walled cartridge rifles a few years ago in both the "muzzleloader" season and also the general firearms season in a region of the state (Michigan's southern lower peninsula, where 60% of hunting effort is applied and 75% of the deer herd...

For me in Michigan, I'd want zone-specific antler restrictions and shorter firearms seasons for bucks. Between our sixteen day general firearms season, the ten day December "muzzleloader season" (in which straight walled rifle cartridges are now allowed), and our two day youth hunt, we have 28...

Yeah, I get it, but they can't make regs just for the outlier passionate guys like us. I'd be happy to enjoy myself out at camp without a buck tag(no need to reduce doe tags in my area) and work to make for better hunting experiences in the future, but too many of the masses would just stay...

Same. First grew PTT 20 years ago, and still throw some seed out in mixes most years. Have never verified a deer munching on a bulb. They will nibble on the greens once the weather gets cold, but only nibbles.

Amen to that. At my place, I spend a ridiculous number of hours each year keeping my access trails wide enough to get my modest tractor through. Last season I dropped over two grand on hiring a guy with a forestry mulcher to widen spots I wasn't ambitious enough to tackle.

Thanks!

My recollection it was 2#/a. A one pound bag was good for 1/2a. The best plots I did were seeded with about 1.25# SB and 30# RR soys, rototilled, broadcast, lightly tilled again, cultipacked, and two subsequent RU applications.