Recent content by farmlegend

Pretty sure. If it did, it bested the turnips, radishes, YBSC, vetch, and other fall-2024 seed planted along with it which never showed up. Frostseeded Endure Chicory also grew, but wasn’t as prolific as the plantain. Freaky how we had two consecutive really poor fall growing seasons. I...

Update - Can report that forage plantain frostseeds wonderfully on my dirt. It came up nicely everywhere I cast it last March. Fall plantings have been total disasters - but then again, the last two fall growing seasons have been epically poor for everything else I planted also. Zero...

My local Great Plains dealer wanted nearly 30k, including the weight brackets and small seed box. So I shopped the Kubota dealer one county over, whom I've done good business with in the past (My RTV1120V, multiple accessories and implements), they're a LP dealer, roughly 3k less for the same...

My farm has roughly five linear miles of access trails. It took a number of years to develop the entire trail "system", and a variety of methods were employed. In open spaces, simply bush-hogging. In wooded/brushy zones, some dozer work was engaged. Over seasonally wet spots, culverts were...

It's December 17. Snow has covered the ground here since Thanksgiving. And here I am at home, searching for this thread that I had in my memory bank, and successfully finding it. Just ordered a five-pack of 3/16" x 2" roll pins off of Amazon. All because I ordered a new Land Pride 606NT...

Good suggestions. Worth remembering that we all have different soils, climates, you name it, and it's a great idea to experiment a bit with cereal grains. I grow cereal rye, oats, and winter wheat every single year, and have played around with triticale in recent years. Have never tried...

This has been the second consecutive disastrous fall plotting season for me. From my late August planting, I didn't get a consequential rain until after we'd had our first hard frost. Had a couple showers that whole time that each threw down 0.3-0.4", but temps went right back up into the...

I have very fussy deer that aren't impressed by brassicas, turnips, winter peas, radishes, and others. But my deer devour alsike clover. I've used it for over 20 years. Establishes easily by frostseeding. For wet soil, it's a winner. Here's some deer on alsike last Saturday afternoon. Shot...

I’m in southern Michigan. All that Great Lakes air swirling around, it’s customarily markedly cloudier than most parts of the country. And for the last six weeks you’d swear we were in high desert. Skies clear and as blue as you’d see in the mountain west. Day after day. I’ve experienced...

I spent some time yesterday looking at my files of trail cam photos from prior years. Damn, those plots were lush and green in those normal rainfall years.

Getting ridiculous. 11 acres of fall plantings pretty much a bust. Some rain moved through this past week, and all but a trace of it missed me. A buddy ten miles away got over an inch. Foodplotting meets the Old Testament.

Rye seed spilled outside my barn a month ago. In some years it would have sprouted and be 3” tall by now. Nothing brings on drought more reliably than seed in the ground.🤣

Most of my 15a of plots is clayish loam. Some silt loam. Biggest project is 9a of mostly sandy loam that was highly degraded and compacted as a result of max-tillage rowcropping; I’m in year four of the reclamation. My tractor is a JD 990, 41hp, 4WD with loaded R1 tires. Hopefully it can...

Depends on circumstance and what sort of vegetation you’re dealing with. With the frequency of these August-September-October dry spells in recent years, I’m getting a bad attitude toward the investment in these fall planted plots. This time I’m not going to bother with another seed dump...

Tend to agree. Even with a good chunk of mowed residue, I’m thinking a good two rain events within 10 days of planting, minimum, maybe more if it’s hot and sunny the rest of the time. This is shaping up as two consecutive years of miserable throw-and-mow August-Septembers in my neighborhood...