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I kill all of them I can. They tend to have several stems and thorns which make it difficult. They cast alot of shade. I am okay with a couple of them but kill most in the long run. They are not fun to deal with. I do not personally consider them to be much benefit to wildlife. But, I know...

100 swamp white oak, 25 black cherry, 25 Chickasaw plum, and 25 hazelnut. Picked them all up this afternoon and got 50 in the ground before dark. Hope to finish tomorrow. I am tubing 75 of them.

Great stuff there. Thanks for sharing. I am always thinking about stuff like that. I wonder if diesel fuel and their "bark oil" are similar enough to get the same results? I hit 3 very large honey suckle with a low dose of triclopyr and diesel fuel early last spring to compare effectiveness...

I've owned 3 small (40 to 47 acre) hunting farms in different parts of the county since 2006. There are lots of neighbors touching these 3 places combined. There hasn't been a single acre of any neighbor that has been for sale in the time I've owned them. And I see nothing in the near future...

Midwestern Illinois rec ground will bring $5500 to $6500 right now and I've seen at least one place bring way more. Virtually no inventory. I bought 47 acres in November 2019 with 17 tillable for $3300 an acre by comparison. I bought a 40 with 12 acres tillable back in 2006 for $2600 an acre...

I terminated a really nice rye field in the summer by mowing it as high as I could. I then sprayed the field with gly one time and broadcasted turnips, rape, and radishes in the thick thatch that was left. I ran a cultipacker over it and called it good. No amendments. We got a real nice rain...

Okay, so I get bored easily and don't really like to watch TV. That usually has me coming up with dumb ideas. Sooo, I live in the middle of the woods and have deer and turkey in my yard all the time. There are 2 fawns laying out my bedroom window now in fact. I have this small prairie remnant...

The plan would be to follow with brassicas in a rotation. Just trying to park the disk more and more.

So then that brings me to my next question which has probably been covered before but what chemical(s) is best to kill red clover being used for cover ctlrop and fixing nitrogen? My limited experience with it would suggest gly alone or maybe just one shot of gly won't cut it. I appreciate the...

Thank you.

Do you get the same or similar benefit of nitrogen from clover that is chemically terminated and left on top to decay vs discing it under to incorporate?

The suggestion to bury and acorn or 2 in the tubes next to the perceived dead seedling is a good one. That would be easy to do provided I find viable seed this year. The problem with marking the tubes and replanting seedlings is that I am replanting before leaf out so I just don't know for...

Yeah, no mulch. It is hard enough and expensive enough to tube and spray a few hundred. Mulch would do me in. I've had pretty good luck up until now. What little showers we've had this year just skirted me and it was a very dry fall and winter before that. I guess I will mark the dead ones...

I have been planting DNR seedlings for 4 years now. I've tubed several hundred of them. This past spring I put 100 red, bur, and swamp white oaks in tubes. I did my second round of the year spraying for weeds around all of them yesterday. I'd say the 100 I planted this past spring have 75% kill...

Around here shingle oak generally holds leaves the longest by a long way.