Recent content by neonomad

To clarify, if I let it sit all summer is it dropping 500 lbs of viable seed into that same plot, or does that not seem to occur? The benefit of the summer buckwheat is if terminated in a timely manner I know exactly what seed I’m putting in the ground July - Sept.

I’m sure this has been addressed multiple times, I may have even asked the question, received a reply, and forgotten…. but I’m trying to reduce my time invested, and the over summer buckwheat step of course requires more effort. For those that let the rye / grains plot go all summer (which...

There’s of course a limitless list of things you could do… Without even getting into timber stand improvement, IMO some food plots for early season, and some food plots for late season are relatively easy. Doesn’t necessarily require any heavy equipment, just some potential soil amendment...

I shouldn’t even write this, it’s bad juju and I generally try to speak little of anything that’s actually working… but I think we’re in the fourth season now of a group of eight cameras out in the woods. For some of them in the sunniest areas the plastic is getting a little brittle and...

I grew up on a farm in northeast Ohio, dad didn’t hunt but my cousin took me once and I was hooked. I started pursuing it on my own, bought a bow, and I used to go sit on a large tree that had split and one side toppled over. The split created a flat section of splintered trunk that I could...

I used the term doe factory to trigger some responses, haha, whether it’s real or not it does pretty quickly describe the possible issue. Our place is as much a buck factory as a doe factory, there’s a bunch of both sexes, I’d just like the production line set up for the occasional rack to get...

It’s a thing, and it doesn’t get better.

Naw, this farmer mentioned it years ago and hasnt mentioned it since. He’s a good dude. If he did mention it I’d probably agree with him, I can see the browse his beans are taking.

Yes agree I think I’m losing my mind, when I read the original post I swear I also saw a forecast picture included that was hot and dry, but that must’ve been a different post. Sorry thought this was an army worm / dry soil post, but it’s just an army worm post, my mistake.

Interesting and encouraging, and I do agree all things considered many properties mine included need more doe harvest. Who knows might even make lock down during the rut a little less noticeable.

Thanks all, I don’t believe we have a too many mouths to feed issue, right now it’s simply just one deer four years old or older, an age class thing. But yes the season is young, and this is just one year… and it’s certainly easier to wait and see than trying to get some nuisance permits. It...

While back the farmer who farms our tillable told me that in the early 2000s he and his son took something like 30 deer out of our fields on nuisance permits, between us and the neighbors let’s call it 200 acres and 60 tillable. My dad had never told me about this!… anywhoo farmer said in the...

I saw a decent forecast here in NE Ohio, Monday hung with the family then at 4 PM drove the 1.5 hours to the property to get the layer of grains down - doing triticale and had some left over wheat and oats and a bit of brassicas. Got home at midnight but the seed was on the dirt; today we got...

Yes I could mow it or roll it down and lightly disk at 90 degrees, just interested to see what the weeds do between that and fall planting time… probably a month and a half or so.