Recent content by Phil

It almost feels terrible not letting the deer eat the green leaves all summer. However I like stockpiling food for that special time of year deer season. I roll up the fence the weekend before the season with electrical cord rollers so it won't tangle for next year's use. I do strips so I...

Brassicas I believe will produce more tonnage. I know there was a calculation online that talked about brassica tonnage. Soybeans would be 140,000 seeds planted per acre, approximately a fifty pound bag times approximately 30 pods per plant plant with average of 3 beans per pod. The beans...

8 or so deer and 25 turkeys leveled my bean field here in Vermont in a little over one month. Last year with apples and no drought the beans lasted two plus months. I 3d fence my bean fields all summer and unleash them the week before the season. I use the tractor supply fiberglass poles...

I have had a very positive experience with the 3d fencing of my soybeans also. Your plots look wonderful. Standing Soybeans late season are simply amazing.

What are you doing to minimize tillage? I was thinking of buying disc harrow from everything attachments. I'm curious what you are doing to minimize tillage. As for the Tractor Supply tiller I don't think it's built as good as the King Kutter. If you look at it it looks nearly identical...

So approximately 8 years ago I purchased a tractor supply Tarter tiller. This was so I could til approximately 3 acres of food plot in a year. The soil here in Vermont is very Rocky and rough that's, why there's not much farming here anymore. The first day I used the tiller we literally lowered...

MA Flatlander, your soil in Chelsea is Sandy loan and among some of the best I have ever planted. I had a garden in Chelsea and had amazing production. The old timers call your soil profile "Tunbridge" soil. My buddy's grandfather talked about how great that soil is. My buddy got a soil...

My sugar beets got pounded, I need your fence Jer. Did you do a 3d fence? Scarecrow?

My sugar beet experiment ended when my deer leveled every plant I had. Ed Spinazola wasn't kidding when he said to protect them. My question is will these sugar beet compete with the record Apple crop in Vermont this year. Jer they sure seem to grow slow, it amazes me how slow they seem to grow.

Oasis is the only variety i have tried from welters. I am very impressed with the usage, so planted even more on my property. I feel like it gets hit just as hard as my kopu 2 and alice, if not better.

Does anyone know where I can find generic gly resistant soybeans? I swear I saw them advertised in a Rural King sales flyer for 25 bucks or something like that. I think generic gly resistant beans would be very economical for me.

My plan is to try them and see what happens. I have zero acorns, beechnut, or AG for miles. I just hope we don't have a bumper apple year next year. When we could bait the deer would seek out the Macintosh apples specifically. My hope is the sugar content in the beets is addictive to them...

Interesting to hear, I feel like this will happen. They seem to go after apples intensely, the plots only shine when snow hits. Thanks for your input. I wish I had more acreage for soybeans. I did corn one year and was stressed out daily with bear and coon destroying it. I figured beets...