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Thanks for the input guys. I think I had plenty of days to get through maturity, they honestly looked twice as good as any ag beans locally until this down turn. If I do beans again I'll have to try something a bit different. Maybe I'd plant two sections an ag bean and a forage pulling the...

Planted soybeans for the first time this year. 1 acre of Game changer forage beans next to 1.5 acres corn, I understand the forage beans won't put on as many pods an ag bean would and while I planned to e-fence (also my first attempt at fencing as well) I wanted the best of both worlds since I...

Looks like corn and beans were both a success on planting and the electric fence seems to be doing an excellent job deterring deer. Outside the fence the corn is heavily browsed and the beans are chewed to the ground inside it's doing great. We got a few missed spots and wider than we wanted...

Another experiment this year. Got my hands on a JD 2 row and tried my hand at planting 1.5 acres corn and 1 acres forage beans, this wildly wet spring made planting difficult. Soil kept clumping behind the machine and not properly backfilling the trench to cover seed so I ended up running the...

Remember these agencies make decisions based on biology and not $$$ Jokes aside did they propose these changes and open it up to any public forum or dialogue? Can't imagine this is a well supported move Sent from my Pixel 7 Pro using Tapatalk

How big an area? How much sun does it get? Sent from my Pixel 7 Pro using Tapatalk

I've been exploring and learning the public on the north side of 6 Sent from my Pixel 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Got a much needed cabin weekend in and with snow melted we did some family shed hunting. I didn't find anything from the 3 better bucks that were hanging around post season but we had a great overall haul scooping up 9 sheds from younger bucks that clearly appreciated the late season food...

That was the very best of multiple places I put it but it grew shockingly well overall. I did about 40-50# per acre of 17-17-17 just to get it started. That particular field plot is actually a bit of a struggle to best utilize. Its excellent soil but not really a good location to hunt over and...

6pt Cultipacker behind a tractor, it folded over very well without a crimper. Sent from my Pixel 7 Pro using Tapatalk

I planted my buckwheat June 3rd and June 18 planted 2 weeks apart because I wanted to terminate at different times for my fall plantings, the earlier planted buckwheat I did throw, roll and spray with brassicas, oats, and clovers with brassica being the primary seed at the end of July and the...

So these were new first time plots, carved out with a dozer then planted before green up without herbicide. We did solocal fast lime, 6-24-24 fertilizer, seeded clover blend, oats and peas late April (it was a cold spring still getting frosts in that time frame). The peas were a non factor, my...

Been some time but I'll update the thread with my food plot activities going into fall with some details about the planting and layout. Probably more for me to look back on next year but might have some interest to others to stumble across. The first is my barn field. Which was a weedy hay...

I'm very pleased with the 1 year transformation of this location. Original pictures is from March 2022 when I first walked the property pre purchase, I saw the potential of this little clearing deep in some thick cover on 3 sides but yet still had pretty easy access on the other. April 2023 I...

I wanted to follow up on my antidotal two week evidence. I'd say the residual did affect the seed or seedlings and some seeds more than others. First, I'll qualify weather conditions. After seeding we got immediate rain day of seeding, the following day after dry off I sprayed and that was...