Recent content by Steve Oehlenschlager

WASTE of time and Money. Don't do it. Sure 1 in 40 times it might work. I have grown both for years. Alfalfa takes a ton of sunlight and grows so slow when little. You would end up with such a thin and spotty plot that why would you even bother? Who wants a thin alfalfa plot when its all...

The reason I said to mow it was to get it actively growing again. Then it is easier to kill by spraying. The taller and more mature....the harder to kill.

MOW it if you can!

Also have a blind that is about 15 years old and nothing was treated or painted. 93.56% rotten now.

We have a couple blinds built 22 years ago out of 100% treated plywood and lumber. They were all painted at first and never again. They are still solid. We did put Tin over the roof to avoid ponding of water.

You need at least 100 of actual nitrogen per acre. Can put 1/2 down now and the other half down in a month or so. So you need about 225-300 pounds of urea per acre. Especially if you have a good seed take.

I have a similar place where an old hay stack once stood ( 40 years ago) before it rotted away to oblivion. The organic matter is so high that it has been a nightmare trying to get something to grow there. It is almost like peat...but it is not. The top organic material dries out so fast the...

2 years ago I found 12 shed on my land in one day. I found 9 of them on one sugar beet field of .2 acres. I have 13 acres of crops. You decide what they like the best!

I love this stuff so much I keep an extra years supply of seed on hand in the freezer just in case I can't get it next year. Ed S in Michigan might have some left. I really would like to plant 5 or 6 acres some year and see if I get any to make it until spring.

I plant several acres of RR Beets every year. Damn deer eat EVERY bit by early December before I can put cattle in the field. That really sucks. NOTHING Beats Sugar Beets. I have been planting them for as long as they have been available.

The original harvest 37 years ago was done in the winter. You really need a lot of sun to get a great regeneration of popple. There were just enough oaks back then to hold them back except for a few veins of thick popple. Everything I have ever read says that if you don't cut the other trees...

One nice thing about our mixed forest land is that once you get much needed sun light to the forest floor....all the native berry bushes go nuts. They are all there. They just need the sun to get going. When next spring comes along.....there will be flowers everywhere in the woods.

The just started logging last week. I took a bunch of pictures on Tuesday. They are about 1/3 done. I will go back 2 more times to get more shots as they progress. I will post a bunch of pictures then. Looks weird now but I know it will be good in the end. On a side note Virtually zero...

Went from seeing maybe 1 or 2 deer per sit to maybe 5 to 7 average now. Deer are fatter and yearling bucks sometimes are small 6's vs spikes or forkhorns. Deer on our property year round now. Years ago once the snow came the deer were non existent on some pieces of our land. Now that land...

I used a Nikon D800 with 300mm 2.8 lens.......Its top quality lens that really give you the smoking great shots! But oh god are they spendy!