Recent content by Stubborn1VT

I'm using winter rye, buckwheat and sunflowers to break up clay soil and add organic matter.

It's not hard to look at the mining company and its parent company and find out who their biggest customer is. If you want to.

Allowing a Chilean mining company into the Boundary Waters so they can sell metals/minerals to China doesn't seem very America First.

"Frost seeded" a wetter section of log road, then took the leaves and pine needles off a small woods plot with a rake and tarp. I'll hit it with some lime, clover and chicory seed later this morning.

Years ago I was sitting on a big beech log, yelping at some birds on the other side of the property line. I was mid-morning, and I was just messing around to get them to gobble, knowing they weren't going to leave the pasture they were in. A male bobcat climbed up on the end of the log, about...

Frost seeded about a 1/2 acre on a permission piece. This is the second year of doing this in 3 spots. One took really well, one so-so, and one not at all. Go figure!

5' Land pride on a 32HP Kubota. The brush hog does a bit cleaner job than others I have run. The stump jumper isn't as heavy duty as I would like/ expect. Otherwise, I'm really happy with it. I do 100 =/- acres a year.

Got out in the woods with the tractor today. Dropped 2 more BIG soft maples and a poplar for regeneration. Worked up 2 "loads" of soft maple for firewood. I have a 3PH carry-all that I fill, plus the tractor bucket. Nice day in our little woodlot. No deer tracks, just a pair of coyotes.

Soft maple is about half of what I use for firewood to heat our little house. It doesn't last as well as hard maple or ironwood, but it's what I prefer to start a fire with.

In an open area, I agree with Bigbore. I think of deer like bass or crappies. They're going to hang near structure. Easiest solution IMO is a well spaced line of cedars. Of course, I can't see your situation, so I'm guessing.

We just had a warmup and the snow melted a bunch. The 3 bucks who were at my house every day have returned, and picked up another spike along the way. I need to get out and knock down some more soft (red) maple for them. I need to put a camera on some of the tops. This is on the 6 huntable...

I dropped some soft (red) maple here on our 12 acres, but it seems like the deer left to feed on winter wheat across the street that the farmer planted as a cover crop.

Could be just the pictures you chose, but neither the red or white Milo looked very mature. That's what happened to my Red Milo during the drought. Grew ok, but mine went in late due to wet clay and got frosted early and never made seed. Something to consider.

Ah, didn't read the "cut" in that sentence. My bad. I would mow some test strips and see how they respond. If the Milo needs to be cut down before you plant the next crop, I might go ahead and do it all now if the conditions are favorable.

I'm a "less is more" type guy. If they're in it, I'd leave them to it.