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Nice. I'll add some chicory to my wet soil areas.

1. Are they not sensitive to acidic soil? 2. Cages. 3. That doesn't give you a chance to amend the soil. I would dig a hole, mix in a bunch of barn lime and some lawn lime with the dirt. If you spread lime uphill from the tree, I'd be worried it would just wash down the slope rather than...

Of course they do. All the elites compare notes.

If it's a new tractor, is the switch not electronic with buttons inside the cab? I would check the manual. It might point you right to where it is.

They're allowed to do insider trading. One of my strategies this year is setting aside some cash to piggyback me of their trades. Anything they buy related to microprocessors, metals, or drones, I buy.

Does chicory do ok in wet soils, too?

Ah, wet areas are a conundrum. I am planting mine with annuals. I'll get native willows and ROD in there soon enough. That spot is in Canada, and I don't want to plant anything foreign that could potentially get out of hand. It's not a priority at the moment. It needs to be drained a bit...

I'm in exactly the same situation. There's a ditch where giant ragweed would help screen the field from the road and choke out the teasel that has formed a monoculture there. Apparently giant ragweed seed is a superior for birds. I would really like to get quail or pheasant established there...

I get him and Shaggy confused. I googled Afroman. He's no national treasure, but it seems like he is fighting the good fight. I didn't read in detail, and this is the first I'm hearing of the whole fiasco. I'm glad he won the libel case. I'd be really interested to know why and how the...

Jeez, your place is overwhelmed with it. I have patches of marestail (Erigeron canadensis) like that. I don't even bother with those areas. It's native, and I'm taking SD's approach in assuming there is something wrong with the soil that.needs fixed. If it persists, I'll make a plan to...

For a native food plot in Ohio, I would start with giant ragweed and native sunflowers as an edible high-protein screen. It would be planted relatively sparse, but wide. I want the deer to feel secure but not trapped, and I want to cover my approach and exit. Wherever I have a stand, I would...

The only sorghum alcohol I've had is baijiu, and I hated it. But rum from sugar beets would be interesting to try.

If I had a whole field that was a blank canvas, and the equipment to start from zero, I would nuke the whole thing until it was completely dead. Then I would sow the most diverse mix of forbs I could manage to put together, along with 2lbs per acre of switchgrass, and I would plant native...

Manicured, cover-free plots require expensive equipment and constant maintenance, and it's not what deer prefer. I'm going for plots I can plant and then ignore for a few years. Then when I come back to them, I can either spot spray, or nuke the whole thing and start over. I want good cover...

If I were a young person, that's where I would go. Then I would buy myself a used Toyota for the commute and find some podcasts I like. I'd spend the next few years investing for retirement and throwing any leftover cash at my mortgage. After a few years of working hard and paying down my...