Recent content by txbowman12

Thanks all for the advice, will probably take a blended approach. There’s a guy up there I can pay with a skid steer and a mulcher, so will probably use him to clear some winding trails into the thickets, take out as much as I can with that (only works up to about 6” trees), then selectively...

Bought a ~100 acre piece of land this spring in central KY. On a water resovoir lake, with limestone bedrock and good top soil (not row crop dirt but good enough for our purposes) Lots of eastern cedar, mixed with some hardwoods. Property is probably 35-40% fields, with the remainder woods...

Sorry, shouldn't type and think at the same time, I'm already challenged doing them one at a time! I have a sxs with a 4ft brush hog, and the packermaxx roller crimper. I've used the crimper before with great success, but I seeded prior to crimping, and everything got fairly mixed. Planting...

Spring planting is only about 60 days away for those of us down south. My spring plots are always extremely hit or miss, but have had good luck with the green cover seed summer browse pressure blends. It has a tendency to create a jungle of cover and deer only really use the edges. In a perfect...

I planted the browse pressure version (more sunn hemp less soybeans in the mix) by broadcasting and crimping over it with an atv crimper. Everything came up, but sunflowers and beans got eaten down quick.

Went back and found a pic of it before it got mowed down by the cows. This was 75 days after planting. Fawn for scale

Yes in Fayette county. Haven’t done any tests other than the initial soil test. But it went from an overgrazed over compacted sandy loam goat weed patch to rich black dirt with good fungal growth, and tons of insects, frogs, snakes and other critters. This year will be the true test. Shifted...

Plot is like 1.75 acres. I was super impressed with it, crimped in one pass and held up well to hog divots. Takes a while to do with the 4 foot width but wasn’t more than a couple of hours (plus it’s super satisfying laying the rye down) Before and after attached. Crazy amount of biomass. Got...

I planted summer release this spring into a 5' tall jungle of cereal rye. I broadcast and crimped the rye down on top of it with the packermax crimper. Results were impressive. Got timely rain, but not a ton of rain. The sorghum sudangrass was 5-6' tall across the board. Had multiple does living...

Interested in your thoughts between these two implements. I've been kicking around the idea of getting the packermaxx cultipacker / crimper combo. But saw a company that makes stubble rollers within a couple of hours from me. These are typically used in rice fields to make holes for duck...

Might try Sunn Hemp instead of the peas. Still a legume so will fix nitrogen. I broadcast sunn hemp and buckwheat in an area that had turnips and brassicas in the fall, and had been eaten to bare dirt. Well the rain chances evaporated and then 2 weeks later I got a shower. It all came up great...

Had good experiences from my feed store, hancock, and seedworld USA depending on who has what

Two more weeks of growth caught during golden hour.

Look at that small bush on the left disappearing! Pretty amazing what it can do once the soil temp breaks 65! Hit it with a few hundred pounds of nitrogen in late feb. Planning to leave it standing this summer to keep the goatweed at bay and provide fawning cover. Will plant the strip in the...