Dukslayr
5 year old buck +
Well, as usual I didn’t have the time I needed to do the plot prep I wanted to do, and I ended up with 1 day to try and get some seed in the ground. As some of you know I had my farmer plant 3.5ish acres of beans and around 4.5 acres of corn. The corn is rocking. The beans have been heavily pressured and haven’t gotten past shin high. I had three plots I wanted to plant this fall: overseed the bean plot, renovate a 1.75 acre old clover plot, and plant 4 acre sunflower/dove field that missed planting this year. My intent is as follows:
3.5 acre Bean field overseed: provide something through the fall for the deer and get a cover crop in for no tilling a crop (probably my corn) into this plot next year. Planted mostly winter wheat with a little bit of groundhog radish (2 # per acre) and a few turnips (1# total).
1.75 acre clover plot renovation: this was a grass/clover plot when I bought the farm a couple years ago. I’ve basically just mowed it a couple times a summer and the clover has spread well. I wanted to get some more clover going in it. Planted WW, some turnips, GHFR and a 2.5 acre bag of WI clover that’s been sitting in the shop for 2 years...hoping some of it germinates to help boost the clover.
4.5 acre sunflower field: We didn’t get the sunflowers planted this year. My farmer mowed and baled this field once this year then killed and turned it over about a month and a half ago. This is a field that’s been in pasture for 20+ years that we drilled sunflowers into last year. Planted mostly WW with the rest of my radishes, turnips and WI clover.
I had to “plant” directly into everything that was standing since I didn’t get it sprayed earlier. The farmer is coming in behind me and spraying tomorrow or Saturday. I also didn’t have time to try to calibrate all the various seed rates so I just used my wheat rate and mixed everything in the large seed box. We will see what happens but ultimately it looked like it metered they mixed seed well. Whether I get good germination is another story. I’ll post back after the farmer sprays and we get done rain...if we get rain.
** the pics are only of the planting of the sunflower field. Not sure what all grew up in it but I was actually able too get to the soil pretty well. Whatever was growing there grew waist high in about a month and a half. A lot of laid down fairly well...not sure if that will hurt or help with the spraying.
3.5 acre Bean field overseed: provide something through the fall for the deer and get a cover crop in for no tilling a crop (probably my corn) into this plot next year. Planted mostly winter wheat with a little bit of groundhog radish (2 # per acre) and a few turnips (1# total).
1.75 acre clover plot renovation: this was a grass/clover plot when I bought the farm a couple years ago. I’ve basically just mowed it a couple times a summer and the clover has spread well. I wanted to get some more clover going in it. Planted WW, some turnips, GHFR and a 2.5 acre bag of WI clover that’s been sitting in the shop for 2 years...hoping some of it germinates to help boost the clover.
4.5 acre sunflower field: We didn’t get the sunflowers planted this year. My farmer mowed and baled this field once this year then killed and turned it over about a month and a half ago. This is a field that’s been in pasture for 20+ years that we drilled sunflowers into last year. Planted mostly WW with the rest of my radishes, turnips and WI clover.
I had to “plant” directly into everything that was standing since I didn’t get it sprayed earlier. The farmer is coming in behind me and spraying tomorrow or Saturday. I also didn’t have time to try to calibrate all the various seed rates so I just used my wheat rate and mixed everything in the large seed box. We will see what happens but ultimately it looked like it metered they mixed seed well. Whether I get good germination is another story. I’ll post back after the farmer sprays and we get done rain...if we get rain.
** the pics are only of the planting of the sunflower field. Not sure what all grew up in it but I was actually able too get to the soil pretty well. Whatever was growing there grew waist high in about a month and a half. A lot of laid down fairly well...not sure if that will hurt or help with the spraying.
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