Foggy's Deertopia Proving Grounds - Happenings

[Foggy47]

After about two months with very little rain.....my plots were getting browsed to the dirt with what little crops were doing well. (some of my shady areas still had some decent brassica up until two weeks ago).

Anyway.....we got a quarter inch last Thursday.....then a few 1/10" rainfalls over the weekend.......and another 1/3" inch last night. I noticed on Saturday that my plots had perked up a bit with the rain.....and in some of my better plots the clover was again growing and so way the winter rye. Just maybe the warm temps here this week and the now wet ground will amount to enough to get through opener with some food in the plots.

One can hope.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

After about two months with very little rain.....my plots were getting browsed to the dirt with what little crops were doing well. (some of my shady areas still had some decent brassica up until two weeks ago).

Anyway.....we got a quarter inch last Thursday.....then a few 1/10" rainfalls over the weekend.......and another 1/3" inch last night. I noticed on Saturday that my plots had perked up a bit with the rain.....and in some of my better plots the clover was again growing and so way the winter rye. Just maybe the warm temps here this week and the now wet ground will amount to enough to get through opener with some food in the plots.

One can hope.

Can relate man!

It's like a clover/rye fairway at my place with how they've been keeping it mowed. Good luck this coming weeekend!

 

[matinc]

Foggy I am still hoping my rye will germinate from labor day weekend that I broadcasted. Ughhh

 

[Foggy47]

Can relate man!

It's like a clover/rye fairway at my place with how they've been keeping it mowed. Good luck this coming weeekend!

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Yep....same situation. Seems this rain may help a bit.....but the pics I am getting are all at night now.

 

[sandbur]

These little rains did perk things up a bit or at least washed the dust off!

 

[Bill]

Where I drilled rye it's up. Where I broadcast into bean is none existent. Hopefully yesterdays rain kicks it in.

 

[matinc]

Bill how long ago did you drill it in the beans.

 

[Bill]

Bill how long ago did you drill it in the beans.

No I broadcast into the beans. Where I drilled was a sprayed field. September 20th. Hopefully the rye can outgrow the other grasses.

 

[SD51555]

I like your odds Foggy. I think we both got good germinating rains when we needed them. The deer cleaned off my YSC in the fall and it came full force next year anyway.

It’s that time of year class A and class B forages are easily exhausted. From what I can see from my ground blinds, they’ve taken 80+% of what I’ve got, and they started on everything earlier this year to boot.


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[SD51555]

I’m still way behind on subsoil moisture. I should have fall water in my well, and it’s bone dry.


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[Foggy47]

This just in.....it appears the rut is on and chasing tail.......that's positive.

 

[matinc]

SD please clarify class a and b forages for me.

 

[Foggy47]

I think I discovered a way to drain a shitty swamp area I have.....where nothing grows but phragmites. Just gotta run a 100 yard trench or French drain......and I can reclaim 15 + acres of land back. My grandson is coming this weekend for hunting. He is a civil engineer that works on this type of thing every day.....mostly on ag land. Gotta show him my idea.

I think my idea is "real".....but he will know. Kinda excited about this.....and wonder why it didn't occur to me sooner? Duh.

 

[matinc]

Foggy curious on what your doing with this area and is the end gain worth the cost.

 

[Foggy47]

Foggy curious on what your doing with this area and is the end gain worth the cost.

time will tell

 

[matinc]

Foggy I had this ditch put in to drain water. Maybe ths idea will help you as I said I will be blowing the leaves out this year so this spring water can get out.

 

[SD51555]

SD please clarify class a and b forages for me.

A forages: most desirable, first choice in most neighborhoods. Alfalfa, soybeans, peas, radishes.

B forages: follows the A’s. Clover, chicory, plantain, ragweed, jap millet, sorghum.

C forages: cereal grains, pumpkins. These are the 2 am girls. You don’t want names, you don’t want phone numbers, and you’d prefer to go to her place so you don’t have to ask her to leave out the back before morning.

With enough trial and error, you can time your deer preferences with your hunt time and not need an infinite amount of acres of plots if you don’t have them.


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[matinc]

SD. Sure hope I don't find you with a class C girl. Lmaoffg

 

[Foggy47]

Foggy curious on what your doing with this area and is the end gain worth the cost.

This is an old post.....but the answer to your question is........The large swamp divides my property into two peices and I cannot access the smaller section without going around the swamp. The deer love to travel a route that takes them off my land.....onto my neighbors land .....before getting to my land again. Of course my neighbor has a big box blind there.....and picks off any deer that takes that route.

Draining a portion of this swamp would allow the deer the needed cover to remain on my land and better our deer herd. You kinda gotta be there.

 

[matinc]

Foggy have you and your grandson developed or implemented a plan yet. After rereading the post I get and think it's a great plan.