Poll: Stuff you want, but can't get locally?
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S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
I can easily get my hands on most anything. Last year I couldn't get a specific variety of winter pea or awnless barley
SD51555
5 year old buck +
You must be driving distance to Albert Lea I imagine?
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
Yes and no
Albert Lea is about 100 miles but the co op I order seed from is 5 miles away. They get all of their seed from Albert Lea. I try to plan ahead so I have the seed when it’s planting time and I don’t get charged shipping. Awnless winter barley hasn’t come in yet but there is still plenty of time.
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j-bird
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I live in farm country....I can pretty much get anything I want. I can't be choosy at times if I want a specific cultivar but for the most part...it's just deer food so it's not a big deal. I have access to just about anything you could possibly want to plant for crops or forage for animals and the same goes for fertilizer and chemical as well....the thing I don't have....is DEER! That's what happens when a square mile of land here is at least 75% grain field.....ain't much room for the critters. I will be honest .....I have no idea if I can get gypsum or not....mush less if it's "affordable". I do know I don't have a local Gypsum Pimp.....the only one of those I am aware of is way up north of me!
USG? One near here, too. https://www.usg.com/content/usgcom/...icultural-gypsum-products.html#search-results
yoderjac
5 year old buck +
I can get anything locally if I really want it. The coop will order anything I want. The issue become the price. There are things I can get much less expensively mail order than having the coop order them. Welter pays 1/2 the shipping on some things. A couple years ago, Hancock had sunn hemp discounted with free shipping. This year, they pulled the free shipping from the 50 lb bags and the coop was less expensive. I just ordered Interline from Rural King. Even with shipping it was significantly less expensive than Liberty at the local coop. Durana was another thing I could get from Harvey at Poudre Valley for much less than the coop.
If prices are close, I buy from my coop but when they vary significantly with shipping factored in, I'll order on-line.
Cereal grains are inexpensive per pound and planted at a high rate. It makes absolutely no sense for me to buy those and have them shipped. No need for awnless in my area. There is no gypsum source for ag around here, but we are not in an area where it highly beneficial.
Thanks,
Jack
If prices are close, I buy from my coop but when they vary significantly with shipping factored in, I'll order on-line.
Cereal grains are inexpensive per pound and planted at a high rate. It makes absolutely no sense for me to buy those and have them shipped. No need for awnless in my area. There is no gypsum source for ag around here, but we are not in an area where it highly beneficial.
Thanks,
Jack
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
I am also in a very high ag area so corn/soybeans/wheat are everywhere and wouldn’t make sense to put out, easier to just leave a few rows along a woods.
Food plotting isn’t really that popular here with most landowners trying to get every penny out of the land. The people that do usually go with some type of brassicas/clovers and the normal plots are small with a large one being an acre. Having a feeder is way more common than plotting.
We have a local seed dealer that sells most of the common plotting seed and with the internet if volume isn’t large to where shipping is an issue most stuff can be found.
Gypsum is used here in bulk by a lot of farmers as a soil amendment and to help with micronutrients, again farmers trying to get as many bushel per acre as possible with the loamy clay. It is also very common for people to use on their lawns to help keep them green and lush with most houses having clay from basement around the yard. For home use it is usually sold as Nutrisoft or similar around $5-6 for a forty pound bag and that is just the right size for small plots.
Food plotting isn’t really that popular here with most landowners trying to get every penny out of the land. The people that do usually go with some type of brassicas/clovers and the normal plots are small with a large one being an acre. Having a feeder is way more common than plotting.
We have a local seed dealer that sells most of the common plotting seed and with the internet if volume isn’t large to where shipping is an issue most stuff can be found.
Gypsum is used here in bulk by a lot of farmers as a soil amendment and to help with micronutrients, again farmers trying to get as many bushel per acre as possible with the loamy clay. It is also very common for people to use on their lawns to help keep them green and lush with most houses having clay from basement around the yard. For home use it is usually sold as Nutrisoft or similar around $5-6 for a forty pound bag and that is just the right size for small plots.
Natty Bumppo
5 year old buck +
No farm country around here. I can find rye in August if I am lucky. Everything else has to be shipped.
j-bird
Moderator
Biggest issue about being in farm country is outside of the farm retail stores everyone mostly deals in bulk amounts. You want to by enough gly to last you a life time....I know a guy. You want the best corn seed money can buy....I know a guy. You need TONS of fertilizer....I know a guy. You try to by a single bag of cheap RR corn seed, 300 lbs of triple 15 and 100 lbs of Urea and a gallon of gly.....well....then those guys all look at you real funny! I just tell them it's for a big garden...because they really look at you funny when you tell them its for the deer. Because they either see deer as the enemy....OR...they are like "what deer?" If I mention deer...I might as well leave my tinfoil hat on!
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
Our co ops have 2.5 gal jugs of gly and 24 D can buy seed by the pound but they charge $4 for small bag/bagging fee. I have no problem with that as I dont want 100 # of brassica seed in my office. I buy Urea by the 5 gal bucket and could buy other fertilizer the same way. I havent checked on gypsum I just get it from Menards
SD51555
5 year old buck +
It's strange, some parts of the country have really good retail infrastructure for plotters (seed by the lb, bagged fertilizer, willingness to order). I'm in the heart of farm country out here, and you damn near get punched in the face when you inquire about food plot quantities.
Green Cover is really close to having everything. There's only a couple more things I wish they carried. If they could get that figured out, I'd pay the pallet rate to get it all in one shot. I got my hands on some of their forage corn a few years back and had a guy plant some. It came very well, and for what it was, it was a great value. It's not 350 bushels and 10' tall, but it put on nice cobs and early enough to overseed in fall.
Green Cover is really close to having everything. There's only a couple more things I wish they carried. If they could get that figured out, I'd pay the pallet rate to get it all in one shot. I got my hands on some of their forage corn a few years back and had a guy plant some. It came very well, and for what it was, it was a great value. It's not 350 bushels and 10' tall, but it put on nice cobs and early enough to overseed in fall.
Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
SD ... Green Cover has a product they call Grazing Corn, is that what you are referring to?
SD51555
5 year old buck +
Yep.
Tree Spud
5 year old buck +
I am not about to pay $250 for a bag of corn. Have tried year old broken bag corn with so so results.
An interesting question for you ... did you fertilize or spray the weeds?
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