SC Kansas

[Turkey Creek]

These guys have a lot of good information on planting and stratification. I have gotten seed from them in smaller quantities. https://www.prairiemoon.com/

I think if you plant the seed you will have good success. Considering the seed is wind blow normally and lays on the surface until it germinates.

 

[buckdeer1]

Tried to spread fertilizer in the small plots last night and another example of POS equipt.Used way to much plastic for over 200.00.I dug out my old 4wheeler spreader and it slid right over my mount for my boomless and worked fine. I have 22 acres of buffer strip that expires next year and with the BS of not having forbs in a wetland I tried to renew I thought I would get to work early.I have the guy coming out monday.This patch I have alot of natural forbs and they are alot easier to see now VS when grass is 5ft tall

 

[buckdeer1]

I am guessing the brown limbs is going to turn out to be fire blight.I will go through and identify which ones suffered the worse damage.

 

[buckdeer1]

There are some bucks getting really good growth

 

[buckdeer1]

It's been awhile since I posted.I haven't even sat a tree yet except with daughters to ML hunt.One killed a mid 150s 10pt. We cut the double crop beans off last week and the late planted beans barely made with the drought so I drilled wheat it food plots also and waiting on a rain. I drilled 20 acres of wheat today for feed since we won't plant the crop fields back due to rotation.

 

[Brian662]

Any pics of the ML kill?

 

[buckdeer1]

Heres one

 

[buckdeer1]

IIt's been awhile but will try to catch up some. All I planted this year was 25 fragrant sumac and 25 bur oaks, Some of the oaks I planted where I wanted and some I just got in ground and tubed and will spade them next year and move.Alfalfa-clover plot is great and the 2 year old 30 tree fruit orchard is growing. The rains have been helping not having to water as much. Did find something strange when I got to the barn this morning, a quail had flown into my walkin door and was dead on the concrete. I really hate to see that as they are just starting to make a come back.Looks like we will be planting early milo of ag ground then a cover crop of wheat and radishes, Should start planting this week.

 

[buckdeer1]

Heres one of our milo fields that will be harvested then double crop beans will go in

 

[T-Max]

Heres one of our milo fields that will be harvested then double crop beans will go in

You can get a bean crop after Milo harvest? Milo isn’t harvested until fall up here.


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[buckdeer1]

This is early milo so yes we will get beans in and then plant a cover crop of wheat and radishes, then next year it will probably all get full season beans unless we spray cover crop and plant wheat there in sept-oct. All depends on the rain.

 

[buckdeer1]

So my other orchard has two apple trees that have to be at least 10 years old, they started leaning bad in the last couple weeks.I have pulled up with truck and put T posts and ratchet straps on them but don't think I can get them straight.I wonder why these all the sudden did this? I have some walmart trees and they are straight as a string and loaded every year.They have to be close to 20 years old now.

 

[b116757]

So my other orchard has two apple trees that have to be at least 10 years old, they started leaning bad in the last couple weeks.I have pulled up with truck and put T posts and ratchet straps on them but don't think I can get them straight.I wonder why these all the sudden did this? I have some walmart trees and they are straight as a string and loaded every year.They have to be close to 20 years old now.

I had one do that to me every year if we got a wet summer or fall before the apples dropped I would find the tree laying on the ground. I finally drove in a t-post deep next to the down hill side it’s been so many years now the tree is starting to grow around the t-post that did cure the issue.

 

[buckdeer1]

I thought about cutting way back.We have had alot of rain this year but with the sandy loam you would think they would have some deep roots by now

 

[b116757]

I thought about cutting way back.We have had alot of rain this year but with the sandy loam you would think they would have some deep roots by now

It’s likely on a poorly anchored dwarfing rootstock I’m sure mine is.

 

[buckdeer1]

Well don't have to water trees this week, 2.1 inches in 45 minutes

 

[buckdeer1]

They say they grow faster month of july than any other month

 

[T-Max]

They say they grow faster month of july than any other month

Oooooooohhhhhh….


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[Turkey Creek]

Dang nice bucks. I always get bummed this time of year. My trail cameras dry up with photos of the bigger guys. They show back up later in September, so I guess that is a nice surprise to see how they have finished out. Trying to decide if I want to fork out enough money to have a thermal drone fly the area for me now. Would like to make habitat changes if I could to hold them here year round instead of letting them drift off to possibly be poached before they come back.

 

[buckdeer1]

It's strange as my more mature bucks are staying 1/2 to 3/4 mile from the majority of the does and a couple young bucks. Thats not saying that theres no does and fawns in the area at all but just alot less.I will say that every buck 3.5 or older that I have pic of since they started growing again has been on south end. No better cover and no better food.