Who is planting this weekend?

[Someday isle]

It seems I’m in the same boat every year - Welcome to Missouri Food plotting in the fall. Labor Day weekend is my best chance to get out and plant. Too busy the following weekend but no real rain in the forecast. I guess I’ll go out Friday and get my fall plots in and hope the rain shows up at some point. The plan is the same as last year. 150 pounds per acre of cereal grains is the foundation. I sprayed two weeks ago so I’ll disc, seed, and cultipack, then spread clover and radishes on top. As long as it doesn’t go too long or get too hot there should be enough seed buried to grow once we do get rain. I’ll have an extra 100 pounds of rye set aside to overseed later in the month too provides I can time a Rain storm then.

 

[KY wild]

Same here in KY the fall almost always a drought, usually takes a hurricane pushing up from the south to change the pattern and allow local fronts to bring rain back to the area. If this hurricane does not occur then often mid October before we start seeing any rain. Dang tough for fall food plots. I usually plant some in the dust and wait for the rain to plant in other fields but the results are not that great. Twenty to thirty years ago Ky would receive a lot a rain in Sept. and Oct. in fact many years hard to plant due to mud. I have switched to planting more perennial clovers which helps but seeing a fall plot the first time the green is so bright it almost hurts your eyes.... I miss that eye candy.

 

[jsasker007]

I finally got around to broadcasting yesterday which is later than what I wanted. RYE and Wheat. Heavy on the rye.

 

[Bill]

It seems I’m in the same boat every year - Welcome to Missouri Food plotting in the fall. Labor Day weekend is my best chance to get out and plant. Too busy the following weekend but no real rain in the forecast. I guess I’ll go out Friday and get my fall plots in and hope the rain shows up at some point. The plan is the same as last year. 150 pounds per acre of cereal grains is the foundation. I sprayed two weeks ago so I’ll disc, seed, and cultipack, then spread clover and radishes on top. As long as it doesn’t go too long or get too hot there should be enough seed buried to grow once we do get rain. I’ll have an extra 100 pounds of rye set aside to overseed later in the month too provides I can time a Rain storm then.

Every time I’ve gone to the farm this year it rained a lot. My neighbor called yesterday and said he would buy my plane ticket if I came out and brought rain.

 

[bueller]

I often plant on Labor Day weekend and it seems the turkeys have me patterned for the free seed. They showed back up about a week ago after being pretty infrequent during the summer.

 

[SwampCat]

I am scared of the army worms this early