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

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

I'm considering overseeding my bean plot with rye, crimson, and radishes this weekend. They haven started to turn yellow yet but the deer have them topped a fair amount so I think there will be enough sunlight to get them going. They should start to turn in the next 2-3 weeks.

 

[Someday isle]

Interesting you say that. I left sections perennial clover in every food plot again this year too. It was really good in the spring but even now the clover is hanging on enough to at least provide something. I’d like to add some chicory but I’ve got such a huge smartweed problem that in order to stay it enough it contain it I feel like I’d end up killing the chicory.

 

[Someday isle]

Well I got everything in last Friday. We got about a tenth of an inch of rain on Wednesday this week, another tenth of an inch today with a chance for a little more tonight. Hopefully it’s enough to get things going and then maybe some cooler fall temperatures and morning dew to keep things from drying out as things germinate…or just wishful thinking!

 

[Bill]

Well I got everything in last Friday. We got about a tenth of an inch of rain on Wednesday this week, another tenth of an inch today with a chance for a little more tonight. Hopefully it’s enough to get things going and then maybe some cooler fall temperatures and morning dew to keep things from drying out as things germinate…or just wishful thinking!

If it holds out to the end of next week you’ll be good. I’m coming to town. Always get rained out so you should be good…..

 

[Someday isle]

If it holds out to the end of next week you’ll be good. I’m coming to town. Always get rained out so you should be good…..

That would be nice but it doesn’t show a drop in the next ten days. We’ll see…going to be in the 80s here on opening day of archery season. I might sneak out for a couple hours the first Friday afternoon for my annual get the kinks out hunt. I usually hunt the least intrusive stand and just get all my squeaks and rattles out of the way. I’m very organized but one year I made it all the way into the stand and got all setup before I realized my release was still in the truck.

 

[bueller]

It's happening again. It seems the first 2 weeks of September are warm and dry nearly every year. Not great for those of us that topseed Labor Day weekend.

 

[RGrizzzz]

I planted a plot we tilled to level out on 8/9, with Green covers brassica plus and some forage collards. Dad disked and/or tilled two small plots that needed to be redone on 8/22. They were doing decent last weekend. He drilled rye and black oats through clover on 8/28, and it looked good as well. We've been lucky to have enough rain to get these plots going, with a drier than normal fall in North Central PA.

 

[Bill]

I didn’t plant brassicas this year. When I do again it will be in July. Seems like we always get some rain in July and August then like Bueller says it dries out for September.

 

[b116757]

I broadcast about 40 lbs of balansa clover and 10 lbs of Durano clover the other day. I’ve still got about 10 lbs more of the Durano to broadcast.

 

[TenPoint]

I planted my cereal grain plot Labor Day weekend. That Saturday I believe. We’ve had good rain all summer and got an inch the day before I planted. Probably haven’t had more than 0.2” since planting but it’s filling in nicely. Amazing how the turkeys, absent all summer, showed up as soon as I turned the dirt and threw seed.

Planting day. 8/30/25

The next day

9/14/25

Little guy checking things out.

 

[Bill]

SI, did you get rain today? I planted rye, clover, brassicas and some hybrid kale in a little plot that was burnt dirt on Monday. Figured why not. Tilled it lightly, cultipacked spread seed and cultipacked again. 1.5 inches in the last 24 hours.

 

[b116757]

We been getting small pop up rain storms in SE Kansas but nothing substantial I could use some serious rain at my place was a great spring and summer for rain but we have had a bit of a late summer/early fall drought here. These pop up storm don’t really amount to much .1” maybe

 

[Someday isle]

SI, did you get rain today? I planted rye, clover, brassicas and some hybrid kale in a little plot that was burnt dirt on Monday. Figured why not. Tilled it lightly, cultipacked spread seed and cultipacked again. 1.5 inches in the last 24 hours.

Weather channel showed .2 yesterday out at our place. We got nothing at home. Hopefully there was enough viable seed still in the ground. Last weekend it was all still dust out there. I’m hunting this afternoon for a few hours so hopefully I can see signs of rain. I’m actually packing up to head out right now.

Looks like decent chances of rain all week starting sunday so if the forecast holds I’m going to go out and spread a little more rye in the rain Sunday morning.

 

[Telemark]

Bone dry in Ohio. I'm going to spread rye tomorrow and pray the forecasted rain makes something of it. Unfortunately looking like a lot of bare dirt so far this summer.