I'm getting it now, Throw n Mow allows for more liberties than disc and cover.

I've never had anything eat the buckwheat that I have planted, unless I count bees for the pollen. It is a good soil builder though and I still use it. I had a land owner tell me deer down there wouldn't eat �rimson Clover yet they tear it up when I plant it.

I think a lot of it has to do with how many deer you have and the quality/quantity of the other forage present on the property. Deer will eat just about anything.....whether or not they have to is a different question though. I think some of these crops like buckwheat, which are not at the top of the preference list, will be a good indicator to help folks figure out where they fall on this sliding scale of browsing pressure from property to property.

Something else to throw in here as well that I've said in the past....I think for many folks, especially the ones with small plots, you will see better long term results if you concentrate summer planting more on improving soil health rather than feeding deer. There can still be an attraction component to the field but making the first priority for summer plots be soil health improvement. The winter plots will reap the benefits as a result. For someone with 1/2 acre plot or a 1 acre plot.....(heck even larger than that really)....your main goal for having that food plot and the goal that is the most realistic to accomplish is winter time attraction for viewing/harvesting. We're not going to make any significant differences with trying to feed deer off of 1/2 acre in the summer but we can realistically improve the productivity of the plot.

Good discussion.......

Come on rain chances should be done planting all 30 acres by dark today.

Things are looking promising for most of the upcoming week. I'd love to see an inch or two of rain over the next few days.

DONE!!!! 2015 summer plots are in. Come on rain

Fertilized with the first round this morning and just got a good rain. I see plants jumping this week.

Fun stuff.....Come on rain!!!!

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I don't believe in that mess

What about the farmer's almanac???

Ehhh don't read too much into that. A broken clock is still right twice a day.

I never could buy into any of it either. My grandparents were what you would have called Ol� Timers. They grew some beautiful gardens but they wouldn�t plant until the �signs� were right. I�ve heard stuff like that if you plant greens while the signs were in the bowels then it would tear your stomach up when you ate them�..and I�m like�..Uhhh, you think its maybe just all that grease and fresh greens hitting your stomach like a dose of castor oil??? My mother is a hardcore flower and vegetable gardener and she swears there�s something to some of the stuff in there. She won�t plant anything while the signs are in the killin times. I tend to just see it from a straight �scientific� standpoint�..moisture, soil temp, etc�.

Just got through throwing some ammonia on some green briars honey suckle and black berries and it's pouring again.

Big rain on my farm in limestone co this Am. Loading the family up and going to check gauges now

Nary a drop here so far but that looks like its about to change real soon. I couldn't resist stealing the bag of sunflower seeds we were using in our bird feeders and spreading it across the field this morning.

Big ol� fat rain��.

1.7" up at my farm!!! Couldn't have ordered it any better!

We're dang sure gettin the rain down here 257....This is going to turn out really nice. We're actually getting some heavy storms hittin from time to time. My wife said earlier...."Wow! It's coming a gulley washer!"....I responded..."Not in my field it isn't"... These are those kinds of rains that can reek havoc on a field that has been tilled to nothing but bare soil. Lots of runoff and erosion can occur.

Actually all my fields are tilled and terraced and I don't have any washes or runoff in 2 big rains now. Terraces do their job.