My buddy was out at the farm today and sent me a few update pictures.The beans in the bean/corn plot are up to about 5' high now. It will be interesting to see if they completely smother the corn by the time they are done.
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They are doing their job. Fence was let down a couple of weeks ago and they are hitting the field perimeter good.




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The 3 ac field I planted about 3 weeks ago is coming on good.I thought I had planted to thick but maybe not.

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Based on this pic and my buddys recon I had one complete failure in the new field.You can see peas, sunn hemp, sorghum and buckwheat. Unfortunately there are no sunflowers in the pic or the field fpr that matter which is a little strange since 50 lbs of them went in the ground.

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Two for you!

Looks great! Congrats!

Wonder if you got bad sunflower seed or if they got nipped at sprout.

I assure you they got nipped off.

Well I got the newest update on the summer plots.Rain has been plentiful and the north plot is doing great.

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Corn/bean field in foreground, no pic but the beans are around 6 feet high and over the corn now.

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I am really looking forward to seeing what impact these 6 acres are going to have on this years hunting.This area has always been used as an east/west travel corridor at night but was wide open field so not much in the day. If things go well even after dry down I hope there will be a enough cover to get them crossing more in daylight.

I really thought I had badly overseeded this field but it looks like it turned out about right with 75 lbs/ac of pretty evenly mixed Sun Hemp, Peas, Sorghum, Buckwheat and Sunflowers.It may have been a little heavy if the Sunflowers had not disappeared. I thought I might have had bad seed but did a germination test and it was over 90%.Its a real mystery because there is not a one in the field and my buddy never saw the tracks in the field that would have been there if deer ate them all. Maybe birds, who knows.

It looks great y'all will kill a pile of deer around that field this year! I can't wait to see what it looks like in November!

Pretty amazing what enough water will do for a summer field. Makes an amateur like me look like he knows what he is doing. This is from Friday, about a week since the last pic posted showing my buddy. I think there has been a little growth in the pea/hemp/buckwheat/sorghum field planted first of July.

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The soybeans seem to have slowed down and are busy producing pods. The corn appears to be starting to dry down which I guess is about right since it was 113 days corn planted the first part of May.

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Another update. The beans are actually shrinking as they put on pods, it appears the pods are pulling them down.Last update they were almost at the top of the corn.
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Actually made a little corn.

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IC Peas are making.Happy quail and turkeys right now.

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And a few of the guys enjoying all the groceries.This lil fella looks like he is getting enough groceries. Hope he hangs around for a few years.
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Some of his buddys

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This is the one I would really like to run across in a few months.

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Unfortunately even in the summer none of these bucks are ever out and about in shooting hours.

As hot as it is I wouldn't be out much either.

If I could hide all night in that delicious looking buffet you got growing, I wouldn't show up in daylight either.

Nice looking plot for sure...I messed around and didn't get mine in the ground this year.