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Damn it’s dry...
#2912041
09/24/19 10:43 PM
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Been preparing seed beds on our plots the past two days. Ground is hard as concrete. Had to break it with standard disc then hit with rotary tiller. Not a drop of moisture in the soil. Planning to put fertilizer and seed in the ground on Thursday and Friday and praying we get that forecasted rain within the next week or so. I felt Like that kid from Charlie Brown that always had a dust cloud following him around.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/25/19 05:56 AM
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And no reasonable chance or rain for the next seven days
When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself The older I get the better I used to be
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912107
09/25/19 07:24 AM
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Not to mention any nitrogen in fertilizer will be gone within 14 days
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/25/19 07:29 AM
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Been preparing seed beds on our plots the past two days. Ground is hard as concrete. Had to break it with standard disc then hit with rotary tiller. Not a drop of moisture in the soil. Planning to put fertilizer and seed in the ground on Thursday and Friday and praying we get that forecasted rain within the next week or so. I felt Like that kid from Charlie Brown that always had a dust cloud following him around. We’re doing the same and just hoping. We don’t have the option of waiting for forecasted rain. Everyone lives 9 hours away except for me, and I can’t just drop everything in my life and plant 25 acres by myself when rain is predicted. We plant the last weekend in September or first weekend in October every year. We’ve never had a significant failure. Heck I’m seeing some dove fields germinate that were top sewed in dust and haven’t had rain.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: 257wbymag]
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09/25/19 08:32 AM
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Not to mention any nitrogen in fertilizer will be gone within 14 days That's the main reason all my fertilizer and seed is still in the barn. It's not going to rain for a loooong time yet, it appears.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/25/19 08:59 AM
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come on now you know better than to try and plant in this type situation, youre just going to waste your money
"All is fair in love, War and Turkey Hunting"
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912281
09/25/19 11:26 AM
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Hell I put lime out 2 weeks ago and I believe it all blowed away
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/25/19 12:07 PM
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Unfortunately, the guys in our club want to plant this weekend and can't convince them we need to wait until mid October.
Oh well...
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: Joe4majors]
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09/25/19 04:49 PM
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I would think a lot of the seed might be ok if covered. My fear would be one shower comes along, causes germination, then the tender little sprout wilts and dies with the heat and no rain for a couple weeks. This Or you waste the fertilizer money. You need to wait.
I love my country, but don't trust my government.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912515
09/25/19 05:28 PM
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Why would the fertilizer money be wasted??
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2912547
09/25/19 06:17 PM
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P&K fertilizer would be ok to put out now. Just not N
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/25/19 10:34 PM
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Seed will be fine. I overseed anyway. We will not fertilize until we know for certain rain is coming. My concern is what someone else mentioned and that is we get two or three days of rain then nothing for else for October. It would be a $4,000 gamble at this point but we haven’t lost in the past years, but I know It is a possibility. There was zero moisture in any of our plots.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/25/19 11:04 PM
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Well I have Decided to cover all our seed and fertilizer with plastic that is setting one each plot and play the waiting game. Everybody going to be hunting over a big old corn pile anyways.
Last edited by muzziehead; 09/25/19 11:06 PM.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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09/26/19 07:40 AM
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Well I have Decided to cover all our seed and fertilizer with plastic that is setting one each plot and play the waiting game. Everybody going to be hunting over a big old corn pile anyways. Wouldn’t the heat from the sun and plastic ruin the seed though?
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/26/19 08:58 AM
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Wouldn’t it make the most sense to wait until after the seed germinates and develops a root system before you fertilize??
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: hunterturf]
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09/26/19 09:02 AM
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Wouldn’t it make the most sense to wait until after the seed germinates and develops a root system before you fertilize?? Perhaps. May also depend on how easy/often you can access the land.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: Cynical]
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09/26/19 02:03 PM
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Well I have Decided to cover all our seed and fertilizer with plastic that is setting one each plot and play the waiting game. Everybody going to be hunting over a big old corn pile anyways. Wouldn’t the heat from the sun and plastic ruin the seed though? It will not harm either of them. Probably cooler out in the middle of the plot than it is in most Feed and Seed warehouses.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2913457
09/26/19 07:58 PM
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Well I have Decided to cover all our seed and fertilizer with plastic that is setting one each plot and play the waiting game. Everybody going to be hunting over a big old corn pile anyways. Wouldn’t the heat from the sun and plastic ruin the seed though? It will not harm either of them. Probably cooler out in the middle of the plot than it is in most Feed and Seed warehouses. I thought you meant you were spreading seed and putting plastic over it. The picture made a lot more sense.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/26/19 09:48 PM
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We are lucky to have quite a few spring creeks on our property. I’d bet if you have some property with sparse water, the water holes would be a good place to hunt.
Originally Posted By: Wiley Coyote Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here. On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/29/19 11:42 AM
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Planted all ours yesterday. Turkeys can eat it if they want. It wont matter there is so much seed left over from the last 25 years of planting the same plots when it rains it will grow and be beautiful
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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09/29/19 02:10 PM
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Hell, water tanks might not be a bad idea at this point I thought the same thing several years ago until being informed 1" of rain over an acre area is around 25,000 gallons.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
#2915366
09/29/19 02:17 PM
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I ain't planting chitt till I actually SEE rain falling.
I prolly would of lost all of the deer pear trees I planted this year if I hadn't been watering them, some of the others also. Damn it's dry.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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09/29/19 09:27 PM
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Those chances will diminish closer it gets. They just playing the odds.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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09/30/19 09:14 PM
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Y’all watch some whacked out wather guessers. Ain’t gonna do much.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/01/19 08:38 AM
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We always plant 2nd week of October - November 15th depending upon the forcast.
God Bless, David B.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/01/19 09:25 AM
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Now it's up to almost 90% sunday and 70% monday so it may just make it maybe Yep, it will rain.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/01/19 11:16 AM
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Now it's up to almost 90% sunday and 70% monday so it may just make it maybe What forecast are you looking at? Channel 13 and weather.com has 40% Sunday and 50% Monday.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: blumsden]
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10/01/19 02:19 PM
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Now it's up to almost 90% sunday and 70% monday so it may just make it maybe What forecast are you looking at? Channel 13 and weather.com has 40% Sunday and 50% Monday. Dark sky is the app I use. Now it's down to 21% S and 64% M so maybe it wont make it
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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10/01/19 04:24 PM
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Our plots are all quite dead from spraying. Will start disking this weekend, but ready for the (hopefully) cooler weather next week. One of my friends son had a little luck in the meantime.
I love my country, but don't trust my government.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/02/19 01:45 PM
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Now it's up to almost 90% sunday and 70% monday so it may just make it maybe I'm showing 40% Sunday and 30% Monday
A mans got to know his limitations.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/02/19 04:00 PM
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Now it's up to almost 90% sunday and 70% monday so it may just make it maybe I'm showing 40% Sunday and 30% Monday Yep 54 and 50 on mine now
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10/02/19 04:24 PM
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The big concern is to get it wet enough to germinate, but then no more moisture and burns up the sprouts. This
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/02/19 04:58 PM
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I disked one of my home fields yesterday evening, just scratched the surface. Going to hit it again with a subsoiler, redisk
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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10/03/19 04:17 PM
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We are going to put the seed in the ground in the morning. 20% chance of rain Sat and Sun but then 40% on Monday and Tuesday and then 40% again on Friday. This heat should be gone this coming week and some regular rainfall return. I HOPE and PRAY!!!!!
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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10/03/19 04:18 PM
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The big concern is to get it wet enough to germinate, but then no more moisture and burns up the sprouts. That's what I'm afraid of. Were penciled in to plant on Oct 12, but in a holding pattern for now. Fields are ready but a little rain would be worse than none If you planted, had germination, then more hot dry weather. You'd have dead fields and wind up buying more seed to plant. It's driving me nuts, I'm ready to be done with it and go hunting
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We are going to put the seed in the ground in the morning. 20% chance of rain Sat and Sun but then 40% on Monday and Tuesday and then 40% again on Friday. This heat should be gone this coming week and some regular rainfall return. I HOPE and PRAY!!!!! I'm gone do the same Its either gone work or it ain't
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Gentlemen. Look at the rainfall totals before you plant. The weathermen are predicting around a 1/2 inch rainfall total for the month of October at this time. I am in the woods everyday. I see a lot of your food plots that have been broke up. They are nothing but powder!!!!! I don't disagree. But it's October 4. If the weather men knew how to predict the future out 27 days, they wouldn't be working for a living. They can't even figure out if this rain even Monday is real or not. I've seen 80% all the way down to 40% for the same spot in the last 24 hours.
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10/04/19 04:07 PM
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Sumpter, you got a good layer thatch there, now is your chance to take the leap to T&M. LOL One advantage to the T&M method is that it takes a decent rain to wet all the thatch and get to the soil to sprout the seed. A small rain event often wont make it to the soil, so you dont have to worry about a small rain sprouting it and then the next day the sun beating down on the soil drying it out. That was a waist tall pasture that I mowed about 5 weeks ago,. Sprayed 3 weeks ago. I was told I would disk it,at least this year, that spot has not had the ground broken in 45 years and the cows have compacted the soil badly. I do have 3 spots (about 8 acres) that are in year 3 of T&M. Getting better each year. After year 2 I fertilized the existing grasses in late May and got rid of all the sparse spots. It came up much better last fall.
I love my country, but don't trust my government.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
[Re: muzziehead]
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10/04/19 10:44 PM
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Well, I pulled The trigger and we planted 26 acres today. They have increased our rain chance to 60% now for Monday and 50% on Friday. Then we are back to looking at 20% pretty much every day. Keeping my fingers crossed that this heat is leaving and rain is coming.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/05/19 12:04 PM
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2 weeks from now we’ll have why are my plots dead thread If it only rains 1” or less
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/05/19 12:07 PM
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2 weeks from now we’ll have why are my plots dead thread If it only rains 1” or less Yep. Planting now is a suckers bet.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/05/19 05:11 PM
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2 weeks from now we’ll have why are my plots dead thread If it only rains 1” or less Thats why we are still holding off. Everyone wants to plant at the first mention of rain.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal. Aldo Leopold .. (except when it comes to trailer tags)
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/05/19 09:53 PM
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I put out an automatic spin seeder in June. But no corn came up cause the deer, raccoons and skwerls keeping eating all of it when the corn seeds hit the ground. Even tried apple flavored to discourage them. It only made it worse.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/07/19 08:53 AM
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A big farming outfit that is between our 2 farms had all their equip. out and planting last weekend. We had previously planned to plant Friday and Saturday... I feel ok about having our seed in the ground. Had a good Stead rain into yesterday and currently have a nice slow soaking rain going now. I've planted at worse times and better times.
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/08/19 10:18 PM
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Only .04 inches of rain down my way. But it appears more rain is on its way within the next 10 days. Just glad I dont Have to worry about planting anymore
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/09/19 07:22 AM
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Only .04 inches of rain down my way. But it appears more rain is on its way within the next 10 days. Just glad I dont Have to worry about planting anymore The next 10 days currently shows a handful of decent chances of rain so hopefully you will it a couple. At about 6:15pm yesterday that cut corn field just south of Farmington was loaded with deer when I was heading south.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/15/19 10:45 AM
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257, how many acres is that field you are planting there. Also, what are you planting? Never used a drill planter and wasn't sure if you could plant a blend or not with the different size seeds.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/16/19 10:34 AM
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257, how many acres is that field you are planting there. Also, what are you planting? Never used a drill planter and wasn't sure if you could plant a blend or not with the different size seeds. My experience with the drills is you have multiple seed boxes - generally two - one for grains such as oats, wheat, rye, etc - and one for legumes - clover, other small seeds. You probably could do a 3 way mix with oats/rye/wheat in the big box and then clover in the small seed box, but don't think you would be able to plant like a 5 way mix that has oats/wheat/rye/clover/peas all mixed together. We use a Woods seeder and besides the "no till" part, it works similar in that it has a big seed and small seed box. The bigger seeds get buried a little deeper and the smaller seeds get dropped just before the cultipacker. I would only put different blends of seeds in the boxes together if they were very close to the same size.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/16/19 02:26 PM
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257, how many acres is that field you are planting there. Also, what are you planting? Never used a drill planter and wasn't sure if you could plant a blend or not with the different size seeds. Looks like his Daikon Radish field which was 7 acres or so if memory serves me well. We got seed in the ground Monday and plenty of rain following. All plots are already sprouting. The field I planted last Thursday is up 2” and already green from a distance
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/16/19 03:35 PM
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That field is 22 acres. I mix triticale, crimson and radish all together and know my best setting off trial and error over the years. Looks like a golf course today, a week later. I’ll post up pics of it later this week
Last edited by 257wbymag; 10/16/19 03:35 PM.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/16/19 06:30 PM
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Looks like a golf course today...……. Do your deer play golf??
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/16/19 07:41 PM
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It’s green. Like a golf course. Not littered with weeds and such
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/16/19 08:54 PM
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Looks like a golf course today...……. Do your deer play golf?? It’s green. Like a golf course. Not littered with weeds and such Y’all need to go to couples counseling.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/17/19 02:12 AM
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Yeah no chit, get a room.
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/19/19 02:37 PM
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Finally rain in North Jackson
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/19/19 03:30 PM
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Just under a half inch here today.
LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!! - - - - - - - -A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jeferson - - - - - - - -
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Re: Damn it’s dry...
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10/22/19 04:21 PM
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Went out and checked about 5 of our 30 plots and they are up and looking very nice. Will post some picks in about week once they all fill in good. Last year was almost too wet to plant and this year, well it was the driest I have seen in years. So grateful that I decided to push back our normal plant date of first weekend in October. Hope everyone else's plots are doing as well, with this much needed rain we have seen over the past two weeks. Now it is time to stop worrying about plots and start hunting.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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