I'm going with nature's own 30 way blend again this year.....Right now I'm smooth covered up with blackberries around my place.....Most I've ever seen.....We picked some of the first ripe ones yesterday and made a little pot of blackberry preserves.....It didn't last long.... Had to just eat it on some whop biscuits but it was still come count.

Soil temps are still pretty cool.....I was just reading that for millet you want soil temps to be 65 degrees or better. Soil temp map is showing us still being in the 50's. It's getting hot though so maybe it'll warm on up pretty quick

No way soil temps are in the 50’s in AL anywhere. We’re planting heavy cover no till ground and it’s 67 at 10 Am. That’s when you take soil temp. Worked up ground in low 70’s.

Maybe it was just for this one particular day I happened to look at the soil temp map...….

http://dtninfo.alfafarmers.org/index.cfm?show=1&mapID=20

Fake farmers news network. They can’t beat boots on the ground. Plant away

I thought that was suppose to be pretty accurate......Soil temps are measured at like 7 or 8 o'clock aren't they?

No sir. We take em at 10 Am at 2” depth.

That's the standard that everyone goes by???? I may just be remembering it wrong....it been awhile since I checked any soil temps but I thought I remembered it being earlier than that.

frak man whatever. Go argue with a wall.

I'm just simply asking a question....Isn't there a standard that everyone goes by? There would have to be....You can't just measure it at any given time of the day or at any given depth.

I edited my original reply. Yes. In farming there’s a standard. It’s 10 am at 2” depth. We don’t plant seed 4” deep. You can argue whatever. You think you know the answer to it all. You got another throw an mow thread you’re hoping goes 144 fraking pages again. You’re shucks is old.

How would y’all mix these I/C peas, sorghum and sun hemp? I have 7 total fields between 1/2 and 1/4 acre each. The plan is for biomass and browse so don’t want to plant too thick or too thin. What do y’all suggest on pounds per acre of each?

I planted 50lbs peas/10lb each of sunn hemp and buckwheat per acre. Not sure about the sorghum.

If I were growing those plants on that size plot and wanted to accomplish the goals you listed.....I'd put up an e-fence around them until just prior to fall planting....That's when I'd take the fence off and let it start concentrating the deer on it.....I'd then broadcast my fall cereal grains mix into into it as the deer were bringing down the summer crop

If I can get the peas over waist high they will do ok with my browsing pressure. I plan to use the plot saver system this year to help get to that point

Harold, that's exactly what I do, except I dont need a fence. They dont annihilate the peas and buckwheat until august. First time to plant sunn hemp on this property, so we shall see.

I spread seed at the house right before dark yesterday and drug it this morning. Got a nice slow rain on it after spreading and a good bit before so hopefully we will have lift off soon. Couldn’t get any sun hemp yesterday so went with I/C peas and sorghum 50#\25# a acre. I’ll probably add something else if I can find hemp or buck wheat.

I have sprouts 2 inches high coming up thru the thatch. Put out my trophy rocks yesterday. They're suppose to do some clear cutting on the property, too.

I believe I’ll have some good growth by next weekend with all this rain. I’ve got to fertilize now but it looks like the rain will stop by the weekend so next chance I guess.

Our co op in Andalusia had buckwheat and sunn hemp.