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A Lil’ Tractor Time #3416437
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That’s relaxing. Spent a few hours myself yesterday. Looking good on your property.

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Originally Posted by Mhkodiak
That’s relaxing. Spent a few hours myself yesterday. Looking good on your property.


Thanks!.......I ran a turkey hen out of my bigger field. I mowed everything but that one strip down the center and had gone back to the house for no more than about 10 minutes.....When I came riding back up she shot out of that strip like she sprouted up out of the ground. I looked and looked and never could find a nest. That area was pretty thick in seeded out cereal rye and crimson clover


I think I may try planting it like this later this fall with the strips that are currently mowed being my fall blend areas......maybe widen them out a touch more.....I'm hoping the strips left standing will give some white clover semi-shade like you see beginning to happen in the first picture

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Re: A Lil’ Tractor Time [Re: CNC] #3416654
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Ouch!......That sucks. I was just looking in the wrong spot. I knew that hen had a nest somewhere in there. On the positive side though, if hens are nesting in the middle of your food plot then you must be doing something right. She was nesting in one of the thickest areas of cereal rye, clover, and new DF growth. My middle finger is pointing directly at where she was actually sitting about a foot in front of my hand... right in the middle of the semi circle shaped group of green cut DF stems. I think she got right up in amongst that little cluster for shelter. Maybe next year I'll wait a few more weeks and do this mowing in mid June.......or is this hen still nesting kind of an extreme outlier?

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Re: A Lil’ Tractor Time [Re: CNC] #3416728
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Here’s a closer look at the area the hen was choosing to nest in…….

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If you think in terms of managing a pond for “structure” then you can see the same concept playing out here….and why the hen nested where she did in the cover of one of the DF clumps.....very same concept as your NWSG's that grow in clumps. The more I think about it the more I feel certain that I’ll wait until mid to late June next year to mow, if I mow at all. The purpose of the mowing was to thin out and set back the dog fennel some so that it would 1) allow more room for diversity to come in……and 2) make it more manageable and easier to plant into come fall….instead of being 7ft+ tall like the screens and perimeter......On a side note....Notice the amount of biomass I'm putting down and recycling via "hay"

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Re: A Lil’ Tractor Time [Re: CNC] #3416733
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Same spot a few weeks ago......There's a good bit of clover in that hay.....

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How much and do you own CNC

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Originally Posted by jake5050
How much and do you own CNC


I own 25 and hunt another 250,000 that surrounds it. grin


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Let me add one more thing to why I think the hen nested there……..Along with the good cover, I think she recognized the abundance of food in the field that would have provided her chicks a place to feed once they hatched without having to go anywhere.

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Got at least 3 hawks and 2 buzzards swarming my field now.......The mowing definitely stirred the critters up and drew them in.


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Sunlight, Water, Good Soil Practices……….Massive forage and biomass production……..massive carbon recycling…….Just need a “herd” of buffalo to recycle it for me……done let her get a lil’ thick. This is the top end of a watershed finger


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Here’s a really important concept to understand……..If you back up a couple posts and look at the pic sequence that I said was “the top end of a watershed finger” and had gotten a lil’ thick…….the pics below are that same exact spots several years ago. For reference, the tree you see in the center of the first pic above to the right of the powerline is the same tree that's to Otis's left in the first pic of this sequence below. All of this water was flowing off of the neighboring farmer’s field…..The water was rushing right through my property though and not being utilized…….I thinned out the overstory and started recycling the understory vegetation……This changed the topsoil structure to be more porous as well as providing mass amounts of vegetation to slow the water down and hold the soil together……I basically created a backstop to catch this water runoff and absorb it into the ground. The result is that you no longer see this massive water flow running through this bottom now and the water that falls on this section of the watershed is being utilized to grow understory vegetation instead of just running on down the watershed. Being able to catch that silt and topsoil sorta recreated an alluvial flood plain scenario too and probably why that very top end of the finger is like a jungle now several years later. Part of managing land and a very important part of it.....revolves around managing water.

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Water Management Continued…………

Here is the next watershed finger over and an example in my opinion of poor watershed management and indicative of what you see all over the area. The overstory and midstory have been allowed to dominate and COMPLETELY shade out the understory……When this happens it not only eliminates the understory vegetation….but it also effects the water cycle. Massive amounts of water and silt flow straight through this bottom during flash flood events. This entire bottom will flood for a few hours a couple times a year. It'll take the leaves and all with it and leave nothing but a floor of sand/silt across the bottom.

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That process could be changed though through eliminating the privet midstory and thinning out some of the trash from the overstory…..which would allow a vibrant plant community to reestablish. You can see this beginning to happen on the left where I have done some H&S on the privet. The problem is that we’re not actually managing our “Stream Management Zones”………We’re mostly just cutting them out of the “management” areas and not doing anything to them.

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