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How is everyone's food plots looking ??? I realize we have not had much rain, and hope that is the only reason our plots are not looking real good. Only reason for asking, is I bumped into a gentleman this weekend that mentioned he was sold some BAD seed from a Co-Op store. That is where we bought our seed. Anyone else having this problem???
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Mine looks good at the farm, lush. Need rain at the club, bad.
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I doubt he had bad seed. I don't think the Co Op sells planting grains that havn't been certified/germination tested. If he bought horse feed oats or something similar then he should have fed the seed instead of planting them.
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 happy , happy ,happy
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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It has been my experience that when i hear of someone buying bad seed from a reputable business, it usually means they planted on their normal schedule (with no rain in sight) as opposed to waiting on the conditions to be right.
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I planted mine about 3 weeks ago and timed it perfect rain wise. They are looking great although hey need more moisture now. Surprisingly the deer are pounding them even though there is a decent acorn drop going on.
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No rain combined with probably pouring the fertilizer to it. Probably burned up any chance it had.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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I'm in the seed business so it's always the seeds fault not something the farmer or guy planting did if you hear what I'm saying!!!
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I've worked at the Co-op all the way through college, never sell bad seed. We sell that years current seed and if we had seed from last year( usually just a couple of bags) we always let the customer know that the seed is out of date. Which I've had 3 year old seed come up before. An back to the outdated seed, usually customers ask if we have outdated seed and if we do we sell it way under cost. Sounds like someone let their seed burn up or plant to deep one!!
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I sat on a field in Tallapoosa Co this weekend that looked like a Pennington commercial!! Guy told me they had only been planted two weeks. Field was thick and lush, which made me wonder how much feeding was happening on them, but I saw 9 deer on it and virtually all of it was chewed on.
He said they limed all their fields in February and rotor-tilled them, they were rotor-tilled again for planting. That makes a lot better seed bed than disking.
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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I've worked at the Co-op all the way through college, never sell bad seed. We sell that years current seed and if we had seed from last year( usually just a couple of bags) we always let the customer know that the seed is out of date. Which I've had 3 year old seed come up before. An back to the outdated seed, usually customers ask if we have outdated seed and if we do we sell it way under cost. Sounds like someone let their seed burn up or plant to deep one!! Not all coops do.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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Everything is up and looking great but needs rain bad. We've had 1 day of rain the last month in east central al
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Planted ours Oct the 11th they look good..Sure hope we get some rain soon though..
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A third of ours look great... A third look ok....and a third are struggling but up..
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A third of ours look great... A third look ok....and a third are struggling but up.. Thats exactly how mine are in Barbour Cty
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A third of ours look great... A third look ok....and a third are struggling but up.. Same with ours.
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We planted ours 3 weeks ago. All are up and looking good, but like most need another good rain or two. The deer are hammering them, which isn't helping much on letting them get established.
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[img:center]http://  [/img] 3 weeks old .
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Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one with deep ruts,hills and mud.It may be bumpy but WHAT A RIDE!
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Do deer eat brown lizards?
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