Hoping Harvey comes through with some rain up here. Went ahead and put a throw and mow plot out this weekend on some family land that is a secondary hunting location for me. I know its early but I am gambling on the heat staying away and somewhat regular rain. Its a pain getting the tractor out to my club and this land, so since I was bushhogging our club plots went ahead with the throw and mow.
I put it in a formerly swampy area that hadn't been bushhogged in 10-15 years; it's finally dried out the past few years. We had it cut with a big tractor about six weeks ago which left 3-5 inches of biomass on the surface. It had grown almost knee high since it was cut. I broadcast 150 lbs of a mix of wheat, bob oats, and winter peas on Saturday and hogged it down with my little JD 750 and 4 ft hog yesterday. Seed got covered really well. If we get the rain this week I am optimistic.
If it doesn't turn out, all I'm out is about 3 gallons of diesel, $60 in seed, and about 3 hours. I'm cool with that, so we'll see.
