Food Plot Basics

[dennishoddy]

Started at daylight this morning brush hogging 4 properties. Finished up around 8:30 this evening. Long day and I’m tired.
Johnson grass thick and 8’ tall. Low range and first gear most of the time but it’s finished and ready for tilling and planting.

On one farm, saw my blind had a chunk blown out from the inside? WTF?
There is a piece of aluminum trim on that corner as well. Found the trim but not the piece that got blown out? Didn’t have time to crawl up there to see what happened, but I’ll be in the area almost daily For the foreseeable future, so, I’ll check it out.

 

[Okie4570]

Started at daylight this morning brush hogging 4 properties. Finished up around 8:30 this evening. Long day and I’m tired.
Johnson grass thick and 8’ tall. Low range and first gear most of the time but it’s finished and ready for tilling and planting.

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On one farm, saw my blind had a chunk blown out from the inside? WTF?
There is a piece of aluminum trim on that corner as well. Found the trim but not the piece that got blown out? Didn’t have time to crawl up there to see what happened, but I’ll be in the area almost daily For the foreseeable future, so, I’ll check it out.

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Lightning?

 

[dennishoddy]

Lightning?

Maybe. I’ll know for sure when getting inside.

 

[retrieverman]

I left the house on the tractor at 6:15 this morning and got off at 8:00 this evening, and I only got three stand sites cleaned up and probably only 2/3 of the roads mowed out. I’ll be hitting it hard again tomorrow and hopefully be able to start tilling by tomorrow afternoon. In 20 years of doing this, I’m pretty sure this is the worst it’s been, but I partially blame myself for only mowing once instead of twice. I also think the fire in April and the regular rains contributed to the extra growth.

 

[OKRuss]

Are you going to bale it before discing?

 

[retrieverman]

Are you going to bale it before discing?

No, and I’m tilling not discing. At this point, if I can’t till the mess, I just won’t plant food plots.
After 21 hours, the mowing is done, and I’ll start tilling in the morning.

 

[OKRuss]

No, and I’m tilling not discing. At this point, if I can’t till the mess, I just won’t plant food plots.
After 21 hours, the mowing is done, and I’ll start tilling in the morning.

T'was a joke RM. It was so thick I figured you could bale it! Good luck with the TILLING.

 

[TedKennedy]

I disked mine last weekend, will plant tomorrow or Sunday.
Just got prices - 13/13/13 is 17.75 a bag, certified wheat 19.00 per bag

 

[OKRuss]

I disked mine last weekend, will plant tomorrow or Sunday.
Just got prices - 13/13/13 is 17.75 a bag, certified wheat 19.00 per bag

What else are you planting? We're going to shift to a perennial clover/chicory plot with a fall cover crop of cereal rye or forage oats or wheat. Still figuring out what's best on our place given we have a very sandy soil so some plots will have rye, a couple with oats and a couple with wheat.

 

[TedKennedy]

What else are you planting? We're going to shift to a perennial clover/chicory plot with a fall cover crop of cereal rye or forage oats or wheat. Still figuring out what's best on our place given we have a very sandy soil so some plots will have rye, a couple with oats and a couple with wheat.

I'll throw some clover on top after I disk in the wheat. There's a guy that runs cows on us from Jan-Labor Day, so it doesn't do me much good to plant other stuff.