Planted Fall Food Plots
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Bearbait I agree green is good and this plot is on a rocky hill so it tends to dry our more so than the others.
Deer are still enjoying the 96 acres of beans now which is good to allow my oats, wheat, and rape to establish.
Our rifle season kicks off this Saturday.
Deer are still enjoying the 96 acres of beans now which is good to allow my oats, wheat, and rape to establish.
Our rifle season kicks off this Saturday.
I wish the deer population was the same hear as when I was younger. Now I haven't seen one in a couple years. We do have the odd moose come in the yard but good luck getting picked for the draw, I've been putting in for as long as I can remember but no luck. This month and next I'll be heading to a friends camp on the mainland where they still have a healthy heard. Your very lucky to have such a beautiful spot.
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Old post from 2017 but thought I would bump as I will start the 2018 food plots tomorrow by disking them for the first time this year.
At this lease we do not plant summer plots because the farmer does it for us, beans again this year.
At this lease we do not plant summer plots because the farmer does it for us, beans again this year.
Two weeks after planting!!
And a good disc prior to seeding and 10 days after roundup and 24d!
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Two weeks after planting!!
And a good disc prior to seeding and 10 days after roundup and 24d!
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Curious why you spray with both glyphosate and 24D?
The 24D is for broadleaf and the glyphosate kills it all.
I use 41% generic glyphosate from tractor supply at a rate of 1oz to the gallon for vegetation knee high or less adn it works great, just an FYI.
OK question,,, How long lived it this spray,, meaning since I have been out of things most all summer weeds have taken over everything in the gardens and I would like to spray so come spring I dont have to fight with them. BUT I dont want any residue in the ground for food consumption for me and the clan
It’s just a better overall quicker and more efficient kill - used to just do the 41% glyco and my buddy who is a “real farmer” (I’m an amateur) suggested the 24D. Works great!
Skeets - you can plant edible plants after three days!
And thanks CM for the advice - always good to look at others’ viewpoints.
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Skeets I personally do not spray glyphosate around my garden or in it. I do spray on the food plots weeks prior to planting which the deer use when the oats and wheat come up.
Lots of controversy over glyphosate is safe or not. Educate yourself through some google searches where universities have performed studies.
I do know this! Most non row crops now are round-up ready, the seeds have been modified so that the glyphosate in round-up will not kill the plants. Corn and beans here are planted no till. Application of round-up applied, seeds planted later, plants get 6" to a foot tall and second application of glyphosate is applied.
For me, I spray some grass and weeds and in 2 days brown, dead DOA.
The crops we eat are sprayed and the chemical has no effect on them, they absorb the chemical but nothing, then we eat it.
This may be as controversial as discussing the use OEM fluids to any other fluids.
Be your own judge some great info out there to base decision on.
Lots of controversy over glyphosate is safe or not. Educate yourself through some google searches where universities have performed studies.
I do know this! Most non row crops now are round-up ready, the seeds have been modified so that the glyphosate in round-up will not kill the plants. Corn and beans here are planted no till. Application of round-up applied, seeds planted later, plants get 6" to a foot tall and second application of glyphosate is applied.
For me, I spray some grass and weeds and in 2 days brown, dead DOA.
The crops we eat are sprayed and the chemical has no effect on them, they absorb the chemical but nothing, then we eat it.
This may be as controversial as discussing the use OEM fluids to any other fluids.
Be your own judge some great info out there to base decision on.
I have a middle of the road thought on weed control. If the weeds in question are mostly annual weeds, mow to keep from going to seed, and then rake off when you need to plant or till. Perennial weeds I dig if possible to get the roots or spot apply roundup. However the really noxious perennial weeds seem to die back but then return the following year in the same spot even after 2 successive applications of spray. Yesterday I was attacking a couple of giant ones in my pasture with the tractor
now weeding with the 3560 bucket is fun! I "need" a piranha tooth bar. I don't use roundup or any other spray in my veggie patch, but use weed mat to make walk ways. Very labor intensive though.
now weeding with the 3560 bucket is fun! I "need" a piranha tooth bar. I don't use roundup or any other spray in my veggie patch, but use weed mat to make walk ways. Very labor intensive though.shootem604
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As I understand, glyphos works by blocking the development of amino acids in the plant, and the roundup ready crops simply have more of the necessary receptors so they can grow properly even with some blocked by the gly phos. I use the stuff to keep the black berries from taking over, but that's it.
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About that time again, heading to the deer lease this weekend to hog the food plots and the paths.
I'll hog the plots then spray next weekend to kill them, followed a week later with the disk harrow.
We will plant around the 1st of September, will be oats and wheat again this year. Wet here so the disking will help dry it out some for planting about a month away.
You guys and gals getting the land ready for hunting and plots?
I'll hog the plots then spray next weekend to kill them, followed a week later with the disk harrow.
We will plant around the 1st of September, will be oats and wheat again this year. Wet here so the disking will help dry it out some for planting about a month away.
You guys and gals getting the land ready for hunting and plots?
Things were going well on my hunting land this year...spring plots looking decent, getting ready for fall plots in the next week or so. But, we had a huge storm come through parts of WI last Friday night. It caused destruction like I have never seen. Trees down all over by our cottage. My hunting land is devastated. If it was a mature tree, it either got snapped off or uprooted. Most seem to have been uprooted. My trails and ridgeline are a total mess. They claim 80-100 mph straight line winds. Trees are all laying in the same direction.
I don't normally ask for help, but I am trying to assemble a crew to come back and help me clean out my access trails and the main ridge in the near future.
I am going to make an attempt to salvage the upcoming hunting season.
I don't normally ask for help, but I am trying to assemble a crew to come back and help me clean out my access trails and the main ridge in the near future.
I am going to make an attempt to salvage the upcoming hunting season.
Don't have to deal with cultivating food plots here, the row crop farmers handle that chore with corn and soybeans.
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Sounds like you just got hit with the same one that ripped through here, we got spared, we're in a valley and the direction of it went across us!
Nope, too far south. When Pioneer closed their Findlay, Ohio plant, that was the end of sugar beets around here. Mostly grown in the thumb area of Michigan now because that is where the processor is. Transportation costs are too much to make them a profitable crop here.
You can buy them as deer enticement but they like apples better and on my ground up north it's now a no feed' the deer because of CWD.
Why I'm not hunting up there this fall. With the CWD, every deer must be state inspected and pass before you can do anything with it.
No CWD down here so it's cull, dress, process, freeze and consume.
I have a feeling that eventually, the entire state will be CWD and that will destroy the sport hunting business here, not that it's a flourishing industry. Bearing Arms just did an op-ed about the declining hunter population. Kids today, for the most part, are not interested.
I feel your pain Mike, back in 2003 hurricane Juan went through my hunting spot and destroyed it. There were so many tree's down there was no way to predict which way the deer were travelling then a few years later they clear cut it. If I was only closer you could count me in for help.
Dang, if I was closer I’d give you a hand, I lived just down the road from you in winneconne about 14 yrs ago.