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    Brood Reports?

    Any brood reports out there in Iowa? I saw my first brood at our farm in Eastern Iowa a week ago today when I was spraying our food plots - got out to pull the booms back in and a hen jumped up about 5 foot away from me in our clover fire break, walked over there and a handful of 3-4 day old...
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    Pollinator Mix Going In

    I think what you've got there is phenomenal. The structure is perfect IMO.
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    Pollinator Mix Going In

    Looks awesome!
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    The hatch is happening in NW IA and replanting plots.

    From the sounds of it, there is probably one thing our farm will have better than yours this year, and that is the food plots. Those look great. Have not seen many birds around to use them - hopefully they are out there!
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    Where Have All the Birds Gone?

    In Iowa's case - it is pretty simple. Where there is habitat, and quite a bit of it, the birds flourish. Where it is very isolated and not much habitat, the birds are harder to find, but still around. Even with the ups and downs of weather, etc., the places that have high-quality habitat have a...
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    Food plot prep work is beginning

    You are definintely the first I have heard having these issues. I don't think I've seen any PF articles explaining how to keep all the pheasants from eating all of your seed before it germinates..
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    Food plot prep work is beginning

    That is amazing - good problem to have I suppose. I would be happy to see just one pheasant digging in our food plots!
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    Reeds Canary Grass to Switchgrass Project

    Was a bit nervous - but I figured even if I killed some switch, the benefits of killing the canary would far outweigh it. Worst case, some of these barespots should sport some ragweed or other forbes that the pheasants enjoy!
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    Reeds Canary Grass to Switchgrass Project

    Here is what the project looks like post-spray this Spring. Almost all of the taller grass is switch - the brown stuff was primarily the RCG that was sprayed in late April. Pretty happy with this so far - will keep everyone posted on how it progresses through the year. Hoping this knocked the...
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    CRP Contract Length, 10 or 15 years?

    I know the current program we are looking at pays about $50 less per acre than it would have last year. Only 3 tiers instead of 5 now, no 10% inflation adjustment, and no incentive for seeding type, or something like that.
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    CRP Contract Length, 10 or 15 years?

    Grappling with the same decision now. I tend to side with remy on this one - would rather take a (potentially) smaller payment that is locked in for longer than hope these programs are offered in the future, and also at a higher rate.
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    Food plot prep work is beginning

    How much fertilizer do you use? Do you rotate food plot sights at all, let any go to second year, etc. ? Looks like a great seed bed.
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    Reeds Canary Grass to Switchgrass Project

    Update on this - will try and get some pictures in the coming weeks. The switch did quite well last year, though there is still plenty of reeds canary grass mixed in. We did a burn in early April, and 2.5 weeks ago I hit the whole thing with glyphosate (the cool season RCG was greening up like...
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    Food plot prep work is beginning

    We got our corn plots planted last weekend, about 6 acres in total. Will be planting about 4 acres of sorghum either next week or the week following. Thinking about trying something different for a pre emergent this year, possibly atrazine + s-metalochlor combination.
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    Food plot prep work is beginning

    Will use some Prowl on the sorghum - nothing on the corn (other than a one or two shots of glyphosate )
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