Recent content by M. R. Byrd

Haven't had much to report this year at the Ponderosa until yesterday and got 1.25" Since the first of the year snows of 6, 2, 2 and 1" maybe at most an inch of moisture. Rains of 0.25, 0.05, 0.05, 0.50, 0.20, 0.10, 0.25" for a total of 1.40", although those little sprinkles don't do much...

An awesome work by that family and others involved. Few have that passion.

At one time we had a concrete hog lot where the self feeder soaked milo in the trough. It also had a lagoon where the hogs could soak and once a week we opened the drain and flushed all the sloped concrete down. This all flowed into a furrowed crop field below. There would be quite a bit of...

Hang on day. Yesterday, March 18th, it was 87 degrees and I sprayed Simazine in the tree rows. During the night it changed from balmy to blizzard. Top winds near 80. Lots of roads closed in Western Kansas. Lots of tree damage and power lines down. Line crews were having trouble getting to the...

I can imagine what the parking was like. I was watching the Big 12 Women's BB Tournament at T-Mobile and also the MIAA tournament at Memorial, then the Pheasant Fest, all down there, it had to be bad for parking. My son will invite us to attend a K-State game at T-Mobile sometimes and he parks...

Some great posts here and it reminded me of so many great times I have had with my sons and taking care of the wildlife. I can see my oldest son's first pheasant with his 20 gauge 1100 left hand. My youngest son received a Browning 20 gauge Micro for Christmas and to his disappointment it had a...

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I recommend a call to Star Seed. They can advise you of seed choices. They have seed mixes that are not listed on their website. I have used them for years and they are my go to guys for both CRP grass mixes and food plot seed. gostarseed.com There are "safened" seed options for milo seed that...

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"Just because you’re a relative doesn’t mean you get to hunt my place" People have no idea what it costs me to provide the benefit to the wildlife that I do. Not only is there the work I do to benefit, such as food plots, burns, interseeding, wildlife plantings, reducing predators, etc., but...

"The better the farmer, the less the pheasants" I can agree with that. My Ponderosa will never make the cover of Successful Farming, but I don't care and neither do the resident pheasants and quail here.

Grasses and forbs and legumes are a good mix for overall upland bird propagation. I call fescue, lawn grass, it will provide a solid nearly impassible ground movement of birds. Big and little bluestem, switchgrass, and Indian grass are what I call clump grasses. These grasses after a few years...

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