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Got 25 crabapple trees in the ground this weekend. All the fencing and posts were more work than I thought it’d be especially before I had some help come. But hey, hopefully it’s a plant once and be done ordeal. The roosters were out there crowing all day. Saw my first field being planted as I...

Let the fun begin! I frost seeded switchgrass this winter along a spruce border I planted last year. Hopefully, that eventually takes well. Would love to have a nice screen. At the end of the month, I have 25 crabapples, 25 Highbush cranberry, 25 black chokeberry, and 50 spruce to plant. Will...

Great stuff. Helped start 125 chapters!

I'm taking the below quote from your post to mean you don't burn it all every 3rd year, but 1/3 of the acres every year. I guess I wasn't following if you were breaking up your fields even more so than one 25 acre block out of 75, but rather were burning 25 acres of the 75 in non-contiguous...

With your 75 acre field example, if you’re burning 25 acres of it yearly, isn’t that 1/3 of your acres every year? Sorry, not entirely following. Or, is that 75 acres broken up into lots of individual chunks with clover in between, and you burn a total of 25 acres of it each year?

Looks like there’s truth to that. Here’s what AI had to say about it. “Yes, wild pheasants likely have a difficult time digesting agricultural soybeans due to the trypsin inhibitors in raw soybeans. These inhibitors interfere with protein digestion, which can make soybeans a poor food choice...

Interesting take but corn has more energy for the birds in cold weather. It’s the ideal cold weather food. Corns = carbs. Beans = protein. I’m with A5.

There you go. Looks like there’s a practice for grasslands CRP for pasture land or hay that you might be enrolled in, McFarmer?

Yeah, I can see your point. I think CRP has the requirement of row crops 3 of 5 years since they have a limited # of acres to enroll and want to focus on putting ground into CRP that is the most environmentally beneficial. I.e. Grass or alfalfa has a much lower chance of eroding soil than row...

Made quick work of it! Wow. Give it all you’ve got with the food plot this year!

True true. What do you normally do with the prior year plots before planting? Just brush hog it down?

One more thing you could think about with the plots - possibly rotating out of Milo for a year to reset the soil. Just thinking it might be that your soil is tired of straight milo? Or, cover crop with rye in the fall. The rye would add soil nutrients and naturally suppress spring weeds before...

Nice pics of the snowy landscape. Looks like the grass is holding up well. That’s good to see! Like the look of the shelterbelt in the second to last pic with those beefy cedars. That should block snow and wind nicely.

True that. Take some pics if you get a chance. Always enjoy pics of the property!

Not bad ideas, Remy. For me, it’s hard in winter around my area when the farmers turn the ground over, and it snows a couple of inches. Now I don’t necessarily think birds hurt too much in fluffier snow, but I do think harvested fields are a guessing game for birds in poking around and trying...