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Bought some farmland that we will build our house on that is continguous to the 6 acres we presently live on near Topeka - Our land goes all the way and butts up to Forbes Air Base/Air port -- It's been discontinued as a commercial airport for a # of years - but private aviation, the national...

Those same arguments are the same ones I heard from the "old heads" around me that are stuck in their ways. I'm no means young - but middle aged - probably about 5 yrs or so older than the neighbor that will farm next year - he's making money with cover crops, starting to plant milo and wheat...

They'll eat it both quail, pheasants, chickens - but beans are complete shit for wildlife. The OP I believe was mentioning he wanted to increase his quail #'s - having beans around is completely counterintuitive to that. There's plenty of information online and here on this forum as to why...

A guy near me does that - still has to spray but I dont think as much. Get rid of your BEANS -- they are garbage for any wildlife -- I just bought some land and an existing farming agreement was in place with someone that just plants corn/beans - next year they will not farm it and the other...

I went through KC yesterday to an appointment near Columbia MO -- anyways on the way back home stopped at the KC Cabelas and another spot in the mall -- The Adidas store didnt have much to choose from and I was surprised how little stock they had - Cabelas as well - not that full of merchandise...

My buddy has been using that around Kinsley and other areas he manages in the vicinity and works good for him - the diesel "sticks" to the bark and penetrates it along with the herbicide -- he's killed quite large trees with this method - after they're good and dead you can knock em over and...

I meant the big ones -- correct me if I'm wrong but thinking they are native -- and I hear ya about a disturbance -- I've learned that the hard way on the 6 acres/forest we moved to as I've been clearing it out - I think a fire got hot enough this spring it killed several sprouting up in the...

No not really - trees do not belong on the prairie - native plants and grasses/forbs with some sporadic woody cover will do wonders for mr Quail, turkeys and deer not to mention multitudes of other wildlife. I expect a lot of wood burning save for the trees I want to keep as a privacy barrier...

Deer and quail dont live in trees. People from the eastern part of the US and eastern half of KS dont understand that. /Sarcasm -- :) I like native plants - not honeysuckle, crap elms and dead - pretty much all worthless. There'd be more wildlife on the place if all the trees were gone...

Ha - they're far and few between but I'm hoping to change that Deer on the other hand - shoot them all - dont mind seeing them but they're over populated around here - Hope to have some doe killing shoots with friends or local kids if Im motivated to get some blinds set up so we're not...

Been wanting to have a chunk of land for many years -- finally had the opportunity present itself and we've been waiting since last fall for it to happen. Closed on it yesterday - land butts up to our house so w our existing 6 acres it's nearly 80 -- has a public trail running through it so...

Hi Maynard - hopefully you dont wait 2 yrs again before coming back...:D In NE KS we are super wet as usual -- i'm tired of the rain - but the pleasant spring for the most part has been extremely nice - I dont recall in years a spring being this decent and drawn out - I may have jinxed us and...

My perspective and you have your own is that you may take some of the comments too personal - none are directed at guys that work with wildlife and I dont think it can be disputed that changes in farming practices IMO which have been largely driven by "Big Ag" as I call it are detrimental to...

I have the same case -- either my dad or grandpa likely bought it new -- red leather though. I need to get the zipper replaced -- it's broken - other than that in great shape. Been meaning to take it in for years to get it fixed but have never done so...ha.

I am not a tax code nerd -- but....I'm thinking that you are supposed to self report mileage driven and pay tax on miles driven possibly? I'm probably wrong - but was thinking there was something in the tax code that addressed that in regards to making your own bio fuels etc -- Something I...

I've been in a model S and yes the performance is extremely impressive. Definitely post some pix of the purchase - but as a car guy I can't get into the looks -- Kind of as off putting as a Pontiac Aztek, but what I find attractive and someone else is not going to be the same. I dont think...

I'd wager the seed/chemical companies and their lobbies will go to work with disinformation. Would love if they could make money working with nature instead of against it.

Troy - I love Finance and Arbitrage -- is there a way I could volunteer to help guys like you with getting the funding for projects like you mentioned or creative ways on how to pay for them? I dont know if that makes sense - But from what you described it seems the upper levels of mgmt may...

None of it will work - all good in principle Dirtheads/Crop farmers are becoming modern day slaves of the bigger Conglomerate Ag Companies mentioned such as ADM, Bayer, Pioneer JD, etc the same way ranchers have partially fallen there and for the most part pork, dairy and poultry producers are...

I dont know where you live - but if you have any mechanical aptitude it's pretty simple and shouldnt cost anywhere near that if you do it yourself. Just depends on your state I guess whether it's feasible.