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Haha right. It sounds like a promising product from what I’ve heard. Good luck to you Remy!

2,4D should clean that up nicely when you get a chance. The weather game with plots is a tough one to play. I’m trying Milo with cereal grains this year. Hoping the grains will work to combat weeds a bit but planning on using 2,4D as well. Got it in on the 17th which is a later than I’d like...

Fun indeed! Don’t think my CP2 side will be as fun to watch establish as the pollinator. Looking at a couple more pics, I think there’s more bare ground there overall when you take a top down look. At least in some spots. Some non-planted vetch below.

Eesh now you’ve got me worried. They recommended I mow once the first year and as needed years 2 and 3 to control unwanteds. I didn’t think/wasn’t told to mow during the second year growing season since now those stratified forbs will just be starting off and need light. But it was pretty thin...

Some pics of the second year pollinator ground on 6/17. Looks pretty good so far - some unwanteds of course but plenty of good stuff. Seems there's good diversity and structure in there. I spotted daisy fleabane, clover, foxglove beardtongue, giant ragweed, sunflower. Lots yet to bloom so hard...

Agree with you all. This bill shows that congress is likely to try to cut CRP & other conversation programs (lower enrolled acres cap, rental rates, etc.) when they start drafting the Farm Bill later. Actual conservation (CRP, EQUIP) funding is included in the Farm Bill which isn’t included in...

Nice work 👍🏼 Should be fun watching it grow

I think you have a solid plan, it's just difficult with a one dog/man show sometimes. I'd only say that you could spice up the routine a bit in how you walk the patches in case they have you figured out - I.e. the birds all huddle in the middle in the 20 acre patch if they know you usually skirt...

Ever try Avipel seed treatment? Found this on Facebook Link to buy some online https://www.keystonepestsolutions.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=62

That’s about the most diversity in mixes that you could get! My pollinator CRP planting has 5 grasses and 16 forbs so you’re well above that. My CP2 planting this year has 5 grasses and just 3 forbs. Different purposes, different seed mix.

Sweet! Sounds like you're doing all the right things. I bet your work will clean it up nicely.

Wanted to share a couple pics I took yesterday while out planting some shrubs and spruce. Farmers were out working the land, I could almost hear grass growing, shrubs were blossoming. It’s a beautiful time of year. Enjoy. Plum tree that I didn’t know I had. Might try to encourage suckering...

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?