How fast conditions change.

remy3424

remy3424

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We had been very short on moisture in my pocket, but the last 3 weeks or so has changed this. Getting dumped on during the hatch, but I am guessing we will be just fine. On a positive note, the 3rd planting in the food plots is growing fast. Just need to get them sprayed, will try to do that tomorrow.

***over 6 inches in the last 15 days
 
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The rain has been a nice change after all the drought we have seen for the last 3 years. I'm a little apprehensive about chick mortality though.
 
A friend saw 3 broods on Saturday that he estimated were less then a week old. They may not have survived the storms.
 
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I sprayed about 4 acres of food plot this afternoon, saw one chick and he was small, but got airborne! Hope to spray the remaining tomorrow, winds, should be much calmer.
 
Finished spraying the plots today. Took a pic of the plot I left yesterday, if you zoom-in, the left side you can see the velvet leaves, but on the right side (where I sprayed yesterday), they are all rolled and wilted. In this plot, there were a lot of places with no sorghum. I will feed them al least once more and then, let things be what they will be. The sorghum no just needs to out grow the foxtail. Next year I am gpoing to burndown everything with glyphosate about May 1, to take care of the encroaching grass and Canadian thistles, milkweeds etc.
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remy3424 said:
We had been very short on moisture in my pocket, but the last 3 weeks or so has changed this. Getting dumped on during the hatch, but I am guessing we will be just fine. On a positive note, the 3rd planting in the food plots is growing fast. Just need to get them sprayed, will try to do that tomorrow.

***over 6 inches in the last 15 days
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6 inches over a 2 week span isn't bad. If that was over 1-2 days I would be concerned.
 
Received .45" over the weekend and a bit over .8" last night. The crops look awesome around here. The last several years the chicks had hot & dry weather to deal with, at least it has been warm with these rains. We had a pretty awesome carry-over, there will be a bumper crop of birds again if we aren't careful!

I am going to get out to the food plots and see what I have after spraying. Really hope the broadleaf plants are burned down to nothing.
 
remy3424 said:
Received .45" over the weekend and a bit over .8" last night. The crops look awesome around here. The last several years the chicks had hot & dry weather to deal with, at least it has been warm with these rains. We had a pretty awesome carry-over, there will be a bumper crop of birds again if we aren't careful!

I am going to get out to the food plots and see what I have after spraying. Really hope the broadleaf plants are burned down to nothing.
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Let us know how the food plots look!
 
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The corn in southwest MN went from a foot tall the first week of June to over my head this past week. Some of it has already started to tassel too.
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My father always said, "Knee high by the 4th of July". Here in SW Kansas these days much of the corn has tassels by the 4th of July. The crops here in my part of the world look really good.
 
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I've heard that saying too. It's insane how quick it grows when the right conditions appear.
 
The climate has seemed to have changed here, another 1.25" of rain this week. Here are a couple pics of some of the food plots. A lot of grass coming through, but at least I have finally have some of the target crop survive. That sorghum needs to get growing and heading out.
food plot velvet leaf.jpglower plot.jpgupper plot 7-12.jpg
There was a patch of Canada thistles in the below pic, I slowed down and gave them a big shot...they didn't like that. Not sure if that gray blob in the below pic was a bird or something on my lens.
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There are different food plots pictured, each of these were planted 3 times. The fist planting had one-third corn and the the balance wes sorghum. In the second pic above you can see one corn plant that survived (upper right), the birds really got after the seeds. I ended up spreading shelled corn with a 3 pt, spreader on the utility tractor inside the hedgerow that can be seen in the second pic. I did that 5 times, to give the birds an easier food source while the sorghum got big enough that they wouldnt dig it up. It worked, but what a pia.
 
Nice, looks like the 2,4D got the broadleaves well! Have you ever noticed any effect from spraying on the Milo? Mines maybe 10” now. Might try to clean it up too.
 
I certainly could have, on a label I just googled, (similar hericide) for grain sorghum 5-15" high...use drops if over 8". This label said 2 thirds of a pint/acre, I thought mine said 1 pint...I used 1 pint and I am not equipped with drops, so some crop damage would not be a surprise, I didn't have much for options.
I have a food plot on a different farm, waaay fewer pheasants there, I had a great stand of corn and sorghum from the inital planting, the corn must have been close to 30" high, the label I just saw said, for corn under 8" tall....we'll see what happens. Very little corn to worry about in the food plots in the crp.
 
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