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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