NE South Dakota June Report
It's been a crazy Spring in South Dakota with cold temps through 3 weeks of May, Planting was conducted later than normal and crops were slow to get going due to the temps. But now that it has warmed up and with good rains, if not too much in some places, the Crops are exploding. Attached are three photos:
1st one is of my corn planted north of a tree belt with a low spot about 1/5th of the way down the plot taken 2 May.
2nd one is of a 2 acre corn plot planted next to wheat, pasture and canary grass, this corn is exploding, photo taken 20 June.
3rd photo is of millet planted in a sandy spot next to slough ground and an old farm stead where I planted 3 acres of corn with millet on the edges. Millet was planted on 30 May, and was up on 5 June. This photo was taken on 20 June. Stuff is a little weedy.
An observation this Spring was you could drive for miles and not see any birds, then once you find a farmer that didn't tile his slough, left some cover along a field edge or CPR and you saw the birds. Some of our neighbors are starting to remove the trees in the fields and bury the rock piles along with removing the brush along those areas. Habitat will continue to be challenged. Just my 2 cents
I will be going back on July 2nd will have to spray the millet unless it's too tall. Hope to walk some of the edges to see how the hatch was. No mowing on our property so the pheasants have a chance.
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