Things are growing.......

[UGUIDE]

Warmth, rains, sun......things are starting to pop. Milo food plots are coming. Corn/Bean plots are coming. I'll be excited when I see any warm season grasses in the new CRP that was planted.

We tried flail mowing some milo plots and there was a lot of mulch litter there and we just planted right into them. They are not coming as fast as ones that were disked but I suspect soil temps were cooler, etc and will take more time to develop.

This year on the milo I tried Harness Extra herbicide and 10 gallons to the acre of liquid fertilizer.

Talked to a farmer in Miller SD who planted corn 5 weeks ago and hasn't seen any come up in some fields.

What's everyone else seeing out there.

 

[1GB]

I've got a variety of things coming up. The first sorghum I got in the ground is now 3"-5" tall. I did seed too heavy though and am really surprised at how much germination I've gotten given my rudimentary equipment to work the soil this year. So I've run a harrow through it to thin it out and it's helped - I'll watch what happens and take it as a learning experience. The crabgrass is really coming on strong as well, which I should have anticipated since last year I didn't get rid of it. Next year I'll keep it a non-grass plot and nail it with a grass selective herbicide.

My second plot - I've got volunteer buckwheat up to 3" tall among a more properly applied rate of sorghum that's 1"-3" tall. So far there are some broadleaf weeds, but I'm cool with anything else that wants to produce seed, even if it's weed seeds.

I've got 2 other spots, broadcasted with buckwheat and millet respectively, and while the buckwheat is really coming to life, I don't see much millet in the other. I do have excess millet seed still, so I can try again and harrow some in is my top-broadcasted approach doesn't work.

My second year NWSG was growing earlier this year, but it's hard to find much now. I'll remain hopeful though.

The tree/shrub plantings are doing really well though. Some of my crabapples in particular are putting on a lot of growth in this first part of the year. :cheers:

 

[moellermd]

Talked to a farmer in Miller SD who planted corn 5 weeks ago and hasn't seen any come up in some fields.

5 weeks is a stretch. Corn around here might make knee high by the 4th of June of the early planted stuff.

 

[birdman652001]

Warmth, rains, sun......things are starting to pop. Milo food plots are coming. Corn/Bean plots are coming. I'll be excited when I see any warm season grasses in the new CRP that was planted.


This year on the milo I tried Harness Extra herbicide and 10 gallons to the acre of liquid fertilizer.

Talked to a farmer in Miller SD who planted corn 5 weeks ago and hasn't seen any come up in some fields.

What's everyone else seeing out there.

Establish or Intro works better on milo when you apply fertilizer to that, 15 gallons per acre would be better.

hmm.. talking to farmers in Miller, SD? no balls to come to Blunt and have a chat with me? LOL i do work for kroeplin's ag service which is in Blunt, Highmore and Miller.


corn here was planted i say two weeks ago are now popping up to ankle high.

wheat are good, oats are good, ive been super busy as this year has been an awesome year for farmers with all the moisture and it hasnt gotten extremely hot so its keeping the ground moist.

 

[UGUIDE]

Establish or Intro works better on milo when you apply fertilizer to that, 15 gallons per acre would be better.

Thanks, I will keep that in mind for next year.

 

[birdman652001]

Thanks, I will keep that in mind for next year.

we do sell food plot seeds too. I think we got our from legend seeds, i think its Cock and something else. but i'll look tmr and get pricing as well.



are you doing switchgrass as well or what? what are your plots bordered with?

 

[benelli-banger]

any thoughts out there on what I should pay my farmer buddy who disked my 10 acre food plot twice, and now has planted it with corn, and also, has applied some product that repels pheasants???? Think I paid him $600 last year, but it was a different seed mix that we used and he may have disked it three times...thanks.

 

[UGUIDE]

we do sell food plot seeds too. I think we got our from legend seeds, i think its Cock and something else. but i'll look tmr and get pricing as well.
are you doing switchgrass as well or what? what are your plots bordered with?

I've got several blocks of warm season grasses. In the plot I use a milo and a short cane, half and half in the drill. In other plots I mix corn/beans/ dry fert and broadcast and use roundup as a rotation.

On those chemicals lools like Inttro is alachlor and I have used a generic of that with atrazine added. Harness active is different than the Establish active ingredient. Its the pidgeon grass and sandbur that it needs to work on.

 

[UGUIDE]

any thoughts out there on what I should pay my farmer buddy who disked my 10 acre food plot twice, and now has planted it with corn, and also, has applied some product that repels pheasants???? Think I paid him $600 last year, but it was a different seed mix that we used and he may have disked it three times...thanks.

BB, I was going to say about $20/acre per pass so that would be close.

I figure with fert/herb/seed/fuel I have got $75/acre in my 40 acres of food plots and that does not factor in my time or wear/tear on the equipment. Nor does it factor taking that ground out of production which is another $100/acre.

Figure conservatively there is $200/acre the that food plots cost time 40 acres and that comes out to a total cost of about $8000.00. That's every year.

 

[benelli-banger]

Thanks, Chris...I don't think he fertilized, so there would have been 2 passes disking, one planting, and perhaps one more to apply the pheasant repellent...or, could the latter have been done at the same time planting was happening? Anyhow, it sounds like $600 is probably a bit low...true? Again, thanks so much for your help...hope 2010 is a great year in every respect for you!

 

[UGUIDE]

Thanks, Chris...I don't think he fertilized, so there would have been 2 passes disking, one planting, and perhaps one more to apply the pheasant repellent...or, could the latter have been done at the same time planting was happening? Anyhow, it sounds like $600 is probably a bit low...true? Again, thanks so much for your help...hope 2010 is a great year in every respect for you!

Banger, I would think the repellent is applied to seed before it is put in ground. I would think $20 per pass plus materials cost is reasonable.

 

[birdman652001]

I've got several blocks of warm season grasses. In the plot I use a milo and a short cane, half and half in the drill. In other plots I mix corn/beans/ dry fert and broadcast and use roundup as a rotation.

On those chemicals lools like Inttro is alachlor and I have used a generic of that with atrazine added. Harness active is different than the Establish active ingredient. Its the pidgeon grass and sandbur that it needs to work on.

Atrazine is a herbicide i rarely use but i did use it tonight on a field and man it stinks high heaven.

Inttro i used on my boss's land as he likes that also on the field next to it, i use Established. i will be watching that field and see how it goes!!


alot of people will use spartan charge for their herbicide.

Buck N Cock is the food plot i was talking about. and its made from Platte, SD.


when you need seed for next year, let me know and i will see what kind of pricing we can get for you. i mean if you can be in Miller and highmore area, i think you could make blunt area as well.

 

[UGUIDE]

Buck N Cock is the food plot i was talking about. and its made from Platte, SD.

when you need seed for next year, let me know and i will see what kind of pricing we can get for you. i mean if you can be in Miller and highmore area, i think you could make blunt area as well.

B-Man, thanks but I already buy my seed direct from the seed exchange in Platte. Get all my CRP grass seed there too. Good guys. I like the one called "Huntin Time" better than the B & C. It is a short cane. I blend that with the free milo I get from PF in Wagner.