UGUIDE
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What's the Pheasant Hood you say? That would be the farm. Where roosters busta move.
It was fun to get back to the farm and farm chores after a 3.5 month absence:
* The week started with mowing off 21 acres of newly planted trees (weeds in between rows) in 2011. That equated to 17 miles of trees mowed.
* The above was in prep to spray those trees with princep. The Kubota was fabricated with an awesome hand throttle thanks to Vogt's Repair in Armour. I can now dial in the specific speed I needed to do the job. Sprayer equipment was a 60 gallon sprayer and 12' boom with fenceline nozzles on each end.
* I bought 5 gallons of princep and only applied 1.5 gallons and one 60 gallon sprayer tank. Came right done to the very last trees so it worked out slick. Figured 4 quarts per acre base on pressure/speed/nozzle. Used way less material that I thought I would.
*Then I mowed off all newly planted CP33 Quail buffers and man the new stuff was coming fast with temps in the 80's
*Dropped in at FSA and offered 200 acres to CP25 in 15 year contract. It should get accepted. It should get accepted. If so I will dormant seed it all this fall as I am having renters plant everything to beans so I can no till right into the bean stubble with no ground prep effort.
*Got my other tractor back from Vogt's repair and flail chopped all 40 acres of milo food plots to get them ready for planting.
I saw ample numbers of birds in just about every piece of cover. no huge numbers but enough to make a good hatch and I have to feel that spring conditions are vastly different this year than the previous 2 years.
The water in the sloughs was down about 50% but there were ducks everywhere.
There was no where that I could not drive and that was not the case last year.
I also saw several dead roosters on the road so if that is a good indication in a sick way I guess it is then.
That's the report from the hood. Here's some photos from the hood trip. :cheers:
Also found these two sheds about 100 yards from each other. Don't look like much in the photo but the mass on the bases were huge. Compare beer can top with base. (official scoring method)
It was fun to get back to the farm and farm chores after a 3.5 month absence:
* The week started with mowing off 21 acres of newly planted trees (weeds in between rows) in 2011. That equated to 17 miles of trees mowed.
* The above was in prep to spray those trees with princep. The Kubota was fabricated with an awesome hand throttle thanks to Vogt's Repair in Armour. I can now dial in the specific speed I needed to do the job. Sprayer equipment was a 60 gallon sprayer and 12' boom with fenceline nozzles on each end.
* I bought 5 gallons of princep and only applied 1.5 gallons and one 60 gallon sprayer tank. Came right done to the very last trees so it worked out slick. Figured 4 quarts per acre base on pressure/speed/nozzle. Used way less material that I thought I would.
*Then I mowed off all newly planted CP33 Quail buffers and man the new stuff was coming fast with temps in the 80's
*Dropped in at FSA and offered 200 acres to CP25 in 15 year contract. It should get accepted. It should get accepted. If so I will dormant seed it all this fall as I am having renters plant everything to beans so I can no till right into the bean stubble with no ground prep effort.
*Got my other tractor back from Vogt's repair and flail chopped all 40 acres of milo food plots to get them ready for planting.
I saw ample numbers of birds in just about every piece of cover. no huge numbers but enough to make a good hatch and I have to feel that spring conditions are vastly different this year than the previous 2 years.
The water in the sloughs was down about 50% but there were ducks everywhere.
There was no where that I could not drive and that was not the case last year.
I also saw several dead roosters on the road so if that is a good indication in a sick way I guess it is then.
That's the report from the hood. Here's some photos from the hood trip. :cheers:
Also found these two sheds about 100 yards from each other. Don't look like much in the photo but the mass on the bases were huge. Compare beer can top with base. (official scoring method)
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