Recent content by Daver

Skin over bones there, bummer.

I am not for or against any particular post/frame builder, but I can't imagine that whatever long lasting qualities you desire could not be satisfied via many different builders. I just don't know what would make a Morton building better than anything else assuming that the same level of...

Does your purchase agreement have any language (contingencies) that gives you an out here? Frankly, a well written purchase agreement should have that protective language, IMO. I have dealt with a sticky easement issue within the last 18 months and I can tell you that the numbskull at the...

Another thought...one time, when I had "BIG" weeds and grass that I first mowed, then sprayed and had a really thick mat of dead vegetation I then scraped A LOT of it off the plot with 3 point device that is actually a dethatcher. Actually, I didn't even scrape all of it off of the field due to...

Just to be clear...I have had good success many times with brassicas and some thatch, but with weeds at 8' to 10' tall he is going to have A LOT of thatch. IMO, too much for the circumstances.

With that ^^ description...I am going to say that you will want to burn, or drag off, the chaff. Some thatch is OK for brassicas, but too much though is a formula for uneven germination IMO. Brassicas need/want kind of bare soil in my experience.

Funny thing...I too had never seen one quite so white in my life...until last night. :oops: I saw one outside in my yard at our new house, about 2 miles outside of Iowa City. Broad daylight still, running along the top of the pond dam where I have it mowed. Soooooo...Daver is going to see if...

I can't recall ever seeing one that white in person. Cool mount!

True, I almost always get multiples too.

As an owner of compact to mid sized tractors and user of various attachments, 3 point, pull behind, loader mounted, etc. I find the need to buy various hitch pins, clevises, bushings, etc, etc, and have been having more difficulties finding what I am looking for in the last year or so. Around...

I don't want to hijack your question, but I hope I haven't been supposed to put down 13 bags of urea per acre!!! :) FWIW, for brassicas, I normally put down 4, maybe 5, bags and call it good. Now then...do I get record growth? No, probably not, but I get plenty of boost to the plants at that...

ALL of those things ^^ are big factors, I totally agree. But the biggest, IMO, is the cell cam surveillance that is so prevalent. I still remember tying fishing line across a deer trail to see if it got knocked off to then know that a deer, most likely, had walked a given trail. Stone age...

I have had trouble with brassica germination in the past when I tried to work through too much thatch. Some is good, but you have to get your seed on /in the soil and not have such a mat of grass that it suppresses germination. It is hard to define "too much", but I do recognize the look of it...

Be careful if you mow next to a post with an exposed fluke...they can tear up a sidewall on your mower tire real quick like. (Don't ask me how I know. :) )

Any county in Iowa could work here, what I would be looking for though if I was starting with a blank slate is...ISOLATION. 100 acres of cover surrounded by LOTS of Ag would be my goal. Any scenario that allows a buck to get to 5+ years old will produce giants here, IMO. But, as others have...