Recent content by Daver

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...

All - I intend to purchase a quantity of fruit trees from Gingerich Tree Farm in Illinois right around Oct. 1st this year. Instead of paying for shipping, etc, I am strongly considering going to get them myself. I have a nice covered (car) trailer that can be used so the trees would be...

I wonder if you were to add some more "structure" to your switch by planting some miscanthus in it too if that would help. I have visited a farm where this was done and the deer beds were everywhere next to that miscanthus, in the switch. I have tried to duplicate that on my place, but have...

I am curious about this subject too. I have long had an impression that deer, particularly bucks, will bed in CRP in the summer...A LOT. They tend to be in the shade of the random tree(s) scattered in the grass IMO. I think they are also in the "open" to avoid horseflies. Those big, nasty...

I stopped by the semi-local (North Liberty) multi-brand heavy duty mower dealer today at lunch only to find that they are not currently in their North Liberty facility, but rather Hiawatha. So, strike out. Harrumph. I appreciate the input and am not ignoring the warnings on slope and ZTR's...

Gents - I intend to get a new ZTR sometime soon and would like to hear your input on this. I have, or have had, and been happy with, Toro Timecutters. I gave one to my son, we still use the other one. I would buy another Toro, but...I have one problem at our new place that I would like to...

Not good!

That's why I always wear hearing protection (ear muffs) while mowing. Then I never hear any problems, everything runs longer that way. ;) :)

In my experience, damage "high" on the plant (silk/tassel) is deer. Stalks knocked over, etc, is coon.

:oops: Yikes! Please tell me the whole field wasn't this bad! If you are just losing the first, say, 50' to 100', of a 60 acre field that is one thing. If you are seeing this amount of damage over a wide area of that field, then it is time for some serious doe patrol. :D