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Weird year so far for me...at my farm in SE Iowa, which is OFTEN dry, we have been getting a fair amount of rain so far this year. We had a relatively dry May, but not terrible, and then we have picked up some nice rains since then. So, all in all, good at this time. Meanwhile, 75 miles north...

Nice. Yeah, we used to have "some" greys here in Iowa too, but they are rarely seen these days. I did have one on trail cam several times, as did at least one of my neighbors, about 5 to 7 years ago now. I never did see it live, nor did I ever get any info on if someone around me caught it...

Love it! Where did you get the grey?

Great! That's all I need...more equipment to plant water based food plots! :)

Bee related...I can't remember if I shared this already, or not. We are in the process of building a new house and shop and I put in a nice, large pond late last summer. (It is not yet full, as we just can't seem to get any amount of rain to fill it up, drat.) It is probably a surface acre...

Ha! Good thread topic. It has been enough years since my first foray that I am not 100% sure which one of these came first, but they are all from the "early days" AND share a theme of me being a complete noob. :) I got a bag of who knows what and just whipped it out by hand over standing...

I too shot many a deer with aluminum arrows and I still like the "feel", but I also don't miss the constant bending, however slight, of the shafts. Even a miss into hard dirt was enough to sometimes tweak an arrow, etc.

If I am understanding your situation correctly...you could either leave it and let the WW die off and fade away OR mow it high now, knocking down the WW and releasing the clover below. That WW will not be 3 or 4 foot tall this fall, you may be able to see some stalks/stems, but it will die back.

Yeah but it will take YEARS to draw that tag. :)

Already some GREAT stories here, congrats gents, keep them coming. Short, short version...I had a dream of having my own land going back over 45 years ago, when I would "use" my Study Hall period in HS to draw my dream farm. :) My real farms now look nothing like the drawings of yesteryear...

Hmmm...I was planning on drilling some new switch here soon with my PH drill. The shallowest depth setting is 1/2", how do you achieve 1/4", max, depth? I could monkey around with the draft, but feel like that would be highly variable in "real field" planting conditions.

I drilled beans on Saturday and had corn planted on Sunday. We finally got some good rains Monday and Tuesday. Am I crazy to think that I could spray pre-emergent on these fields this Friday?

I feel ya Hawk32. I bought a PH 5' last year about this time. While I could use it with my 40HP...it wasn't ideal, so I bought a 60HP and that handles it just fine. I am happy with the drill and have used it some, but still have some learning curve in front of me. I planted beans this past...

Good memory...sort of. :) Actually, I have sold the Truax and have a PH Outdoors 5' that I have used a little bit so far, but will be using it more coming right up.

Congrats! I always say that one gobble after 10:00A is a killable bird. I have shot A LOT of toms between 10:00A and noon.