Recent content by TheBig8

I have a few Rednecks, one Banks and and a few Titans. The Rednecks are easily the best of the three for me. The Banks leaks everywhere and the OSB floor is warped from all the water. The Titans are junk and I'd never spend another dollar on them. More flies inside them than any of the rest...

Was told recently from a logger they aren't worth much anymore. Apparently they just don't have the market they once had. Too bad because I have some beauties on my property. Very nice looking wood. Also had a forester tell me they are shallow rooted so if you do a timber harvest and they are...

Tuning in as well, always wanted to try them!

Love it @DMarley83 !!! Great story and memory with your daughter, great buck too!

Called my county FSA office today and they said they're waiting on the federal offices to release the money to them for local payment. She speculated maybe next week sometime.

Winke's Southern Iowa farm was going down hill before cell cams became as prevalent as they are now, fwiw.

I can't remember who said it or where I saw it posted, paraphrased, "everyone wants to talk about antler inches, the only inch that matters is the 1/2" your trigger finger moves"

Well the weather snuck up on us this fall. While waiting for more of the tree canopy to drop, the weather was too windy for a spraying last week, then this past weekend we had a pretty hard frost of ~20° overnight low. Do you guys think the honeysuckle went dormant after that frost? Of course...

How about an update on this?

If it's all timbered land, can you edge feather it into an impenetrable forest that the deer won't use except for possibly a few spots which would be the same as the one way gate theory?

I've had CIR switch do similar things and then when it dries up in late Sept/early Oct it will stiffen up a little and stand a bit taller.

Wanted to follow up on this. Used a no till drill to drill brassicas through these beans and it worked good to great. Areas with heavier growth of brassicas seem to be the tire tracks that flattened beans better. Photos from Aug 31 of brassicas planted Aug 2. Going to be a lot of food out there...

I've broadcast NWSG/forbs by lightly wetting down some oats (appropriate rate for given area) and then mixing the NWSG mix with them. The fluffies stick to the oats and broadcast well that way. I wonder if the same could be done and then put in a drill box? I don't see why not, just have to be...

Yes wheat will over winter better than oats. You can run into a problem with too many cereals surviving until the next year. Oats, IMO offer premier attraction for 45 days post planting AND they are gone in the spring when the rye, peas, and clovers fill in. Double benefit. YMMV

Keep in mind, you get nitrogen "credit" from your organic matter in your soil as well. I've seen estimates of about 20-25# of nitrogen per 1% OM. Having healthy soil and rotating crops that fix nitrogen can be cost beneficial to your wallet and is better in the long run than dumping endless...