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Have a few options.. but likely going to wait for a couple years to evaluate. Trees are going to be more broken down and it may lose some of it’s structure. I also didn’t do any weed control so I have dirty switch. Ragweed, Goldenrod, Foxtail etc mixed in. I’m not super worried about the...

I had this exact scenario, as my wooded edge was too "open" to see into the field. Hunter access, limited buck use in food plot both factors I wanted to improve. - Year 1: I established switchgrass on a 15 yard buffer along the hard edge along the woods. - Year 2: Edge feathered. Dropped...

IMO - 2 food plots of that size, on opposite ends is fine for 90 acres. Generally speaking, I do prefer fewer plots as they do concentrate the deer, and make hunting easier. If a guy has 4-5 plots on the same acreage, that would not be my preference. Another good strategy is to add a small...

Cold Stream Farm is better than both IMO for bare root seedlings. I’ve gotten a few items from Nativ over the years with mixed results. The plastic bags they ship everything in tend to mold the plants and roots pretty bad. If you don’t get in the ground immediately they won’t survive...

KS Farms will custom build. Discussed with them before, good group. Also RDH Outdoors rebuilds Deere planters on 3 pt bars.

They said they’d stop at 120.. cmon guys, you can trust the government. (Not my county but my neighbor was accidentally sent this from another area in MO). Garbage.

Big 4.5 YO. Dominant buck on our farm. Passed him at 3.5 last year as a 7 point, curious how he would change.. Guess I got my answer. Same frame but lost a point.. Thankfully the neighbor just shot him last week :)

Fire will kill small cedars. Cedar (live or dead) goes up in flames very easily. Cedar will self prune lower limbs in the shade, losing its cover value. Scattered cedars with access to the sun provide the best benefit.

Yes, no problem. I drilled mine (Remlinger).

Opens too many other issues. Disease transfer, etc. Better to fix the root of the cause vs. a band aide fix on the back end. More intervention is not the cure IMO.

About the same amount of "science" used by the CDC the last 4 years..

+1. Agree with all the above. Grain Sorghum is very easy to grow, and very drought resistant (It's regularly grown in TX with low annual rainfalls). Gets hit hard in the cold from November to December here in Central MO. Usually mine is gone by January but I only plant about 1.5 acres...

Agree in my area as well. The majority of does this year never had fawns with them on camera. Our coyote population is extremely high. I have multiple camera pictures of coyotes walking around with fawns in their mouth this past spring.

I have a few farmers around me that are all for it. Area specific I guess..

I appreciate the cover they provide when young. Especially when mixed in with grasses, shrub growth. However, groups of "pole cedars" gotta go! My bad, looks like its actually 762 acres per day.. https://conservation.ok.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Eastern-Redcedar-Invading-the-Landscape.pdf

Easy to establish.. lol thanks for the laugh :) I believe the state of OK alone loses something like 480 acres of prairie to cedars per day.

Will change once they setup bait piles and snipe the area. If they don't get their quota from hunters, that's the next step.

Interesting topic because numbers in MO have been steadily increasing over the last 5 years. MDC is beside themselves right now.. CWD positives magically appearing where multiple insurance claims for crop damage are happening. Quite the coincidence if you ask me..

A split bar on 15” rows makes a great stand of beans.

Soil test. My $0.02.. If you don't have a good farming mentor, try beans first year as they are much easier (and less inputs) to grow than corn.