Thanks for all the responses and direction! I would like to keep as many of the trees as possible also, but I think there is some areas I can burn off with out much harm. As thick as the grass mat is I think it would be best to burn what I can, and then mow and spray everything else.
The soil...
I have 3 patches, one 7 acre patch and two 5 acre patches.
On the map the orange areas are where I would like to improve native and make areas thicker. Areas 1 and 2 are the biggest priority, area 1 is about 5 acres and area 2 about 7 acres. If I can obtain the NWSG seed through my NRCS office...
Thanks for the input guys!
I have worked with NRCS quite a bit on the property through the WHIP program. I did a 10 acres native grass conversion from cool seasons, but I was able to plant beans and use a native grass drill, ended up with a great stand. I can get some native grass through my...
I have a couple semi open spots on my farm, a few larger cedar trees, but mainly just fescue. The farm used to be pastured and fescue is pretty thick everywhere, and the fescue has formed that wonderful thick low growth mat that has no wildlife value and suppresses most other growth.
These...
I have some friends that run greyhounds on coyotes. They run the same sections weekend after weekend, year after year. Pretty much kill the same number of coyotes year in year out. There is about 7-8 trucks that hunt, they hunt from Halloween to Easter and normal year kill over 1000 coyotes...
Well that is a little comforting!
I don't have any oaks on my property, well 400 but they are only 2 years old!! I don't know why but the creek that runs through my property and its drainage basin is all walnut, ash, hackberry dominated, no oaks at all. A different drainage basin to the West 1...
Well here is my experience with buck dispersal:
In 2015, I had a nice buck show up that was all over my farm, he was a nice little 3 year old eight point. He pretty much centered himself on my farm and called it home. I enjoyed seeing him from the stand but clearly was never considered as a...
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