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40 acres of some expired crp ground and rough timber brought $7,700 an acre at public auction today in west-central Illinois.

There are some of us that do not look at land ownership as an investment. It is a place to recreate and enjoy - to leave to children so they can recreate or sell. ROI has never factored in to my decisions and in fact, I have always done everything possible to not make money off of land. I...

I sometimes wonder about the same question Obsessed asked. And, if all the new seedlings popped up from roots or grafted roots associated with cutting and not applying herbicide, shouldn't you be able to cut one or a few saplings, apply herbicide and kill the other 1000 that sprouted off the...

Thanks all.

Just take some pressure off the trees. I am not trying to kill the whole field - just certain pockets/areas. The trees are smaller than the switch so I won't be locating individual trees and spraying around them. I will just be spraying switch and don't want to harm small trees in the...

Anybody ever kill mature switchgrass with cleth? I've got trees and shrubs in switch and the switch is getting way too thick for my liking. I don't want to kill the woody stuff - just the switch. Any experience here?

My problem with all of this is that I am not that kind of guy who has $570,000 to buy 80 acres of non-income producing rec land. I'm also not that guy who would borrow that kind of money for rec ground. In fact, I don't have a single friend that is that kind of guy. We all run in different...

This 80 acre hunting tract brought $7,000 an acre today at auction in west-central Illinois. If this represents some kind of a leveling off or slow down then I guess I own all the land I'll ever own at this point. :)

I also planted some NRO DNR seedlings back in the spring of 2010 as part of a larger diversity planting. I have a couple red oaks from then that are maybe 5" across and 15' tall. They have not produced any acorns yet. They do have some competition nearby and never got babied like the one I...

I planted a 2 1/2" ish red oak in my yard in 2012. It produced acorns for the first time in 2021. There weren't many - maybe 10 to 15. I direct seeded them all around my yard and most of them germinated. It produced again this year - a significant drought year - and many of the nuts were...

Congrats on the new place! I am jealous.

Back in about 1988 or 89 I had a friend who was an apprentice electrician. We were the same age - 19 or 20. He lost most of his fingers after getting caught in some real hot electricity but had a somewhat functioning pinky left. He wanted to bowhunt that year but was still recovering from...

Thanks for the responses all. And sorry for the double post. The district forester is going to walk it with me in early September. It looks like I'll be killing lots of good oaks to try and contain this. Of ocurse I'll still have oak wilt in my woods and so will my neighbor(s) so it's...

A few years back I started noticing dying oak trees on one ridge. 5 or 6 shingle and black oaks had died in a group. I watched the next couple years and saw that it was spreading to other close oaks in all directions. Two years ago I had a private forester come out to renew my forest management...

A few years back I started noticing dying oak trees on one ridge. 5 or 6 shingle and black oaks had died in a group. I watched the next couple years and saw that it was spreading g to other close oaks in all directions. Two years ago I had a private forester come out to renew my forest...

I am in the same boat. Severe drought here all year. I have one field prepped for brassicas but am just going to wait this out until the last minute if I have to for seeding. I've decided to roll the dice as late as possible here.

A backpack sprayer with gly or crossbow/crossroad and foliar spraying small bush honeysuckle is what I do and I have no issues killing the small ones this way. The problem is that I never see improvement. I've long since removed all the large ones. I kill every small one I can find every year...

I have unsuccessfully tried remedy and diesel on larger honey locust. It works very well on smaller ones, but has not worked for me on large trees. I double girdle and lay chemical in the bottom cut and get great results with large ones. Girdling does suck on multi-stem trees with large thorns...

40 acres in west central Illinois brought $8200 an acre today. There seems to be no slow down in site. That place would have been $3700 tops 3 or so years ago.

Illinois' 2022 crossbow harvest was 53 43% of the archery harvest.