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First year only Disc maybe spray after disc to kill cool season grasses and see what comes up, would be surprised by all the native seeds in the soil.

Would choose based on best direction for surrounding AG that deer would travel towards in evening

Personally headed to more clover/chicory plots. Do use RR alfalfa if need to clean up weeds in an area. Have 7 food plots that range from 3/4 acre to 1/8 acre. One large plot is about 1/3 clover and 2/3 beans. One other 1/4 acre plot is beans. Other 5 plots from 1/8 to 1/3 acre...

Yep with age I too get just as much satisfaction shooting most any deer (not fawn). Mostly bow hunt now so that is the challenge that enjoy. Very few if any elite deer where hunt.

Ernst Seeds sells tree and shrub seeds

Learn to identify trees and when their seeds are ready to gather. Ash, box elder and oaks are very easy to identify in Fall, gather keep dry over winter store in paper bad, and spread in spring if can get covered with a little soil works good. In spring can gather maples and elm relatively...

Do 25 with tree tubes versus 100 without tubes. Tubed easy outgrows many times over. Plum, crab apple, maple my favorites for quick growth. Do willow cuttings for screening

Maple grows quick, hinges well, lots of seeds for wildlife, beautiful fall colors, makes good deer browse.

Tree tubes make a tremendous difference in growth. Use 1/2 PVC 5ft for stakes

No red cedar Add Box elder, great for browse Elm More species of maple

Waterhemp sucks! Have used Dicamba HD, it immediately affects waterhemp.

I use 4ft tube with 5ft .5inch PVC pipe. Once tree grows out of tube slide protector up a foot

Tubing does help with growth tremendously for me as well as control deer browse.

Tubes make a big difference. Did both with and without. Without tree tubes no growth to dead. With tree tubes good growth, by year 3 over 6ft tall

Understanding wanting to go program for income. First thing would be to prepare a 5 and 10 year plan for the entire parcel. Do carve out a parcel(s) for CRP but wildlife habitat and CRP can be different. Start planting trees/shrubs ASAP knowing will take 5 to 10 years to see good results...

Planted mine 4-6ft apart. Will sprout suckers once established.

Ernst has limited tree/shrub seeds. I would like following if were available - Green Ash, American Elm, Red Maple, Red Osier, Cranberry, Staghorn Sumac plus any other that would be good deer browse in Central MN. Difficult to find in quantities for 10 acre broadcast planting. Quantities would...