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The spraying is/was commonly done with the herbicide Rodeo which is aquatic safe version of a broad spectrum herbicide.

The DNR in Illinois has been pushing this as an approved practice for over a decade. Here is one study that came up in a Google search...

I was quoted ~$1,000 for 30 acres this upcoming fall. Very cost effective if you get the results that @Rut Nut had.

Here is how I get my clover and alfalfa plots established in spring. Broadcast oats at 50#/acre rate. Disk or till oats into soil. Cultipack. Broadcast clover/alfalfa. You can cultipack again if rain isn't imminent (within 24 hours) but I prefer to let rain push the seed into the cultipacked...

For those who have drone sprayed BH, what specific time frame would I be looking at. SW WI would be the location, so basically same zone as NE Iowa, right across the river. I'm aware it would be in the fall, and from personal observations, I'd guess the first week of November, but I don't want...

I've been working for the past few years on some buckthorn control in one of my woodlots. It is gratifying work and I know it needs to be done, it is very labor intensive and costly. In the short term the deer have vacated this portion of the property. Some of that is probably from my intrusion...

Image of the field to give an idea how much residue is there.

Maybe I used the wrong term, it was harvested with a combine, there is plenty of residue. Total ground coverage. ETA - I did use the wrong term, this field was "cut" not "chopped".

It's going into a 10 year CRP rotation, I don’t think much of that black residue will be around the next time this dirt gets row cropped.

Getting started on a CRP planting this spring and unfortunately the crop it's following is chopped corn with lots of residue on the ground. Would burning that residue off he worthwhile or should I just drill right through it? I'm afraid the first year growth may be inhibited by so much ground cover.

One thing I have heard of people doing is digging out around the tree because often there is valuable wood under ground in what would otherwise be the stump. With the size of that tree and if you were to cut it down, you may as well try to get something extra in the ground.

That looks great! How well do the beans stand back up after drilling through them? It seems like my drill would be ripping beans and stalks out of the ground as well as my tractor breaking the stalks?

Is your only access off the road in the SW corner? If it is and you're going to hunt around that plot, I would either plant a heavy screen for you to get access or you can try to use standing corn to screen but that's not ideal.

Looks great, do you mind sharing how you terminate the crimson and plant the brassicas? Do you innoculate the crimson before planting?

Has anyone ever tried Stinger on brassicas? I've got some Canada thistle rosettes in amongst my brassicas I've thought about spot spraying.

Lots of them again this year but only appears to be 1/4 of what we had last year. I have quite a few plots surrounded by switchgrass and the first 20' in from all sides of the switchgrass was demolished by grasshoppers. From beans to brassicas, didn't matter.

The glory days of WI deer hunting were when the Earn-A-Buck regulations were in place, you had to shoot a doe to get your buck tag.

The deer he killed in 2022 on his farm was a lot bigger than 140's I'm pretty sure? 160s maybe

The areas I notice deer bedding in the RC switch are the same as my CIR switch. Edges and diversity. Ultimately for me, there are very few beds, if any, in a straight switchgrass monoculture.

I thought sunburst was supposed to be a shorter, upland variety 3-5'?