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January green up?

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6x6

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Is it possible the brassicas, radishes and especially clover is growing in this 48-65 degree weather with lows in the upper 20s? It sure looks like the clover buds the deer paw the dirt for, are opening and growing. The deer have little desire for the standing corn, but are flocking to the clover, brassicas and rye, like they do in april, except obviously not brassicas in april. Strange year, hit 67 degrees today, but deer were feeding heavy on the clover, and they had standing corn, radishes and turnips right next to it. It sure looks alot greener than last week too.
 
It definitely looks greener out to me. My yard seems to greened up a bit. I also saw two gobblers strutting this morning off 380.
 
Heck, I figured I'd start planting my corn tomorrow! :)
I've seen that a lot, I have greener clover on my place and sometimes I've seen green clover after it's been buried in snow. I've had multiple years when I sit on standing beans when there's NO SNOW and they walk right past and hit green stuff or combined stuff. I've always felt that standing corn/beans are only the ticket when there's a good amount of snow on ground and/or super cold or the occasion when there's no green stuff or combined fields. as expected, this year's corn & beans have stunk that I left up. I have some bean areas I planted that were not from free seed- I am going to combine those areas because I am going to have so much left over. Always good to have variety of food sources for reasons like this weather, failures, etc. Hope you can still see some good bucks on your place, good luck!
 
Its crazy this year! I pulled a lot of the cameras off foodplots and put them on trails. Our clover is also getting a tint of green to it. Last week muzzeloading in Southern Iowa my buddy came up to me and said he seen a Robin?? I'll have to check it out on Monday.
Were also going to combine our corn in March/April if a lot is left.
 
It's pretty normal to see the deer dig down for the clover in the dirt after it freezes down, but all the deer the last few nights have been flocking to it, nibbleing on corn and brassicas, but mostly focusing on the clover. When I looked at it today, the leaf buds appear to be opening and raising up, instead of flat and dormant. Its good to have a pattern at least for the last few days. I would not worry too much about leftover feed yet, there is still alot of time for bad weather. I left 11 acres of standing corn, but with all the turkeys and refugee deer from gun season, I am sure it will all be gone by the end of march, just not that big of a draw right now.
 
That 10 degree nite with 50 mile per hr winds put an end to any green I had left,. More important is where is the moisture? With all this warm air there should be big winter storms with rain and snow. Things can change of coarse but the closer spring gets and this pattern holds, could be Iowa drought in the headlines next summer....
 
loneranger said:
That 10 degree nite with 50 mile per hr winds put an end to any green I had left,. More important is where is the moisture? With all this warm air there should be big winter storms with rain and snow. Things can change of coarse but the closer spring gets and this pattern holds, could be Iowa drought in the headlines next summer....
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January and Febuary are the driest months of the year. I can see another blizzard coming in the first of March. Juuusssttt in time for calving season. :rolleyes:
 
We planted some cereal rye in the fall. It didn't grow much because of the dry fall but it is still green. Last night they were hitting it hard. The night before they were hitting the clover next to the rye.
 
My maple trees in my front yard are starting to bud out. This weather is crazy, but I'm not complaining! I'm taking this afternoon off to play golf.
 
I planted some rye in sept that never got rained on until mid nov it was a bare field until about half way through december. Now it is all sprouted and the whole field has a little green tint to it.
 
The current dry pattern is beacause of a split in the jets streams. They have merged a few times since Sept and brought some good rains to SE Iowa, thank goodness, but by far the moist jet and the polar jet get together east of Iowa. This split flow pattern is hard to break, and could last into spring and summer,,time will tell?
 
Went out to hang a stand for my wife today and the field I have been hunting had a strong green look to it.... This is just weird...

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