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We did the same thing, planting brassica into a strip we put atrazine on in the spring and they came in great as well, good info!

Looks like the willows work for monster turkeys also :) I love the bucks are still hitting the willow branches, that is really interesting. I find some fresh scrapes in spring and I think its usually around the time the amount of daylight is equal to the amount of daylight during peak scraping...

Can you talk about how you use these to monitor your bucks and how you use that info to help your hunting? For example where do you place them/how often you check/when you check etc/when do you move in for the kill?

Agreed, we had great success doing this on our farm this year and a buddy of mine had his getting mauled as well. I'm starting a small willow nursery in a wet area to give me a yearly supply of rubbing trees.

Got some hits on ours, heres the link to some video http://youtu.be/yIPa862RH28

On my drier soils my sg has done well by frost seeding and using simazine, this would be hilltop and south facing hillsides. On the lower elevations and N facing hillside, I have had poor results. I think all the rain may have washed out the chemical and there are now a variety of weeds coming...

Is that one row planted 4 feet apart? Or multiple?

I had an idea but no clue if it could actually work so I'm posting it up to see what you guys think. Since RR sugarbeets are not readily available, and I don't want to fool too much with trying to grow regular beets in spring, could they be planted in late summer/fall like a brassica. The plan...

Well the deer only hit my rr sugarbeets a little bit, so I'm thinking since they are a biennial I may just let them go another year? Anyone see a problem with that?

The stuff I tried in full sun only got about 4 to 5 foot tall the second year, the stuff on the edge of a plot in the woods got 9 to 10 feet tall. Short Tall

Here is how mine turned out in Wisconsin, even with the drought they came out pretty good.

Well this did come up, the stuff I thought was junk blew up and now I have some switch that is 4 to 5 feet tall in spots! Overall it was a success, got a lot more planned for this spring.

We sprayed a combo of roundup and princep in the last week of april, not sure of the exact date but it was before may 1 for sure. This is western wisconsin and at the time we sprayed, only a few weeds were starting to come up in the field (as it has been a cornfield prior) I frost seeded the...

Another Mike from WI here :) Here are my RR sugarbeet pics, I can't compete with the other guy though.

Well I don't have anything to show for my SG plant as far as I can tell, now what? I am thinking of waiting until it freezes a few times and the SG is done growing (oct-nov), spraying with round up, and either drilling some seed in next spring or rebroadcasting more seed over the top late...