Recent content by Brian

See the "Exceptional Drought" area in Louisiana and SW Mississippi? I'm fairly confident that if you plotted the geographic center of the D4 zone it would fall on my property! Normal rainfall by now is 50.38"... but we've only had 32.98" so far. I know many of you would love to have that much...

I’ve done the same thing mixing clover seed with grits and it really helped me get an even light application with a Solo spreader.

Ouch - now I'm embarrassed griping about the lack of rain since the first of September... I was at 46" of rain for the year at that point!

After an incredibly wet summer the valve was turned off in early September and we've been in a serious late summer drought. Last week I started seeing rain predicted for the middle of this week and when I checked the weather forecast Friday and it showed a 90% chance of rain for next Wednesday...

I grow them for the greens, which work well in a mix because they don't shade out the small grains and clover like rape or turnips - the root is just a nice bonus (when I get them!) With 10# of brassicas seed I will just store them in the back of a closet. I seriously doubt the seeds will...

Normal planting window here is Oct. 1 - 15 due to army worms, but after a very wet summer we're bone dry now with no rain predicted. Given the forecast I may not be planting until early November - I was planning to include daikon radishes at 3#/acre in my mix, but with the late start I'm...

If you're broadcasting into disced and smoothed dirt then dragging should be sufficient - I've done it that way several times myself. Depth of planting isn't really an issue with wheats or oats BUT you want to make sure that you make enough passes with your drag so that the seeds are thoroughly...

I’m in SW Mississippi too, a few miles west of Centreville in Wilkinson County. Where are you located? I would not even consider planting now because it’s too dry and still a little too early - anything planted before the end of September is inviting army worms. I usually plant mid to late...

Does anyone have any idea how long until fertilizer prices fall? I'm trying to figure out whether I bite the bullet and buy fertilizer or put it off a year. I've had some significant K loss in my plots since my last soil test two years ago and trying to figure out whether I bite the bullet and...

I hate sweetgums; nothing eats them, they're not good cover - not only do they have no redeeming traits but they grow so fast that they shade out desirable plants. My place was a pine plantation that was clear cut just before I bought it 7 years ago and I have been waging war against them since...

No, the sedgehammer didn't bother the clover at all. I didn't think it bothered the nutsedge either at first - it works slowly.

I have a nutsedge problem in one of my plots and learned the hard way that gly just top kills nutsedge. I spot sprayed with a herbicide called SedgeHammer earlier this summer and took it out. SedgeHammer is sort of expensive but worth it - 2 packs in two gallons of water cleaned up a 1/2 acre...

I love okra when its breaded and deep-fried ... but I've never heard of it being used in a food plot. Is it just for structure or do deer eat it? Any suggestions on how much the planting rate for this mix should be increased for broadcasting?

Drycreek- do you know how high the spout is on your protein feeder?

I know 440 doesn't get much love from the "knife knerds" on bladeforum, but I've found 440c to be a good balance between hard enough to hold an edge but not too hard to sharpen, particularly for a hunting or skinning knife. I have a set of Kodi-Pak knives from Outdoor edge in AUS-8, another...