That is some beautiful looking buckwheat Stevieray!
I think the minimum HP for my drill was listed as 45 HP. I have no problem planting with it with my 68 HP JD 5400. You may have to swap up for a few more horses.
Congrats on a great looking crop.
RobbieH - Re: Family Tradition Treestands ... Just learned that Jack's wife has been in the hospital having surgery and he has been out of the office. I'm sure he will get back to you soon.
That really surprises me RobbieH as I have always given them very high ratings on customer service. I have always called the owner, Jack Turner, 517-543-3926. I don't believe I have ever emailed him. He has always returned my calls promptly.
I do not have a Family Traditions dealer anywhere...
You don't really sound like a novice food plotter as you obviously know how to plant. Jason Broom makes a good point. Do you really need more food with all of the ag around the 8 acre "waste" ground? Deer need food, water and cover. Try to determine what is least available on your ground and...
I used to have a model B. I will check and see if I still have the settings page - I know I had one laminated.
Are you looking for the setting for soy beans then? Are your seed tubes on 6" centers? Do you want your beans on 6" rows or maybe 12"?
I have a high deer density on my property and...
Saw an older post here regarding protection of food plots which looked like some insight on E-Fence could help out with. Rather than bury it in an old thread I thought I would provide a link to a similar thread on the Michigan Sportsman forum:
Electric fence
Looks like the clethodim is doing its job David! Of course the cleth will have killed your oats too since they are also a "grass". You should have a good stand of clover by the looks of it (although I've never grown Crimson, if that's what that it?)
If the rye isn't really thick you can easily drill (or broadcast) brassicas in rye thatch:
Brassicas come up where they are broadcast into standing corn as well:
Probably not many places brassicas won't come up as long as they can get seed to soil contact.
That is one option Jason ... and pushing the fawns and turkey poults out ahead of the mower is a great strategy for mowing early. Here is another option Kwood.
You are not going to be turkey or deer hunting during the summer anyway so unless the rye is so thick that it is stunting your clover...
X3 - Leave it grow into fawning/turkey cover. The clover will still grow just fine and the wildlife will still have it available for forage, but your tall rye may save a fawn from a coyote.