white cloud
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Deer love buckwheat in the summer.
Got buckwheat ?
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white cloud
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Here is one of my plots as of yesterday.
In my experience, they like it but it’s not their favorite. If they have a better food source available they will ignore the buckwheat. It’s not a great choice for deer because it has no resilience - once they nip off the main stem it is done for.
Drycreek
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They don’t attack mine like they do peas, that’s for sure, but they do eat it. I think, from my experience, is that deer in different areas eat different things, maybe depending on what’s available to them. For instance, I’ve raised PTT and the deer never touched them, whereas on a place my son hunted just 30 miles away, they devoured them. On my place they had wheat and clover, on his they had anemic wheat and poor pine trees as it was an old gravel pit with no soil.
deer patch
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I forgot that your seed prices always seemed high compared to most people’s prices. Must be a location thing.
My deer hammered my buckwheat when it started flowering but over than that they didn’t touch it much but the bees do love the stuff.
Drycreek
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My personal opinion for our high seed prices is that there is no ag in our part of the state, so anything we get is shipped from ag country to a middleman, (or two), before the end user gets it. My MRC seed came from Oregon. That’s just about as far as you can get from me and still be in the US of A.
My personal opinion for our high seed prices is that there is no ag in our part of the state, so anything we get is shipped from ag country to a middleman, (or two), before the end user gets it. My MRC seed came from Oregon. That’s just about as far as you can get from me and still be in the US of A.
But we do have fire ants , feral hogs, and an occasional sasquatch........
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Drycreek
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g squared 23
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I gave it a try in a lower lying area that commonly gets washed out. Both the buckwheat and jap millet are doing well. Kinda overpopulated though
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This is one of several plots in a small area I’m using to try and attract doves for a shoot. Total is maybe over an acre. The wheat is almost ready to manipulate.
Another area of Japanese millet. The stuff grows very quickly. A little buckwheat sprinkled in on top.
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white cloud
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Here is one of our plots.
Mennoniteman
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Time for some predator control?
jlane35
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9 were caught during last years trapping season, and a bunch more just moved in after that.
Mennoniteman
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I love a story with a happy ending.
That has got to make a huge difference for your wildlife populations.
Mennoniteman
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Nice pictures. Is that an old grain elevator in the background?I gave it a try in a lower lying area that commonly gets washed out. Both the buckwheat and jap millet are doing well. Kinda overpopulated though.
This is one of several plots in a small area I’m using to try and attract doves for a shoot. Total is maybe over an acre. The wheat is almost ready to manipulate.
Another area of Japanese millet. The stuff grows very quickly. A little buckwheat sprinkled in on top.
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jlane35
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I would like to think so but who knows. We aren’t seeing any turkey poults. I am seeing more rabbits but we are also hinge cutting for them, letting old hay fields grow in, planting spruce and shrubs, and had our property logged with the tree tops being left in tact. Whether it helps or not it’s a nice relationship to have and let a guy use our property to do something he loves. While maybe saving a deer/turkey/rabbit along the way.
Mennoniteman
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No poults? Are there a lot of coons and possums around? And fisher cats...
jlane35
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No fisher cats but yes lots of raccoons and opossums. The trapper only caught 2 last year but he doesn’t target them. I found a guy with a coonhound but we never were able to meet up.
Drycreek
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Dog proof traps for the coons. Coyote trapping, to be effective, is an ongoing affair. I trapped hard two years in a row on another place I had and I could see the results. I also never, but never, pass up a shot at one anytime I get the chance. Same with hogs. We have very few turkeys in East Texas and never will have because of the small varmints and hogs. TPWD has stocked Eastern turkeys here about three times now in three different ways, but they aren’t getting a foothold yet. Maybe someday.....
So far our buckwheat experience has been pretty sad. It was my understanding that it was like rye, would grow almost anywhere. I killed off the weeds in our small plots and broadcast buckwheat. Then of course Mother Nature decided to hold back on all rain so went in a couple weeks later and just a plant here and there. Rebroadcast buckwheat just hours before rain, then it rained on and off a few days. Checked on it this past weekend which was about a week after planting the second time and there are a few more plants than last time but certainly not a flourish of buckwheat! Will be planting for fall crops here in a few weeks so hopefully the buckwheat gets a bit of a head start.
