Recent content by Fetz

About 20 days in, the plot is looking quite patchy, but it looks like the herbicide did its job. For my very first food plot ever I'll take it as a small victory. I guess next time I should just up the seeding rate?

Update: I broadcasted and mowed on Saturday. We've gotten 3 inches of rain since then. The duff seemed a bit thick but hopefully the rain packed it down and got those seeds nice and moist. .5ac 50lb no-name wheat 5lb pasture booster clover (which was actually only 50% PLS) and 1lb no-name...

My local Rural King has this clover mix. Says it's 90% medium red clover and 10% white dutch clover. Rain chances looking real good on Sunday and Monday now so I'm sticking to planting Saturday afternoon.

I'm in zone 6A. Some quick googling says I might be pushing the limits for crimson clover.

I suspect it was mostly due to excessive overlap, and also I need to tinker with the supply hose in the sprayer because it was losing prime once the tank got to ~4 gal. Not ideal when I only wanted to spray 10 gal in the first place. I will look around for some annual clover the next couple...

Well the best part about having low expectations is they are easily exceeded. I'll be happy if I can just draw some deer in during the gun season. I sprayed this evening with some minor hiccups. I tried to calibrate my sprayer in accordance with this youtube video: and came out with...

I'm in central IL. Farmers almanac says first frost will be in about 30 days. I have a .5ac section of pasture that I'd like to turn into a food plot. I have never done a food plot before but I have a tractor, sprayer, and flail mower and my local seed supplier has winter wheat for $22/50lb...

Thought about explaining that but I wasn't sure anyone would recall. The survey came back a couple acres short but the seller didn't want to move enough on the price so we chose to walk away. I think it's really worked out for the best in the end.

My wife and I are closing on our dream homestead in about a month. It's 16 acres in central Illinois. The property is currently used for rotational grazing and haying. We'd like to establish some small livestock operations (starting with chickens and bees, and maybe add some goats or sheep in a...

Don't have any problems with Stihl. I've used Stihl rescue saws and chainsaws with no complaints, but when I'm not footing the bill for it of course I love a $700 chainsaw. When I started researching the Echo CS590 really seems like a legit contender that outperforms Stihls in the $400 range...

Great advice, I definitely planned to heavily mark my property line with purple paint where it borders the public. I have talked with my neighbor to the south, a very nice elderly woman. She doesn't have any dogs, just a bunch of cats (arguably worse than dogs in my opinion). I'm definitely less...

Hi everyone, If there's a better thread for this please move it. My wife and I just took the plunge and bought 20.5 acres in Central IL. We should be closing in a couple of weeks. I didn't grow up with land, and I have only been hunting for a few years so I would say I am relatively...