Recent content by M. R. Byrd

I use Precip, but find it off sometimes. I will try Rain Drop. Thanks

Interesting

1.25" early this morning here at the Ponderosa. 25.10" YTD. 17.50" normal annual rainfall

KSQ2- you have any dove there? This is one span of four that look just like this.

twenty years ago I planted short maturity corn on some dryland bottom ground. It made 88 bu. The following spring there was good moisture so I decided to continuous crop that ground and planted the same hybrid and it made 105 bu/A. That was the last dryland corn I planted, not because I wasn't...

Light rain at the Ponderosa now. Any of you that have been in SW Kansas in August know that green is a color of the irrigated corn fields or the John Deere machinery in the fields. Normal pasture color would be khaki or the color of a manila folder. Not this year. We have been blessed with...

My father always said, "If it's not the windmill, it's the hogs". Story of my days frequently and it is the current state of affairs here at the Ponderosa. I hope better days are ahead for you.

Thought I would update this post. There have been continued rains and this country is an unusual shade for August. My YTD total today is 22.10" after the last 2.35" downpour on August 11th. My CRP in places is approaching eight foot tall with most thigh high. I got my food plots planted a month...

I manage for birds(pheasant, quail, pheasant, lesser prairie chicken, Rio turkey) and deer. I am pleased when I see ragweed.

Not a usual color for July in SW Kansas. I have been blessed with unusual spring rains. I have not yet gotten my cameras set up to census the bucks, but hope to get some free time soon and see what we have.

I was just in an home improvement store picking up some lumber and strolled over to their tiny and I mean tiny deer items and lo and behold there was Rice Bran, discounted at $3.50 a bag. Purchased the two they had and will give it a try.

Wheat streak mosaic hit hard in much of SW Kansas. I had one dryland field that was totaled out. Two dryland fields that had it but it was cutable, although very poor, 50# test weight and big dock at the elevator. The irrigated field made 70 bu. with 60# test weight.

Wow, what great success. I was helping my son with a hundred acres of timber in NE Kansas that had a lot of Callery pear. I flagged a few that I wanted to try grafting and killed the rest. Situation changed and he sold the land before I got to try grafting. Back home in SW Kansas( annual...

Don't have an answer to that. I know in the Kansas City area that there are companies that provide a goat herd to greatly reduce invasives, such as bush honeysuckle. Also, they have been used in situations where the terrain is difficult to impossible for humans to access for any kind of...

Goats?