Recent content by M. R. Byrd

This thread brings back memories of my days with the power company in SE Kansas fifty years ago and controlling woody vegetation on our transmission line right-of-ways. Back then it was Tordon Beads. They really worked well in the right hands, but very dangerous in the wrong hands. One day, the...

Welcome and thanks for your service

I mark the butts of mine with date found

Just saw on the news that most snow in Baton Rouge since 1914. Stay warm and safe down there.

I can only speak from experience in my area and here in SW Kansas I like American plums. I am not sure what would work in your area in Iowa. My main focus is to manage for quail, but in doing so I also manage for pheasants and deer. Upland birds chicks need a diet of insects and pollinators in...

I have a 12' Brown Mfg Speed Mover, similar design to this 8ft. It won't handle wet soil but if the soil moisture isn't too high, I get the grade about where I want it, then raise the blade where is only skimming the high spots and leave it at that height and make circling passes until I have it...

For #4 above-In NE Kansas that can occur around Thanksgiving. Some NRCS offices will have a Stihl Backpack Mister/Sprayer they loan out for that purpose.

I don't know where you are located, but state forestry is a good source of bare root seedlings. I also think some like Missouri will sell to out-of-staters.

Bare root bur oak are available in the spring from Kansas Forestry in bundles of 25. Be sure to follow their recommendations for sweating the seedlings to get them to break bud. Bur oak is a good and recommended tree in western Kansas. The few I have are 20+ years old and producing, although not...

To the Browning users, is there a way to star an image you want to retain and delete all others?

I have been using Precip appl(free version) and it has tracked very close to my actual rain gauge reading.

KSQ2 Hope you get some rain out of this one.

Take care of that knee. I feel for you on all the problems. My dad always said, "If it's not the hogs, it's the windmill". That is sure true here at the Ponderosa.

My situation was that the locals knew my situation. I didn't live there at the time and knew that on Sundays, I wouldn't be there. I had finally had enough and demanded some action from the local warden. He agreed to hide on the farm come Sunday. I went to his office on Monday morning to see...