Recent content by M. R. Byrd

Leaks show up good on blue shop towels placed where you think there might be a leak.

I have also heard of people making a tincture from Mullein. I knew some people that sought out unsprayed bindweed to make tea. They thought it would cure anything. From what I heard bindweed tea can have laxative effects and I would believe it since she came running to our door needing the...

6" here at the Ponderosa, Dodge City

First freeze coming to southwest Kansas tonight and it could be a hard one in low lying areas. This will change to color of the area that has remained an unusual green this year due to abundant and well spaced rainfall. There was a quick shower in the wee hours this morning to bring my rainfall...

Before I went to my friend's ranch, I checked out my food plot of radishes, turnips and chicory. Water pooling from last night's rain. I have planted radishes and turnips off and on for a number of years and the whitetail have never paid much attention to them. Chicory, on the other hand, once...

The rain continues. I am up to 30" for the year, verses 17.50" average annual. My friend asked me to check his pasture again since he is out of town. Traveled to his place and dumped 1.50" from his gauge. Took another picture in a similar place that I did last month over there. That draw is...

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.