Recent content by Mennoniteman

No venison here, but beyond that shortcoming the Royal burger at Red Robin is hard to beat. Nothing quite like a peach milkshake and a burger with a runny egg on top.

What part of PA is your camp? Weaber Lumber in Lebanon PA pays premium $ for poplar logs.

Bifenthrin and permethrin are both synthetic pyrethroid insecticides, but bifentrin has a longer residual due to its higher stability in the environment. Bifenthrin requires less frequent applications for continuous pest control compared to permethrin. Both are effective against most insects...

It's tough to compete with neighboring soybeans...

Yes, poplar is good straight grained wood, but lightweight and soft, and deteriorates rapidly if laying on the ground in the woods.

You're going to need an Amish crew to help you get all those poplar beams up!

I'm with you on loving peace and quiet, but I'm not going to fight change, rather, I'm going to ride those trails and check it out for myself. I don't expect them to stay open permanently, there's going to be too much damage, and too much opposition, so i want to take a look before they close...

ATV's are definitely a hot button topic in PA. Central Pennsylvania coal country and surrounding areas have been an economically depressed area without many jobs for as long as I can remember, with the locals looking forward to the yearly deer season and influx of money for several weeks, but...

But in food plots, size doesn't matter, it's all about quality. And you have way better quality food up in that saddle than I do in my cornfield. My problem is that I grew up on a farm and I have growing corn in my blood. You can take a boy out of the Amish but you can't take the Amish out of...

The oldtimer farmers saying about corn is that you want it to be "knee high by 4th of July". With all the rain we've had it might be shoulder high by then. It's up to my hips on June 12.

The 5400 is the more capable tractor if it fits in our budget. Get gear drive if you are doing row crop work in crop fields, get Hydro if you are doing a lot of loader work. Either transmission works well for mowing.

I'm a cab person, in the winter when it's too cold to be out I'm plowing snow, and in the summer when it's too hot to be out I'm mowing. If you can afford a cab get one, you will never regret it. Unless you are the outdoorsy type that likes being out in the wind, close to the soil that's being...

I'm not familiar with Johnson grass, 7' tall will probably be a problem, plus the spreading root systems. I'd say if leaving the field fallow is not a choice you will need to keep the Johnson grass from going into seed heads, clethodim would kill the johnson grass, mowing would also keep it in...

I'd treat the "conglomeration of forbs, Johnson grass and some other grasses" as if it were a small grain growing for a fall planting, let it grow until 2 weeks before planting time then spray it dead. The more taller leafy growth a plant puts on, the bigger and deeper the root system grows for...

Nice buck coming along there. We've been seeing fawns but not out in the fields yet. Be careful if you mow this time of the spring, the danger of mowing over a fawn is pretty big. I did that once and it's a sickening feeling.