Recent content by shaman

AMS and Nitrosurf: is this an either/or thing or do I need both?

Thanks. I had no idea about AMS. How much AMS per gallon are we talking?

I need someone to check my cypherin' here. I haven't done this much brain work since I retired-- haven't even needed to take off my boots once. I have a sprayer that takes 25 gallons of water and sprays 2.2 gallons per minute with a 140" spread out of the boom. I want to spray Gly on 1 acre...

Let me show you my #1 challenge: All told, I think the field to the right of the barn is about 1/2 acre. We call it Gobbler's Knob. My guess is that this is too steep to roto-till, and that I'll have to do some version of squirt-mow-throw to keep it from eroding. It also has some hefty...

I wanted to give you an update. I've been out shopping for ATV attachments: ATV Ready for Food Plots Here's the way I figured it: I needed the tractor at the farm. I have work that's been delayed 20 years on the place, because I didn't have a tractor. It's time to get it done before I need...

Yeah, I figured this first year I was going to try BOB just to a) get my planting technique down and b) see what grew and what worked. My guess is I'll have a few successes and a few rank failures. Looking at all the seed choices I've made, there's a lot of perennial clover in it, and I...

I'm back from the farm. My hunting buddy is getting up there, and he turned over his ATV to me so that we could use it at deer camp. I brought it down and got it running right. I bought a drag harrow, a seeder, and a 25-gal tank sprayer. BTW: I'll be covering all this on my weblog...

It depends. Lord, do I know about Cedar thickets. Turn your back on a plot of land around here, it'll have 4-foot cedars growing in no time. They grow during the winter. Within a decade, they are as tall as a house. I've got ones at just about every stage. At some point, about the time...

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm thinking. The haydude finishes 7/15, and then I'm not going to start planting until August, and only then when I can get the seed in before a rain. If that means things slide to September, I'm cool with it. Our Rifle Season starts 11/8 this year. I thought I'd...

Thanks for the quick comeback. That's a lot of good ideas.

Tomorrow, I'm getting a Kubota L2502HST delivered along with a rotary mower and rotary tiller. I've had my farm for since 2001, and up until now, I've been just a dabbler in food plots. I'm retiring there full time, and I'll now have more time to take care of things. What I'd like to do is...

Perfect! Just what I needed. Many thanks.

We have 200 acres of fallow farm in SW Bracken County, KY. My sons decided to clear a disused pasture for a campsite. It had a lot of poison ivy in it, so they sprayed gly back in the spring. The results were good-- too good. Nothing has grown back. Is there something we could throw...

It's funny you say that. We've got a stand of hickory trees next to our family campground. I've never seen evidence of the deer eating our hickory nuts either. I never said anything, because deer and hickory nuts -- who would believe me?

You guys are making me feel better. About 10 years into owning the place, I had a fellow that lived about 10 miles away confide in me that our ridge system was known for having gobs of deer, but few shooters. That was about right, too. Oh, there'd be the occasional monster. However, we had...