Recent content by William Allis

YoderJack, you said " I find that with the mixes I use, it is faster for me to surface broadcast first, and then mow and spray. It has the same effect as crimping in that the cereal in that it forms a mulch layer holding in moisture for germination." Are you spraying after you throw and mow...

Now that's accounting with "fuzzy" math! I like it!

BLACK FRIDAY SALES!!! I have wanted a leaf blower to blow grass off my mowers, and I have to borrow my sons reciprocating saw. HD had a leaf blower with a free reciprocating saw. I ordered some SS meat cutting blades and an Extreme Blower Seeder. Even if it all doesn't work, I got a lot of...

We will just keep it mowed in strips hoping there is a little residual seed that will germinate. We have found that the does/fawns will bed in the edges of the strips. We have found that, in our soil, continuous mowing helps the clover recover and the brush will die out. The edge we left in...

Still looking for a way to get uniform coverage of turnips, turnip greens, radish and clover. I can no longer walk with a belly grinder and can't justify a no till or a Tar River type drill. I have been mixing with winter rye and pelleted lime in my 3 point cyclone spreader or my son uses the...

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NYS has added crossbows to the bow hunting season this year. The season opens early, so I can forget hanging a deer outside. I plan to use an ice chest and dry age the good cuts. Loins and boned hind quarters. What is you experience, method, length of time and etc? I plan to put the...

This whole FOOD PLOT/ HUNTING thing is just a hobby for our family. Wife and I live on the old family farm and our youngest son and his wife are our neighbors. Granddaughter and her husband are outdoorsmen and bought 10 acers adjoining. I paid for my college education raising replacement...

RGrizzzz your link is the Penn State info. Pelletized lime at $350 a ton is too expensive for deer! We have deduced that for every deer we harvest we have $1000+ invested. Taxes just came and we bought a new tractor this year! No end to the expenses! And folks whine because we post.

So the salesman says 3-4 gallon, $100, of his product is the same as a ton of ag lime, maybe $50 spread or $350 for a ton of pelletized lime at $7 for 40 lbs. But according to Penn State there is only 2-3 lbs of lime in a gallon of liquid lime. $100 for 8-10 lbs of lime is not cheap...

Buckly, where are you buying your seed and etc. We got ours from Pierce Milling. I would like to find some field run buckwheat, but not at $100 a bushel.

Since planting on Saturday we have gotten a little over 1/2inch of nice rain and it looks like more in the next day or two. Temperature has gone down too. It is only 50 degrees this morning. That meadow has been fallow for 20 years. In the spring when wet the 3 inch common buckthorn will...

May be a week or 2 late but we are getting rain today. I am hoping for a 1/2 inch. The attached picture shows a 1/2 acre plot in a recovered meadow. In the background you can see what the whole 5 acre meadow looked like 4 years ago. Overgrown with common buckthorn, honeysuckle, autumn olive...

We can watch 3 plots and a 1/2 acre of mono-culture rag weed from our deck. We normally have 2-7 deer grazing in the ragweed and just walking through the clover. Proves the importance of weed in your plots. We are dry, <1 1/2" of rain in July. I sprayed 4 acres of plots yesterday, but we...

I understand the Ragweed seed being used by birds, we actually planted ragweed in LA (lower Alabama) for quail feed. I didn't realize deer grazed on it as a 2 to 4 inch forb. As I recall, the seeds are high in protein, are the forbs too? Guess I won't Gly. that acre log landing , just throw...