Recent content by yoderjac

Just beautiful!

The buckwheat is now in full bloom. It will soon start producing seed. Deer are in the field every night. About the time the buckwheat goes to seed, the sunn hemp begins to take over the field.

If you are planting clover, plant for fall with a nurse crop of winter rye. Spray to kill the existing vegetation. Broadcast your seed and cultipack it if possible. Do so with rain in the forecast. In the first spring, mow the winter rye back to 8" each time it hits about 18". This will...

We have a New Holland dealer next to the Kubota dealer. I've got friends with New Holland tractors that seem to like them. I don't have any personal experience with them.

Great point on service. In my area, Deere is problematic. With the recent proprietary software issues and folks not being able to make even simple fixes to their tractors, service is inundated. The local shop prioritizes the big acreage farmers making the little guy wait forever for service...

This is an interesting variation. I do have some fields that I established in clover. I planted no maintenance fruit trees in them and then let the field go up with weeds. When it gets enough woody stuff in it after a couple years, I mow it back and let it grow back up. Your approach...

This has been an interesting experience. My weed identification abilities are lacking. I went to the chart in the video in the first post in this thread and wrote down all of the weeds in Dr. Harper's list. Next, I looked them up on the internet and downloaded pictures. After that, I drove...

Just a few comments from a guy who has used both. There are many things an ATV can do...but... Anything that is ground engaging is hard on the light weight ATV implements. While spraying can be done with an ATV, I find it much harder to hold a constant speed compared to a geared tractor...

Sunn Hemp fixes a lot of N into the soil that your grasses would use. You would need to mow it in time for it to desiccate before your fall plant.

I have 2 tractors, a Kioti DK45 with a cab and a little Kubota B2400. I bought the B2400 at an auction with lots of hours on it for $5K. Both tractors are 4x4 with a FEL. The B2400 had stickers from a rental company, so I'm sure it was used hard and abused before I got it. The Kubota has...

Congrats! We closed on our house sale the same day!

Just showing progress:

Gave her back yesterday. She was glad to see the family!

I did a little work with her this week. I grabbed a couple training dummies and some quail scent from Bass Pro last Thursday. I started with a single dummy in the visible short grass. She was already inclined to fetch. Her owner and the kids would throw toys and sticks for her to fetch, but...

Some of the pictures were blurry so I didn't include them in the collogue. That all seem to be doing pretty well: