Recent content by yoderjac

We have had some good growing weather. They are looking good!

I'm using a 12 ah version of this battery: LiFePO4 Battery

In my opinion, you should look into no-till and min-till techniques. Early in my journey, I used a 2-bottomm plow and tiller. Food plots were pretty but required high inputs. I ruined the tilth and microbiome of my soil. It has taken me many year to rebuild the organic matter and return my...

In that case I would ignore planting for summer and focus on planting a crop that peaks during the season you plan to hunt it. Annuals typical are more attractive than perennials when they are young. I would let it head out in the summer and replant for fall. I don't know what your location...

What is your objective for the plot.

Most of my camera network is very old technology wireless BuckeyeCam Orion series. When BuckeyeCam came out with the X80 series, I got one of them and a PC base for it to test it out figuring that my aging Orion network would begin to fail in time and I would need to upgrade. The two systems...

As of today, all but one of them is out of the tube. The only reason that one is still in the tube is that that tube is taller than the others. They all seem to be doing well so far.

Yes, It is a high protein food source for deer. They love the young plants. This plot is right next to our barn and our retirement house which is under construction. There is no daytime use but we have deer in this plot every night. Like most plants, as sunn hemp gets older and larger it...

I normally plant my summer plot in late May to mid-June, but we had several days of good rain in the forecast, so I decided to plant a little early this year. It was May 5th when I planted. For background, last fall, I planted Winter Rye, Crimson Clover, and Purple Top Turnips in this field...

It looks really good! We do several things with turkey legs. First, if we are roasting a wild turkey, we remove the legs and put them inside the body cavity and the entire turkey in a cooking bag to hold in moisture. This helps keep the legs from drying out and they cook more evenly...

I agree. I just wanted to let newbie's know there are alternatives to the selective herbicide route for clover management.

Verry nice! Looks great!

I have not seen that here. Keep in mind we manage intensely for deer. I was skeptical myself when I started the transition, so I had both intensely managed perennial clover plots and perennial clover plots managed as I described above at the same time on our place. I had wireless blackflash...

I used to deal with all that and found it simply wasn't worth it. What was happening is that, over time, I was removing many of the weeds that were highly beneficial to and preferred by deer, and advantaging the noxious weeds that were more tolerant to the herbicides. I've now become very weed...

Back when I was using fertilizer (a long time ago now), I used to get both the fertilizer and lime buggy from the local coop. Since we went to min-till/no-till, we have used no commercial fertilizer. I don't miss it one bit! My food plots are as or more effective than ever, and I don't miss...