Double A Farm NE Ohio

Weasel said:
A few more from a few weeks ago. Soil tests done. Found a few swamp white oaks and released them. I never get tired of the sunsets at the farm.

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Welcome back. Always enjoyed following your thread. My farm is in northwest pa so it’s nice to see similar projects on similar ground. I live on my farm so I don’t get to play around with cabin builds. So much fun to watch though.

Keep up the good work!
 
Chainsaw said:
Love your radish/turnip patch and a great picture of it as well! How much fertilizer and what were the planting dates? How big did the turnip part of the plant grow?
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I will have to check my notes and let you know. The radishes were about 10 inches long and the turnips were the size of baseballs.
 
Just getting caught up, here’s what I got done last week. Started setting corner posts, finally getting around to the fence project. Fruit trees were pruned, clover and rye really greening up and the county finally cut the road ditch properly and deep enough so I won’t have standing water in the front corner of my field.

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Today was miscanthus giganteus planting day. I tilled a single pass along the road, behind the 3 rows of Norway spruce, and planted the rhizomes 3-4 inches deep and 2 feet apart. Maple River Farms says they should grow 3-4 feet this year, 6-8 next year and 11+ feet each year after that.

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Looking good weasel! Giganthus creates the best screens of anything we have tried so far. Ours grew just as you have been told. We sprayed before planting and did nothing after that; Miscanthus is an easy keeper here.
 
Here’s a look at what Erich Long at Drumming Log Wildlife Management came up with for transforming my former 12 acre ag field into wildlife habitat

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Mowed the fields according to the plan

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I’m fortunate to have a friend in the nursery/ag business and I picked his brain and resources to get the fertilizer amounts perfect and got to go through his supplier. Hurt to till all that money into the dirt but I’m going all in this year

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He even hooked me up with some RR alfalfa. Got the fertilizer tilled in and alfalfa seeded. This should be a sweet draw along that wood line until the frost. Corn going to the right to screen in the alfalfa. Fert all tilled in there too, will be seeding that soon

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My buddy told me it’s a good idea to range my plots off and stake them out before tilling. You do all the work calculating the amount of fert for each size plot, why not be sure your plot size is accurate too before flinging all that expensive stuff around

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Do you plan on burning your switchgrass? Switchgrass and Pines seems like an odd combo unless you don't plan on burning. Should give you plenty of cover, got to love the clean slate!
 
E_308 said:
Do you plan on burning your switchgrass? Switchgrass and Pines seems like an odd combo unless you don't plan on burning. Should give you plenty of cover, got to love the clean slate!
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I’ve never done any burning and don’t plan to. All of my maintenance to date has been accomplished through mowing.
 
Clearance fruit trees and plastic water trough for the new mast tree/water hole area. Checked after a rain, looks to be working fine.

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Corn, beans and alfalfa, all RR, done in the front field. Planted a plot of sunflowers and screened everything with hybrid sorghum and Egyptian wheat.

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Food plot express to the back field. Another round of corn, beans, alfalfa and same screening of sorghum & Egyptian wheat planted in separate rows like the front field. It was a challenge getting this all in between my schedule and weather but it’s done thankfully.

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gut_pile said:
Looks like you have a solid plan in place. Good luck this fall!
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Thanks gut. It’s bitter sweet with that old ag field. The rent helped with the taxes and projects but that was a large chunk of my property that was useless for deer. Should really improve the activity in the next few years.
 
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