Keystone Krops

[MarkDarvin]

I have never used AMS all I know is what I have read on our friend Google after you mentioned it. Are you talking liquid or powder? where can it be bought?
This plot has been quite the expirence so far. It hadn't been croped for 50 years. I nuked it with gly cut it 2 weeks later disced it up and sowed clover and cultipacted, it started to green up nice then the clover got overtaken with this darn weed (I guess 50 years of seed bank would do that) I had never seen this weed before it is called Spreading Dog Bane (pictured) in 3 weeks it was getting ready flower, it aparantly is toxic to cattle if they eat very much and the deer were certainly munching on it so it was nuked and replanted in clover and cultipacked 2 weeks later. By Oct. it was a very nice clover patch minus the Dog Bane. So now it is the grass to deal with, one way or another the problems will be solved (The Irish can be very stuborn sometimes)

Your booming crop of dog bane is interesting. I tried to find that in my weed book and could not. Did I read that correctly, that your deer very much enjoyed eating it?

The fact that it was your response weed to glyphosate application is interesting. Most others get thistles, pigweeds, and other chem-resistant supers. Do you have a comprehensive soil test from those plots? Typically, weeds are the soil test, but yours isn't in my book, and it's the first I've ever heard of it.

 

[Mountain Man]

Your booming crop of dog bane is interesting. I tried to find that in my weed book and could not. Did I read that correctly, that your deer very much enjoyed eating it?

The fact that it was your response weed to glyphosate application is interesting. Most others get thistles, pigweeds, and other chem-resistant supers. Do you have a comprehensive soil test from those plots? Typically, weeds are the soil test, but yours isn't in my book, and it's the first I've ever heard of it.

Your booming crop of dog bane is interesting. I tried to find that in my weed book and could not. Did I read that correctly, that your deer very much enjoyed eating it?

The fact that it was your response weed to glyphosate application is interesting. Most others get thistles, pigweeds, and other chem-resistant supers. Do you have a comprehensive soil test from those plots? Typically, weeds are the soil test, but yours isn't in my book, and it's the first I've ever heard of it.

Yes the deer seemed to enjoy munching on it (picture 1) it was getting ready to flower so I quickly nuked it (picture2) then TM clover again.
Check goggle it seems this weed can be found in most 50 states in USA. My great crop came from the seed bank in the soil, I;m thinking dog bane seeds are like mustard seeds which will sit in the soil for years until the soil is disturbfd then up they come, the surrounding area is loaded with the stuff mixed in with other grasses and vegetation. Check out goggle the stuff is toxic to livestock.

 

[MarkDarvin]

Yeah, any place else, that is milkweed, and it's a very important flower for monarchs. I have it on my place, albeit a different variety, same family. It's not aggressive for me, and it's just prevalent enough to be a reliable host for those butterflies.

 

[Mountain Man]

Yeah, any place else, that is milkweed, and it's a very important flower for monarchs. I have it on my place, albeit a different variety, same family. It's not aggressive for me, and it's just prevalent enough to be a reliable host for those butterflies.

No Mark this not milkweed we have lots of milk weed in and around that plot, when I am doing maintenance in the area my wife is looking for monarch larva last year she hatched and released 57 beautifull monarchs

 

[Mennoniteman]

Usually the ATV wins, but then sometimes the mudhole wins. The ATV plastic laying beside the mudhole keeps the score

 

[Mennoniteman]

I had a half a dozen poplar trees that I had to take down in my woods and rather than let lay I'm turning them into cash, a local mill makes live edge countertops out of them.

 

[Native Hunter]

Those are nice looking logs. I have a 27 inch DBH walnut in my yard that needs to come out. It's 15 feet up to the first limbs. I wonder if I will have a hard time getting a logger for one tree, even though it should be a valuable tree.

 

[MarkDarvin]

I had a half a dozen poplar trees that I had to take down in my woods and rather than let lay I'm turning them into cash, a local mill makes live edge countertops out of them.

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It’s good you can get some value out of them. In my place they get cut up and left in a pile to rot down for mulch to use in later years, or I use them for fill when I’ve got a hole that needs leveling.

I also use them for garden bed fill as well.


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[George]

I had a half a dozen poplar trees that I had to take down in my woods and rather than let lay I'm turning them into cash, a local mill makes live edge countertops out of them.

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Nice log.

Those are nice looking logs. I have a 27 inch DBH walnut in my yard that needs to come out. It's 15 feet up to the first limbs. I wonder if I will have a hard time getting a logger for one tree, even though it should be a valuable tree.

Thieves come in and steal one black walnut log at a time.

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[Mennoniteman]

Those are nice looking logs. I have a 27 inch DBH walnut in my yard that needs to come out. It's 15 feet up to the first limbs. I wonder if I will have a hard time getting a logger for one tree, even though it should be a valuable tree.

First, the bad news is that the walnut price is down, supposedly there's similar wood coming being imported from South America at lower prices... Also, most loggers won't come out for less than a truckload. That being said, I'd cut it down and haul it to a mill myself with a pickup and trailer, that's what's going to pay the best. If you can hang tight for several years the price of walnut is apt to go back up.
P.S. My cousin will probably pay you a thousand or more if you bring it to PA.

 

[Mennoniteman]

Last years corn crop failed due to drought, but we're going to try again even though it's dry already. I planted no-till RR corn today with banded triple 19 fertilizer, and hopefully wil spray with Accuron tomorrow.

 

[Mennoniteman]

This year I'm trying something new, Roundup Ready alfalfa, today I drilled 12 lb per acre into a worn out ladino clover field. I'm going to spray this with imazethapyr 2sl and then let the clover and alfalfa fight for supremacy.
I've always got glyphosate to fall back on if needed.
I've got nothing to lose except the cost of the seeds, but at $10 a lb the RR alfalfa seed is a bit expensive.

 

[MarkDarvin]

Did you get to drilling any it’s this spring into some clovers? I always like seeing that.


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[Mennoniteman]

Did you get to drilling any it’s this spring into some clovers? I always like seeing that.


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I'm still kicking myself for having too many other commitments going on called "life", so I did not get small grain drilling done this March like I usually do, but I still might put out some spring oats. We have had a two year drought that has cost us several clover plots, and I'm scratching my head what to do with these, many different options of renewal, starting over, herbicide vs seeding etc. Knowing how much moisture we will be working with this year would make an instant difference in my decisions, but, although I'm connected to God, he chose not to reveal this to me

 

[MarkDarvin]

I'm still kicking myself for having too many other commitments going on called "life", so I did not get small grain drilling done this March like I usually do, but I still might put out some spring oats. We have had a two year drought that has cost us several clover plots, and I'm scratching my head what to do with these, many different options of renewal, starting over, herbicide vs seeding etc. Knowing how much moisture we will be working with this year would make an instant difference in my decisions, but, although I'm connected to God, he chose not to reveal this to me

Sometimes God sends internet friends to suggest drilling WGF sorghum, flax, sunflowers, and collards into a dried up clover plot.




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[Mennoniteman]

Sometimes God sends internet friends to suggest drilling WGF sorghum, flax, sunflowers, and collards into a dried up clover plot.




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I like this advice, I'm going for it. Stay tuned in for further developments!

 

[Flatiron75]

Sometimes God sends internet friends to suggest drilling WGF sorghum, flax, sunflowers, and collards into a dried up clover plot.




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Don't collards need more moisture??

 

[Mennoniteman]

Don't collards need more moisture??

@MarkDarvin is going to pray for rain for my plots