Mo-Ape Acres - 2017 Habitat Journey

I'm afraid I planted my Egyptian wheat a little too thick. This has been in the ground for about a month and only knee-high
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In better news, I believe my three babies will have blue teeth after I bring this bag home to them:
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Had a new 1.5 acre permanent timber clearing done this week on a ridge top. This ground was literally mixed hardwoods three days ago, including some 24-30" trees. I'll be planting this in clover with a cereal eye cover:
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The access road connecting this new plot connects with my 5-acre destination plot and should be an awesome ambush point:
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You seem to have quite the game plan together and seem to be progressing well. Look forward to the updates.
 
Long day spent getting cool season plots in before some expected rains.
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Egyptian wheat is creeping along, one strip is a solid 6' tall and the other isn't far behind. I certainly planted it too thick, but is already providing a meaningful screen:
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Nice! Only question I have is how does a new ridge top plot have no rocks? Here anything that is a ridge is completely made of rock with aite soil holding them together...
 
Nice! Only question I have is how does a new ridge top plot have no rocks? Here anything that is a ridge is completely made of rock with aite soil holding them together...

I was really shocked too. It's actually not terrible soil up there. I'm just a few miles from the Mississippi River so I have plenty of glades & rock outcroppings on the farm too.


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Progress check-in. Was up over Labor Day weekend and have some major excitement building. We are in a full-on Indian Summer drought in NE Missouri and a few random sprinkles would blow things up.

The Egyptian wheat screens finally hit their stride, definitely 10+ feet in most places. I divided a long narrow field into smaller 1-acre plots:
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The first year Miscanthus rhizome plantings are doing really well, I did a poor job of killing weeds before planting but they are survivors:
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Food plots planted on 8/16 are doing well, a mix of cereal grains and turnips/radish. I have about 5 acres of this mix:
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Clover plots are primed for a fall draw:
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My newest timber plot was planted in rye, clover and chicory 8 days before this pic was taken. Crazy to think that this was hardwood timber a month ago:
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The best pics from the weekend are of my lovely bride. I was a half-mile away hanging a deer stand when she and our 7-year old boy decided to take the boat out on our lake. She caught two 6 lb+ bass in less than 30 minutes. I still don't think she realizes how special of an afternoon that was.

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The rains of the last few weeks have treated us well.

Here’s a bottom plot of brassicas and some cereal rye
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Here’s a shot of a 5 acre destination plot, 40% brassicas/40% cereal & 10% clover
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Fine views from the ol’ nap shack
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