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Post by jimstc on Sept 9, 2018 16:16:04 GMT -5
Got my Whitetail Institute tubers spread yesterday. Liked the looks of the ground so well that I ordered some oats, winter peas and Imperial clover. Frost seeded some Imperial Clover last winter and it looks fantastic. Planning on two acres of the clover next Spring. That is really nice clover. Might figure this out some day...... Ordered the seed yesterday. Expected delivery is tomorrow. Comes from Lexington, KY. I like that I plan on quite a bit or frost seeding clover around March. It seems easy and effective. I am a frost seeding convert. It works. I was lucky for my first planting as it snowed the day after I planted. I will frost seed every year. No bugs. No sweat. My kind of food plot work
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 9, 2018 17:24:38 GMT -5
I got my little plot in August 31. We put in oats, radishes, turnips and ladino clover. We had a decent rain that evening and the last couple days we got toad stranglers.
I’ll give it another week and then go take a look see..
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Post by jbird on Sept 10, 2018 9:39:59 GMT -5
My turnips I checked this weekend. I should have some good bulbs as an emergency food source.... I'll spread some winter wheat soon as well. My corn didn't do so hot as I planted conventional corn (never again) and the grasses just got to be too much, makes good cover though! My clover/chicory plot seems to be doing pretty well......planted this spring....twice. Weeds too k over the first time after I cleared and burned. I went heavy on the chicory because I think it iw be a great deer draw for early bow.
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Post by bigjim on Sept 11, 2018 10:17:26 GMT -5
Hey guys we all, or most of us, live in Indiana. It pains me to read the different Brand name products you guys are using. The $40-$80 5-10 pounds of product with the big deer pictures and fancy relabelling can be had for pennies on the dollar. Just put in my fall plots, rye $10/50lbs , winter peas $1/5lbs, landino $2/5lbs, oats $10/50lbs. Guys go to your local coop or feed store. All the fancy bags are doing is repackaging this stuff. You dont think monsanto, pioneer, etc are doing even more research than the tv guys??!!
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Post by swilk on Sept 11, 2018 13:12:48 GMT -5
Local for me, always. I've got about $75 in seed across 5 acres. Deer have always seemed to like it just fine...
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Post by bigjim on Sept 11, 2018 23:31:09 GMT -5
Yep good call we have never had great luck with them but purpl top turnips and all the brassicas, chicory etc can also be had for literally pennies on the dollar.
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Post by parrothead on Sept 13, 2018 5:57:22 GMT -5
BigJim, where did you get your Landion clover at for 40 cents a lb?
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Post by antiwheeze on Sept 13, 2018 8:48:07 GMT -5
Wind whipped the Egyptian wheat again. Think it's too late for it to straighten back up
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Post by jimstc on Sept 13, 2018 12:30:30 GMT -5
Hey guys we all, or most of us, live in Indiana. It pains me to read the different Brand name products you guys are using. The $40-$80 5-10 pounds of product with the big deer pictures and fancy relabelling can be had for pennies on the dollar. Just put in my fall plots, rye $10/50lbs , winter peas $1/5lbs, landino $2/5lbs, oats $10/50lbs. Guys go to your local coop or feed store. All the fancy bags are doing is repackaging this stuff. You dont think monsanto, pioneer, etc are doing even more research than the tv guys??!! Good solid advice. Thanks. I attribute where I get my seed (Whitetail Institute) to laziness. Go on line, read a bit, order seed and get seed in a couple of days. Zero effort. Nonetheless, next year I will follow your advice. Thanks for the motivation. Heck I live one mile from Beck's hybrids and two miles from Crop Production Services and about ten miles from the Coop. I really do not have an excuse..
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Post by jbird on Sept 17, 2018 10:54:49 GMT -5
Hey guys we all, or most of us, live in Indiana. It pains me to read the different Brand name products you guys are using. The $40-$80 5-10 pounds of product with the big deer pictures and fancy relabelling can be had for pennies on the dollar. Just put in my fall plots, rye $10/50lbs , winter peas $1/5lbs, landino $2/5lbs, oats $10/50lbs. Guys go to your local coop or feed store. All the fancy bags are doing is repackaging this stuff. You dont think monsanto, pioneer, etc are doing even more research than the tv guys??!! I use a local source if I can. I tend to use a place in Greensburg called Grazing System Supply (man I need to get some sort of a sponsorship deal from them - because I tell everybody I know) they target forage production and the like, but carry cover crops as well. I tend to get all my winter peas, turnips, radish, wheat, rye and oats from there. I stopped in saturday and bought 2 bags of winter wheat for plotting (spread one and holding the other for next year). They also carry alfalfa and clovers as well as forage grasses. They tend to have or can get anything I want except for my corn and soybeans..... I also prefer supporting a local business if I can. Clay tends to be the one in the store and he is a deer hunter himself, so he can point you in the right direction if you need some help. On a similar note - sometimes the ease of BOB seed at the local retailer is OK. Sometimes you don't need a lot and only planting a small kill plot. Just realize that many BOB seed mixes have fillers and the like and some even have different sized seed which can make establishment difficult. Some even may contain seed you don't want.....so be sure you read the seed tag (each bag is required by law to have one) and ensure you know what you are buying.
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Post by throbak on Sept 17, 2018 11:35:17 GMT -5
It's not too late by a long shot either. Tobbacco fields here always put down a cover crop Those fields always look good when I like to use them. late in Archery and mzl season their always going great late Nov and Dec put them out now
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Post by parrothead on Sept 17, 2018 11:41:37 GMT -5
How much was the winter wheat? I paid 18.50 for mine and Co-Op.
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Post by greghopper on Sept 17, 2018 19:11:25 GMT -5
It's not too late by a long shot either. Tobbacco fields here always put down a cover crop Those fields always look good when I like to use them. late in Archery and mzl season their always going great late Nov and Dec put them out now Beware of them bacco fields they will put some age on a person.....work work work!
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Post by ukwil on Sept 19, 2018 20:12:42 GMT -5
Turkeys and deer have wiped out one of my plots. Over seeded it and my dove plot with winter rye today. It looked like hogs had been in the plot. It's down to bare dirt.
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Post by bill9068 on Sept 21, 2018 16:09:11 GMT -5
I just planted turnips and radishes this last Tuesday, so should be up good by late October.
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Post by genesis273 on Sept 22, 2018 11:55:29 GMT -5
Mine has taken off. Obviously a lot to learn yet on my end
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Post by Woody Williams on Sept 22, 2018 14:39:21 GMT -5
Planted feed oats, radishes, purple top turnips and Ladino clover on August 30. Looks pretty decent.
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Post by deadeer on Sept 22, 2018 18:17:24 GMT -5
Planted feed oats, radishes, purple top turnips and Ladino clover on August 30. Looks pretty decent. Looks good! Up in the NW, rain has been sparse when needed. Every plot here is lookin rough, and some are gone totally. Hopefully it all works out.
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Post by parrothead on Sept 24, 2018 6:51:11 GMT -5
Looks good Woody. I put winter wheat in my garden yesterday. Rain today so good timing.
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Post by jbird on Sept 24, 2018 13:51:37 GMT -5
My turnips are growing..... My north corner plot area.....edge is planted in turnips and wheat, center area is white clover, trees in cages are persimmons, sawtooth oak and chestnut trees, small corn plot to serve as food and screen from the larger ag field. Dinner is served!
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