Season came to a close yesterday, so its time to start a projects thread for the 176 acre CRP farm I rolled into after the sale of my 122 farm late summer. I closed just in time to get 9-10 acres of fall plots established.
The main goal for this spring is to get a 15 acre section of the CRP cleaned up and begin the process of establishing switch.
Same around here. Luckily my farm drains well but still have good dirt right off of the riverbottoms. Rain fertilizer seed and herbicide do some cool things
Just hope i have a deer worth hunting!
Even with no till, weeks and weeks of 95 plus degrees and no rain will be tough on the brassica. Although I guess most folks (not me) got a bunch of rain yesterday.
That corn looks great by the way. Like the no till drill, is it new? My problem is I'd have to also buy a bigger tractor.
Even with no till, weeks and weeks of 95 plus degrees and no rain will be tough on the brassica. Although I guess most folks (not me) got a bunch of rain yesterday.
That corn looks great by the way. Like the no till drill, is it new? My problem is I'd have to also buy a bigger tractor.
There was lots of rain the weeks prior. This plot is on top so drains well. Im not ever going to till another fall plot;l. We got rain the last two days. No-till certainly makes it more drought resistant due to not turning the dirt to dust with a tiller or disc(releasing all the moisture) prior to planting.
Ive had the drill since 2017 or 18 I believe but never tried brassicas/fall plots with it other than the cereal grains last fall (broadcast small seeds over top).
Corn is kicking a s s- way better dirt than my last farm (I am right off the east form Chariton River.)
What size is your tractor? I used to run this drill with my mfwd 40 hp MF.
Those look to be some great future kill plots! That attachment is pretty slick for ripping those cedars out, could really use something like for a few days!
Took a vacation day yesterday, lots of progress with new grapple bucket. Got 5 additional cedar logs for the mill. That Makes 9 of the 36 needed. Quick video of progress
Took a day to set tower posts and plant mescanthis screens. My buddy was renting tree planter to i took advantage of him having it and helped him plant on some of his clients farms. Planted about 2,000 rhizomes on my place. I’m pretty excited to see all this taking shape. Progress….
Thanks homie, lots of work to do. Never enough hours in the day after the office.
Update from this past weekend in addition to 4-5 more timbers harvested for the new house.
Finished up back filling bcl posts and blazed about 40 yards of the access trail to get in/out clean. Family going on 7 day trip to visit wifes family in AZ so will get lots done this week. Grindnnnnnnn
Got some major work done yesterday and Sunday. Borrowed buddy's reach forklift to get new blind on the platform.
Took yesterday off work and jammed out 11-12 hours on chainsaw and tractor skidding out a total of 18 big cedars for posts for the house, only need 6 more. I will still need to do some limbing on these but the tops will get stuffed in the fencerow to funnel deer through the gap next to the new blind.
Thats a wrap for 2022 harvest. This will give us all the posts/truss timbers for the patios on our new home at the farm. No one is more glad this complete that me I promise. Off to the mill
Got most of my electric fence up on the 2 soybean plots at the farm. Always seems like i have few people ask how i do the fence setup every year so shot a quick video of how i do it.
also mixed up a tank of burndown mix+ atrazine for a new native planting on 4-5 acre section.
What height above ground do you set your fencing? Just put my first fence up a week ago to protect a sunflower plot and did 24 for perimeter and 12/36 on the inside. Try to Google it and you get 10 different opinions, but I'd trust you've got experience with em
32-36
Not rocket science, ive never actually measured but in that neighborhood
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