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Haul it back up the hill where it came from.

You should sample that silt in the bottom, I did this in a cattle pasture pond a couple years ago and there was quite a bit of fertility in it. It would also be interesting to know what may have been in the soil there to make that pond the EHD pond. Obviously the layout of the pond has a lot to...

My favorite one Ive built I used a tractor tire with one sidewall cut out and poured concrete in the bottom to seal it. I made sure I had it in the lowest area possible so the natural runoff would help keep it full.

In Minnesota… odds are she was lost

The DNR is in the process of clear cutting 300 acres of state forest here that a wildfire went through in 2023 and top killed a lot of the oak trees. They claim they’re worried it will come back with invasives if they leave the standing trees, but won’t it come back with invasives when it’s...

I’m going to use zidua pro, 2.5# of AMS, 32 oz of roundup, and 16 oz of mso this year , good on both corn and beans. In a perfect world I would spray right behind the planter because the trash whips can move the pre off the row a little bit. But if the logistics and weather won’t cooperate spray...

I would also add : one year lease = pel lime Owned/ long term lease=ag lime

The top 6” on an acre is something like 2,000,000 pounds of soil. If at all possible I would find a way to go with ag lime if your PH is way out of line and if the plot has much size to it. I’ve spread up to 10,000 pounds per acre of ag lime on fields. I would think a dump trailer or a small...

Our retailer in town is at $275 a ton for pel lime. I haven’t bought ag lime in a while but I’m thinking at was in the ballpark of $40-$50 a ton for the lime, trucked, and applied.

Judging from the trees in the field edges along the fields I spray they can take a lot of abuse from a wide variety of chemicals and seem to grow back faster. I had a patch of cedars I planted for a screen that got overtaken by poison hemlock about ten years ago. I hung the boom over them with...

AMS + MSO + roundup

I rotary tilled a few patches of brome last May and then seeded it thick right before a rain. Got a beautiful stand about 3’ tall first year. Didn’t have the option to spray most of the patches and rain stopped me from getting all but one patch packed. Packed and sprayed was the best stand but...

Shouldn’t need a bounty to convince anyone to kill coons, it’s not hard to do. There’s plenty of different legal ways to kill them and getting the government involved has never had a good track record. Buy a dozen coon cuffs or a couple boxes of shells for someone you know with a thermal and...

So one thing I did do differently was I sprayed roundup on the brome last fall and then seeded the switch around Christmas, then came back a couple weeks ago with big bluestem and Indian grass. And just for good measure hit the brome again with roundup( pretty early but I’m going to get busy at...

How long did it take for the switch to get established? I ask because I just did about 15 acres pretty much the same way. I have scattered natives already trying to fight the brome so just killing the brome should have helped a lot.

Couldn’t agree more, 1/1 buck to doe ratio being preached doesn’t work very well with EHD outbreaks.

I would Find someone with a thermal and take them through your ground over the next few weeks until you can’t find a coon anymore, and then don’t be surprised when you shoot just as many coons again next year. Burn brush piles when you can safely do it, and get a few coon cuffs. Come fall set a...

I don’t know what insects and diseases target brassicas but I would be skeptical if you were to do that year after year. We had leftover cover crop seed we scattered by our shop a couple years in a row and the radishes that were seeded in the spring all flowered and put seed on. You would want...

That’s definitely a possibility, I think the statistic that just sticks in my craw though is the number of gun and muzzleloader tags that go unfilled being around 85,000. Giving those same guys another gun season and 2 muzzleloader seasons to fill that tag. When you consider that the buck...

I’d support that for bow + 1 other season…. But anything more than that is going to have a negative impact. Youth tags have been floating yes but that’s like 6,000 hunters not 100,000. The whole point of having 2 gun seasons is to split hunters up so they aren’t all on top of each other. Also I...