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It's amazing what a difference a cultipacker will do. Being relatively new to this I haven't been cultipacking but will be building one this winter. It poured after one of my seedings this fall and you could see the difference in germination, coming up much thicker. Have you had to cut the...

How heavy did you plant the falcata? I've seen that they recomend a very thin rate per acre. Is it seeding itself or is it autotoxic like other alfalfa? I've seen that you have drilled alfalfa and also tilled and planted, how did it do tilling and cultipacking?

Dbltree, are the deer still hitting your alfalfa pretty heavy? How is the falcata variety doing?

I over seeded two bushels of winter rye right before the rains came and we've had a fair amount of it since then with temps in the 50's for highs and 40's for low. I checked the fields this morning 10 days later and am really surprised how well they came up. I actually think it came up faster...

I'm having the same problem with my rye and oats we planted almost 9 acres with areas mixed with several types of brassicas, clover, field peas, quail soy, soybeans, and hairy vetch and the deer population has really hit the fields hard. I actually called yesterday to see if I can get more...

Thanks Now if it will only stop raining so I can get out there.

I sprayed and plowed a field three weeks ago and never got it planted with the rain and weeds are starting to pop up again. If I spray it again, how long before I can plant? I wanted to spray it tomorrow and plant it two days later. I've been using a quart per acre of Roundup weather max.

I tried to order from them about 3 weeks ago, they were very polite but gave me a little bit of a hard time about shipping costs with how they pay half on certain items. I'm located in Pa. and can understand that so I ordered from several different sources instead. Online from Ernst seed and...

Thanks, I was thinking of doing a soybean and field peas mixed plot this coming weekend and some brassicas elseware. This year has been so wet here that early plantings never happened and those that did locally aren't growing since it's been so cool and wet with almost all the fertilizer put...

Is 2-4db safe on field peas? It lists just about every legume but the label doesn't mention field peas.

If you can't find them local try Henry Fields. Their price was fair and they're sold as a pair. I asked about them when we placed our seed order for the garden this year. I had an issue with seed germination buying local last year.

I spoke with Ernst seed earlier this week and most of their wetland and boggy mixes contain a large amount of wildflowers in them driving the price way up and are not close to being cost effective. Plus they aren't what I was looking for. I had requested a catalog when I was on their website...

I was on Ernst Seeds site and saw they have a few different mixes for wetlands and riparian areas. I'm planning on calling on Monday.

Are there any grains or food sources that are tollerant. I was already looking into a few shrubs.

There's a 10 acre area on our farm that is marshy boarderline swamp in one spot. The ground is almost always wet with clumps of grass that are almost mounded, by that I mean about 6 inches above the wet areas. Trees grow throughout the wet areas but when they get big they have a tendency to...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dbltree</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> P.S....you must have hungry deer!! </div></div> I think your right, the other day there were 16 or 17 deer in my back yard on my septic mound. The snow wasn't as deep there...

I was wondering what were your choices in herbicides available when planting oats with clover and alfalfa. I recall seeing it in one of the threads but couldn't find it now. As I'm planning on using the oats as a nurse crop till the clover and alfalfa take off. In another area if was hoping on...

Thanks guys, looks like I'm going to have a busy year. Today I called the local dept of ag to get info for getting my pesticide license. Thanks to some of the posts here it seemed like the smartest way to go. That way I won't be constantly spraying herbicides trying to stay ahead of the weeds...

I'm located in Northeastern Pa. I'm looking at reclaiming our families farm that's been neglected for years. We have roughly 35-40 acres of farm fields with a total of just under 100 acres. 1. We have a trail that's about 15-20 feet wide that's a quarter mile long that used to be a trail till...