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I drilled beans on Saturday and had corn planted on Sunday. We finally got some good rains Monday and Tuesday. Am I crazy to think that I could spray pre-emergent on these fields this Friday?

As it relates to a formerly predominantly oak, walnut and hickory timber that was unfortunately high graded pretty badly... If one wanted to revitalize and improve the timber for future generations, what input can fellow IW's provide? I intend to whack virtually all ironwoods, a lot of the...

I couldn't copy the link on my phone, but there is a fixer-upper wagon/cart on the Schoeblen sp? site in Riverside, IA, for only $250. It looks like it needs tires, etc, but if you are looking to build a "cart blind"...this would be a good start IMO. It's listed on FB Marketplace.

I only took one pic, but we pulled off a nice timber burn yesterday. We used leaf blowers to make fire breaks and otherwise used creekbed dropoffs to contain it. Where the timber met the field on one side, we ran the tiller down the edge of field. Everything went smoothly. This pic is the...

Just an FYI regarding the pull of fresh browse. We live on the edge of town and from time to time there will be deer in our side yard (apple tree) and around our yard some too. We lost a bunch of branches off of some of our trees the other day in that ice storm, mainly off of a big maple in...

Bargain drill See link above. I know nothing about this other than what is in the link, but this might really be a good deal for someone with a suitable tractor.

My son Mark, on his 30th birthday today, took out our #1 target with 3 minutes of shooting light to spare. Recovery is underway, I will post more pics once we have them. This is a 7.5 old survivor and one of our smarter bucks through the years. He has been a pretty regular homebody over the...

I have 5 bags of rye that I was planning on drilling in on some bare dirt just to provide soil cover, etc, over the winter and spring. With day after day of no rain, I waited until there was rain in the forecast and alas, there was none. So now I late, late in the planting window but I am...

I have some bare dirt where I have recently had a pond built and I would like to establish switch on the back side of the dam. It is all bare dirt now. I also have some switch seed on hand. Would it be a good idea to drill in switch now? Or, if not, assuming I don't want to leave the soil...

I have 3-5 bags of buckwheat that is a little over a year old now and has been kept well inside, etc. I also now have a couple of acres of new, bare dirt as I just had a new pond built on my property near Iowa City. I was going to use my G5 drill to plant something here in the next week or so...

All, I will be planting brassicas here soon and I want to use my no till drill to do so. Previously, my usual routine is that I would spread Urea, till it in, broadcast seed and then cultipack. What are my options in terms of higher N content fertilizer that is not volatile and can lay on...

Using a Genesis drill, I planted a 2 acre field of soybeans about 3-4 weeks ago now and have had some rains on the field. The beans came up looking fairly good, but I also had some weed growth happening too. The beans are RR tolerant, so I sprayed them last Saturday and would anticipate...

I found a nice shed today from the seat of my tractor. :) Believe it or not, a gust of wind laid the grass down about 30 yards down hill from where I was driving and I thought I saw some white, bone like structure sticking up that wasn’t moved by the wind. So I hopped off the tractor and...

My son recently found a dead buck while shed hunting that we were pretty sure was laying out there somewhere, as he has been a regular for a couple of years at least and then just went AWOL sometime in August I believe, maybe Sept. We were pretty sure that he was one of our EHD casualties and...

I am strongly considering getting a different NT drill this year and I am curious what input people here would have. I currently have a pull behind drill that has been mostly adequate, but I am thinking that I want a 3PT model. My tractors are in the 40HP range and therefore I think I would be...

The good news is that my son Mark got our #1 target buck this morning. A big bodied, modest racked 7 year old. He was the true definition of a "bully buck". He saw him two separate times this morning as he was prowling for does. Mark also saw him with a doe last Sunday on our place and a...

Three separate neighbors reported finding dead deer around water(ponds) on their places this past weekend. The carcasses were relatively fresh and all were does as I understand. One immediately across the road to the north of me, one more on the property north of him and then three on the...

All...just because this subject gets discussed here at times...from a recent Farm Bureau publication (Spokesman), refer to the snippet below regarding land ownership in Iowa. "As Iowa’s farmland owners continue to age, other trends in land ownership have emerged, according to an Iowa State...

I was marking trees this past weekend for an upcoming timber harvest and I had a couple of trees like the one shown below. Because I prefer to keep a fair number of white oaks, I am only taking white oaks where I have others nearby that are also either mature now OR 2/3 of the way there. The...

All - I am planning on having at least some part of my timber logged sometime relatively soon. If I could describe it in general, I would say that I have plenty of hickory, mostly shagbark, some pig hickory too, good amounts of white oak in some areas and fair amounts of red oaks in other...