Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
Perfect timing on the rain, 3200 trees just planted...
Anyone else plant a bunch of trees this year??
Anyone else plant a bunch of trees this year??
Good luck on the plum. I can't keep them off of them. I'm going to try solar electric. 12 volt of course but 110 volt is on my mind. LOL.I had most of mine planted as part of the CRP with 90% cost share...oak, plum, spruce, pine, crabapple and some hackberry and aspen.
Wow. Are those wild plum?View attachment 114053 I've got one farm, that lacked deer while the plums were growing, now I have 100+ plums producing.
Deer are there now.
Wow. Are those wild plum?
I was going to ask about the tree CRP buffer. Is that contract a one time deal or is it renewable? I am hoping to sign up for some buffer next year on a farm and haven't made it to the USDA office to talk to them about the specifics of the tree version vs. the natives.Skips above advice is spot on. When the buffer Crp was really popular we planted 10s of thousand of trees with high deer density and no budget for tubes or fencing we probably have less then 10 percent survival. One thing I had some luck with was if the site was killed dead sprayed with oust then drop junk trees out from the edge to hide them from the deer.
More maintence on less trees would have yielded a better finished product.
I was going to ask about the tree CRP buffer. Is that contract a one time deal or is it renewable? I am hoping to sign up for some buffer next year on a farm and haven't made it to the USDA office to talk to them about the specifics of the tree version vs. the natives.
That's the deal with the trees.... i've seen people doze them all back out when contract expired to go back to crop. Obviously doesn't make a lot of sense.