Got the Tractor in the field

[delbert]

Bushhogged down the corn , and got one field reworked and ready to plant.
planting is still a few weeks away,,one of my buds just got a older johndeer tractor, with 2 running we can cover some ground

[Hunting Man]

way way ahead of me, PA will be late May before planting. I have to kill everything this year then plant after 3 weeks. Good to see your out already.

what are you going to put in?

[Hunting Man]

ronn, not sure yet. I like late season brassicas for one plot, don't know for the other. Any good ideas??? I did mow both plots last fall and will enlarge the total area planted after I kill it all. I would like to try something new like extreem from whitetail institute. Grows tall and has several different types of food in it. Pretty expensive though. Really don't know yet. Delbert what all do you plant and how big are your plots? Ronn, what will you put in your plots this year and when can you get to them?

i like your late season. for an early through summer i would pick something like alfa-rack (alfalfa and clover)from them or just their clover or maybe their extreme but i'm not sure whats in it. i think you'd get more than one year out of these. save some on the fertilizer also with the alfalfa and the clover. its still best to do all the normal stuff with extreme like fertilize and lime. not sure on the cost and the alfa-rack, probably up there. higher protein than plain alfalfa. but it needs to be mowed a couple times a year to keep the new growth coming same with the clover. oh it says you can't use a herbicide with the extreme.

[Hunting Man]

I believe extreem has sunflowers to let the peas grow up on and some other lants for low level feed. The claim is the deer will bed down in the tall stuff.

i got their sample kit last year. it has 2 packs of all kinds of seeds in it. alfa-rack, alfa-rack plus,extreme,chic magnet, clover, double cross,no-plow,chicory plus. 16 bucks i think and a great dvd along with a magazine once in a while and a news letter.

[Hunting Man]

ya I get the magazine too, loaded with good ideas. Their products are pretty steep too. year before last I used farmer quality clover mix but weeds moved in and I'm not sure how it would have worked out. Tired of wasting money so time to kill!

[Hunting Man]

I do like to add chickory to whatever I plant, it seems to grow well and deer like it and it's high in protein.

they have herbicides that will kill everything but what you want to grow, but if its a mix how you you go about using a herbicide? this is a question i haven't seen an answer to.