Beans are coming in good

The beans in both plots at home are coming in good. Next week will be the first application of Gly.

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Looks great. Still have yet to get to the hunting land this spring.
DT

Looking good.

I just got soybeans planted on Saturday.

Which was a good thing. I almost planted about 10 days earlier and I would have gotten frozen out by that late frost northern MN had last week. I had several customers get hit with that frost after they planted their beans before May 15.

Beans look super! Here’s the start of year 2 on my Mega Clover Plus plots. Did some frost seeding back in March to fill in the bare spots. I should say this is up near Walker, MN.

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Clover looks AWESOME!!

Do, the Mega Clover Plus looks awesome!

Grouse

The beans look great!
The clover looks great!

I gave up on the beans. Even the fast growing forage beans that grouse sells.
2 years, 2 acres and by Oct. they were 6″ high from heavy foraging on them. Not a pod in the bunch.
I had a small area sectioned off and every plant was over 4′ tall and bushy with a fair number of pods.
The deer just hammer em so there was nothing left to draw them in during the season or winter feed. I can’t justify feeding them when there’s a ton of other forage around that time of year.

haleysgold wrote:

2 years, 2 acres and by Oct. they were 6″ high from heavy foraging on them. Not a pod in the bunch.

You may have to seriously consider taking up deer hunting.

Sorry. I had to say it. Normal service can now resume.

Grouse – not sure how to take that but I’ll assume it was meant in good nature.

I have a lot of deer, no doubt. 60 acres and every tillable inch is planted for wildlife. With $7 a bushel corn this year, the wildlife will still get it all. I manage the woods for wildlife.
It’s what I enjoy. That and I can’t handle the idiots at the boat ramps on the weekends!

We take 4 to 8 deer every year and could easily shoot more.

Sorry, I had to say it.
Now, normal service can resume…

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Grouse – not sure how to take that but I’ll assume it was meant in good nature

It’s my standard joke for overbrowsing situations. Which basically represents the biggest issue for wildlife property managers in the north. You plant it and too many show up to eat it.

So yes, I was joking. I have 3 customers that I know of who run wildlife properties but do NOT hunt.

Grouse

Don’t these beans look great? That’s what makes nuking them tomorrow with 2-4d so tough. But it has to be done. The plots are covered with pigweed or waterhemp. Not sure which it is, but it’s glyphosate resistent.

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Its crazy the amount of stuff thats getting round up resistant. Sprayed my sweetcorn patch and it wouldnt even kill the dandelions. To many years of little over spray along the field apparently. Doesnt even make the ragweed sneeze. Lucky the sweetcorn can handle 2-4D cause that fixed the problem in a day.

We’ve had good luck so far with intensive tilling. We bought a Kioti and use a King Kutter 60” tiller. The areas we plant get tilled twice about two weeks apart and we get very little invasion. Our clover plots get good fertilizer and they, the clover, choke out everything else.

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Replanted beans today

Looking amazing!

Nice looking plot