Plots at the farm update

Went up this weekend to spray and plant the brassica. I was quite impressed with how well the plots are doing. Most corn is waist tall and the beans very thick and healthy. Some weeds in the corn, but it is really starting to canopy so I spot sprayed them. The beans had pretty good amount of weeds again, but I hit them with a good dose of gly and by the time they die off the beans should have a nice canopy. I could watch the weed die off on the trail cam pics. Took about 2 weeks for them to completely disappear, then in about another week the new ones started to show up.

We turned about 4 acres of ground that had been spray a month ago and planted brassica in them. One I also added 3 lbs of ladino clover that should come back next spring. I will frost seed more clover in come spring.

Here are the plot pics

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more corn

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corn and beans planted together. I am going to do more of this next year. I planted the beans first, then switched the planter plates and seed and came back with corn between the rows. Where there is no corn the beans are very well browsed, in the corn they are hardly touched.

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beans

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another one of the beans

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Here is what we planted for brassica

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Everything is looking great. I saw on a Midwest Whitetail video that they were having problems with squirrels and other small animals in the corn when it was a few inches high because they figured out that there was a corn kernel at the base of it. To combat that they they fed corn around the edges of the plot for the squirrels until the corn had a chance to grow. Did/do you have any issues like that?
DT

I really don’t get much damage to the corn when it is young. The turkeys get a few seeds, cultipacking helps with that, but I haven’t ever seen squirrels get the seeds or young plants. Now once the corn gets cobs the squirrels and coons put a hurtin on the young cobs before they mature.

You’ve really got terrific looking plots there. It’s going to be a LONG time before I’ve got anything that nice looking. All that black soil with no rock… wow.

Post some pictures of your forage crops when they get established. Would really like to see what your brassicas looks like.

Grouse

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

You’ve really got terrific looking plots there. It’s going to be a LONG time before I’ve got anything that nice looking. All that black soil with no rock… wow.

Post some pictures of your forage crops when they get established. Would really like to see what your brassicas looks like.

Grouse

X2 on the brassica pics, I’m also curious to see what they are looking like right now.

Thanks guys, I will be up the first week in August and I’ll try to remember to get some pics of the brassica. I really hope this big storm tonight doesn’t drop a bunch of hail on the plots.