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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5100554" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Mega,</p><p></p><p>My place is all steep ridge-and-hollow. But to reduce erosion, the only places we'll make food plots is where it's almost perfectly flat. This leads to lots of long narrow plots along ridge-tops. Most are 150+ yards long by less than 30 yards wide. For one of my new plots, I used the widest ridge-top I've got on the property and the plot came out to 180 yards long and 60 yards wide. But keeping plots only on flat ground reduces erosion considerably. We still have some, but so far, not a major problem.</p><p></p><p>After many, many years of burning down all the plots with Roundup in August, we have few weeds in the existing plots. What used to grow 5-7 feet high with weeds and grasses over the summer now only have knee high foxtail and a few other broadleaf weeds when let go fallow for the summer months. This is our first attempt at warm-season annuals in a long time, so only time will tell how weed competition goes this year. In fact, as an experiment to see the worst case scenario, I did not herbicide the exist plots before tilling. Just tilled under the crimson and wheat. I'll be interested to see how much weed competition we get in those plots over the summer. IF it appears we have enough acreage to get forage soybeans up tall enough that deer can't wipe them all out right after germination, I'll probably switch to an all Roundup Ready mixture of summer crops in the future. But this first year is just an experiment, mixing buckwheat as a cover crop in with Iron and Clay Cowpeas and RR forage soybeans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5100554, member: 17"] Mega, My place is all steep ridge-and-hollow. But to reduce erosion, the only places we'll make food plots is where it's almost perfectly flat. This leads to lots of long narrow plots along ridge-tops. Most are 150+ yards long by less than 30 yards wide. For one of my new plots, I used the widest ridge-top I've got on the property and the plot came out to 180 yards long and 60 yards wide. But keeping plots only on flat ground reduces erosion considerably. We still have some, but so far, not a major problem. After many, many years of burning down all the plots with Roundup in August, we have few weeds in the existing plots. What used to grow 5-7 feet high with weeds and grasses over the summer now only have knee high foxtail and a few other broadleaf weeds when let go fallow for the summer months. This is our first attempt at warm-season annuals in a long time, so only time will tell how weed competition goes this year. In fact, as an experiment to see the worst case scenario, I did not herbicide the exist plots before tilling. Just tilled under the crimson and wheat. I'll be interested to see how much weed competition we get in those plots over the summer. IF it appears we have enough acreage to get forage soybeans up tall enough that deer can't wipe them all out right after germination, I'll probably switch to an all Roundup Ready mixture of summer crops in the future. But this first year is just an experiment, mixing buckwheat as a cover crop in with Iron and Clay Cowpeas and RR forage soybeans. [/QUOTE]
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