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Old clover plot needed redone. Last time I planted it was right after my mother passed away in 2017, and with health issues and life, I let it get out of hand. Sprayed it with gly and 2 4d last week. Would like for it have been a little more brown, but went on and burned off what would burn yesterday to try to expedite prep, most of it did burn.
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Tilled this morning. I usually like to use Pennington's wintergrazer rye grain with clovers, but have to order that from CPS, and I didn't get an order in this year. So instead went with 50lbs of co-op's forager wheat and about 15 lbs of domain forage oats mixed in. Do have one corner I need to go back and fill in, ran out in the spreader.

Broadcast pelletized lime and 6-12-12, then came back and rolled/packed with my little Kubota. Plan to hand spin about 12-15 lbs of variety of bagged perennial clover mixes tomorrow if I can get out in the morning between rain.
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With the Army Worms invading TN again this year, you'll be glad you didn't plant the rye. Army Worms will clean out the rye before moving to the wheat/oats.
 
It absolutely will NOT rain at my place! All around me within like 2 miles but nothing right on me. Been that way all summer.
 
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We got .4 in yesterday. Drilled 3ac into cut corn today and ground had just enough moisture left for the blades to cut well.

Redrilled another 2 acres that completely failed, and drilling the last 10 acres that haven't been planted yet this year. Plus layered down another 300lbs of cereal rye in plots that were drilled 10d ago and didn't get any rain from the last tropical storm
 
BSK said:
Got all my seeding finished today. 700 lbs of wheat seed broadcast.

I'm thrilled with the germination I'm seeing from what I planted just before the last hurricane came through.
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Looking good! How many acres you working with again for food plots? I planted our last 4 acres yesterday and then we got an inch of rain right after. Very thankful!
 
Had some light drizzle yesterday, but no real rain. Weather underground has changed a couple times since yesterday morning. When I looked last night they had over 4 inches forecast for tomorrow, now they have backed down to 2.75, but between tonight through Sunday should get plenty to get this plot going and should help my smaller fall plot and my pastures as well.
 
I'll believe it when it falls from the sky. Same models as before and we barely got 3/4s of an inch. East tn is in the money. Middle to west we will see.
 
deerhunter10 said:
I'll believe it when it falls from the sky. Same models as before and we barely got 3/4s of an inch. East tn is in the money. Middle to west we will see.
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I'm between Sweetwater and Athens; only got 4/10ths so far. Weather underground still says we'll get 2" today; we'll see
 
BSK said:
Good for you!
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Hopefully the plot will be good for my wife and son to get opportunities on a good deer, and be good for the local wildlife as well. We don't have much ground, so try to do what i can to encourage deer to use our property. I usually prefer to hunt more in the woods, but I definitely won't pass hunting a plot if a deer I am after is showing up there.
 
backyardtndeer said:
Hopefully the plot will be good for my wife and son to get opportunities on a good deer, and be good for the local wildlife as well. We don't have much ground, so try to do what i can to encourage deer to use our property. I usually prefer to hunt more in the woods, but I definitely won't pass hunting a plot if a deer I am after is showing up there.
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For us, the problem is attracting deer to the highest hunting pressure property in the area. Few of my neighbors hunt hard anymore. We've got a lot of hunters in the woods on my place, producing a lot of pressure. The three things that draw deer to our place is 1) acorns, but we don't have any this year; 2) food plots, and it was looking like we wouldn't have those either; and lastly 3) thick security cover, of which we have the best of that among the surrounding properties.

Problem is, last time we didn't have acorns or food plots (2022) we had the worst season in 20 years.
 
We've had just over an inch this week at our club on the plateau and finally a 1/2" in sumner county.
 

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