Food Plots RAIN!!

[tellico4x4]

1.7" last night, Wayne/Hardin line

 

[BSK]

That will help! We only got 0.14"

But lots more chances over the next week or so.

 

[boonencrockett]

Substantial rains in east tenn last 2 weeks

 

[tellico4x4]

That will help! We only got 0.14"

But lots more chances over the next week or so.

Tallied up June and we only got 1.98" but May was over 12". 1.80" of Junes came the 10 days after I planted so should be good.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

.2" last night at our place

 

[BSK]

Tallied up June and we only got 1.98" but May was over 12". 1.80" of Junes came the 10 days after I planted so should be good.

We got virtually nothing in May. We went four weeks without a drop. Then we got 2.56" in June, starting the 11th. We have 1.41" so far in July, and at least the 1st half of July looks like it will be quite wet.

 

[megalomaniac]

Planted Memorial Day weekend... no rain for 2 weeks after that.
50lbs forage beans/ 3lbs buckwheat/ 3lbs pearl millet/ 3lbs milo per acre. Decent rain second half of June until now. Most of my plots look like this...

From a distance, it looks great, but there is a lot of grass and weed competition due to no rain for 2 weeks. There's plenty of the good stuff mixed in (beans and buckwheat), but they are a little behind where they should be. Lots of feeding on the beans.

 

[megalomaniac]

Same blend. Same drill depth setting... for whatever reason, this particular plot had very little weed competition, but the milo and millet are too thick for the beans to compete

 

[megalomaniac]

My clover plot (now mostly volunteer clover) that I haven't spent a dime on other than bushhogging and just drilling thru it in the fall with a blend of wheat/ radishes/ Balansa clover (no herbicides) is doing great again this year

 

[tellico4x4]

Planted Memorial Day weekend... no rain for 2 weeks after that.
50lbs forage beans/ 3lbs buckwheat/ 3lbs pearl millet/ 3lbs milo per acre. Decent rain second half of June until now. Most of my plots look like this...

From a distance, it looks great, but there is a lot of grass and weed competition due to no rain for 2 weeks. There's plenty of the good stuff mixed in (beans and buckwheat), but they are a little behind where they should be. Lots of feeding on the beans.

Yup, lots of grass...

 

[tellico4x4]

My clover plot (now mostly volunteer clover) that I haven't spent a dime on other than bushhogging and just drilling thru it in the fall with a blend of wheat/ radishes/ Balansa clover (no herbicides) is doing great again this year

Looks great!

 

[BSK]

Came a deluge at my place yesterday afternoon. 2.44" in two hours.

 

[Big Pop]

The cooler than normal temperatures (sorry climate changers-not really) has played a big role in not requiring as much rain due to less evaporation.