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What a difference some Forest Mulching makes!
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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5802523" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Just basically an input cost savings.</p><p></p><p>I used cereal rye 3y ago in my blend instead of wheat, at nearly 3x the cost of wheat (roughly $13 per 50lb vs $33 per 50lb). I didn't see any real change in deer usage of the plots compared to wheat, so I switched back to using wheat. I'm planting around 20 acres, so that's a $400 savings roughly just on that one component of the fall blend.</p><p></p><p>I'm not brave enough to claim seed/fertilizer for deer plots as a farming tax writeoff, so it comes right out of my pocket. If I get much over $1500 annually, my wife who doesn't hunt gets pretty pissy. Now IF I get a good stand of summer or winter plantings, I can chop for haylage, write off the cost of the seed/fertilizer offset by income from the haylage.... but then I lose all that organic matter and retained fertilizer in the haylage removed, making for poorer soils in the long run, as well as higher fertilizer input costs annually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5802523, member: 2805"] Just basically an input cost savings. I used cereal rye 3y ago in my blend instead of wheat, at nearly 3x the cost of wheat (roughly $13 per 50lb vs $33 per 50lb). I didn't see any real change in deer usage of the plots compared to wheat, so I switched back to using wheat. I'm planting around 20 acres, so that's a $400 savings roughly just on that one component of the fall blend. I'm not brave enough to claim seed/fertilizer for deer plots as a farming tax writeoff, so it comes right out of my pocket. If I get much over $1500 annually, my wife who doesn't hunt gets pretty pissy. Now IF I get a good stand of summer or winter plantings, I can chop for haylage, write off the cost of the seed/fertilizer offset by income from the haylage.... but then I lose all that organic matter and retained fertilizer in the haylage removed, making for poorer soils in the long run, as well as higher fertilizer input costs annually. [/QUOTE]
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