Well I have Decided to cover all our seed and fertilizer with plastic that is setting one each plot and play the waiting game. Everybody going to be hunting over a big old corn pile anyways.

Yep, I see seed and fertilizer sales down and corn sales through the roof!

Wouldn’t the heat from the sun and plastic ruin the seed though?

Wouldn’t it make the most sense to wait until after the seed germinates and develops a root system before you fertilize??

Perhaps. May also depend on how easy/often you can access the land.

Decided to wait until Mother Nature decides to cooperate. Hopefully within the next 2-3 weeks something will break loose in the Gulf and bring us some much needed moisture.

It will not harm either of them. Probably cooler out in the middle of the plot than it is in most Feed and Seed warehouses.

Hope the coons don't find it before you plant.

Was able to check two spots I've planted a couple weeks ago. Bad news is that even though I planted into a dustbowl the wheat is germinating. Good news is nothing else has grown so it looks like top sowing some wheat and N won't be an issue when we finally get some rain. Glad I only did two spots out of 5 and just planted the cheapest thing out there.

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With a spaghetti model like this Karen might wind up in Oregon. I think I counted 9 high pressure symbols that are affecting the US. I'm not holding my breath for rain any time soon. It might be Thanksgiving before planting for us.

I thought you meant you were spreading seed and putting plastic over it. The picture made a lot more sense.

It rained hard at my office in Luverne today for about 20 seconds. That was it and the sun was right back out. When I heard it hitting the roof I about lost my mind. Pulled it up on the radar and it was just a tiny speck right on us

Come a gully washer about 15miles from us last night, fizzled out before it got here.

As of today we officially canceled planting for this weekend. Ground was so hard we could barely break it. We’ve tentatively rescheduled for the last weekend in October. We may not be able to get all 25 acres planted this year but better than wasting our money. What a year for baiting to be legalized. Acorns and corn should have deer all over them with no plots around until at least gun season

Hell, water tanks might not be a bad idea at this point

We are lucky to have quite a few spring creeks on our property. I’d bet if you have some property with sparse water, the water holes would be a good place to hunt.

Planted all ours yesterday. Turkeys can eat it if they want. It wont matter there is so much seed left over from the last 25 years of planting the same plots when it rains it will grow and be beautiful

we got most of ours planted yesterday. I’m gonna try and get everything finished before the rain next weekend

Where is this rain supposed to be?

Postponed putting seed in the ground and we're not going to plant until we get moisture. Going to spend "planting weekend" to do more bushhogging, trimming back roads and stand work. Going to get the tractors into some areas that are usually too wet and clean them up while we can. Hopefully this high pressure will weaken and Fall fronts will bring some moisture. Going to need to get a couple of inches of rain for it to make a difference.

Good news with this drought is that there seems to be about a third of the spiders in the woods that there were last year, which is a good thing when you are driving through the woods on an open cab tractor.