With the current forecast, what yall thinking on planting?

My fields will be ready to go tommorrow and will get planted next solid rain event or when it gets dry enough I can “dust” them in without worrying they will germijate

gonna plant saturday

I planted 7 acres just outside Andalusia behind the rain we got off Helene. Plenty of moisture and caught another rain a few days ago. Still have a lot left to plant middle of the month but got that 7 acres off my plate.

I will get the fields ready to plant, but no seed or fertilizer until several decent rain chances in forecast.

Planted mine at the house a couple weeks ago, we have had several good rains on it. It is located just above a river bottom and gets plenty of morning dews.. looks good so far but will top sow some clover and fert when we get another chance of rain

Planted behind the house 3 weeks ago right ahead of a rain and it’s looking pretty good

I planted last weekend, friday, saturday and sunday. Went out and broadcast cereal rye and fertilizer and disked it under the moist soil. That is all coming up and doing well. I am holding off on the brassica's and clover until I know more rain is coming. I hit every field I planned on putting clover on with 0-46-0 ahead of the last rain, so that has helped too.

The longer you wait to put brassicas in the ground the less likely you are to see any growth. Brassicas need to be planted early.

I’ve done decided to hell with the rain. I’m doing hay and I won’t worry about planting until later on when and if it starts raining. If not then I’ll hunt over corn.

I planted this past weekend. We haven’t had any rain at my place in 3 months so I covered everything deep and it will be there whenever it does rain. I’ve done it several times like this and never had a problem. It’s the same as being in the bag if there is no moisture in the ground

I planted this past weekend as well. Turkeys have found it but I dragged over it. We didn’t have rain for over a month last year and it came up fine. Be nice to have some though lol

I dont think we get rain the next 3 weeks

Then December we will get rain everyday and will not even be able to go use roads cause to wet even for a polaris

I will hit my miserable fields with some clover that i had left over right before a rain which prob be a month from now - typical 😀

Cant hav nothing

I never worry about planting until November . Same ol dry october almost every yr

I had about a half inch of rain at one of my spots last Friday. Almost planted the next day but came to my senses and waited. Come on November...

I planted a 3 acre plot that stays wet all hunting season on 10/1 and got 1/4-1/2" rain on 10/4. I used T&M method and had good layer of thatch so not really worried about it. Wheat is about 2" tall and there's still moisture in the ground. Unfortunately, I have to plant the rest of my fields this weekend as I will not have another free weekend until 11/16 due to travel baseball tourneys and 2 trips. Fingers crossed.

We will probably just hunt over the corn feeders early and about Feb 1st when it matters for us..... the fields will be looking like a John Deere green wheat and oats buffet.

Be about 30 deer out there.


Yep.... not in a hurry.

If you plant into this drought you will probably have issues. Still can't get my head around planting early. Deer prefer the tender young growth. When you have a drought the plants get stemy and tough that's just biology which some of you all claim you have an expert degree in. But you don't know how to apply what you have learned apparently. I have a degree in 2 areas.... #1 common sense. That's key. #2 identifying some BS. Also very helpful when dealing with "experts" on various subjects. Planting seeds that will germinate in my pickup truck bed is just one of those subjects.

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Dick head

What do u care know it all? Never mind - u too stupid to converse with - u earned a degree in peckerhead

I know i should not post this - but why be a prick? I was in a club in s bama that planted last weekend of sept for decades - i was in it over a decade and it didnt work out once. We still threw seed and had fields and it was the best club i ever been in that might hav 3-4 good racks laying on the ground opening gun weekend. The deer were half tame and what your numb nutted butt don't know or ever comprehend - opening weekend if the weather right and u hav stayed out of the fields - can be way - way more successful/successful than the rut - ya dip!!!

As long as the seed is covered it will be fine. Every year we go through this same sound and dance. It's food plots not a fraking corn field

I think its just his personality.....

Lots of folks agree with you Tdog. Some folks just can't help being a peckerhead.

Goat killer, I agree with the consensus. Dickhead. I'm 61 and have been planting food plots since the early 90s, before it was a big thing and we have always planted after labor day before the first significant rain event, which typically coincides with a hurricane. Plant with rain in the forecast, 2-3 days of rain, not by the calendar. Every bag of seed says plant sept-nov, 30 days before first frost. Deer are browsing on our plots now. That's why we plant them, to feed deer.

We’re going plant next week, whether it’s in the powder or mud. Doesn’t matter to us. We just plant them to say we plant them. When you put corn out by the drum loads under the security lights, food plots never really come to mind.

There are ways to relay thoughts, information, and opinions to others WITHOUT sounding like a know it all prick. Goat Killer has not mastered that aspect of communication. Either that or he simply chooses not to persue it.

I’ve gathered he puts great effort into the way he responds. I’ve not ever seen one single post where he wasn’t condescending and everybody who don’t do life like me is an idiot attitude.

He’s just one of those people that were born knowing everything about everything and is real happy to let everyone know he knows everything about everything. Just ask and he will tell you. I have to restrain myself because I could have lots of fun with him but I was always taught to respect my elders. Even when he tries to tell a retired farmer of 35yrs that he has no idea about anything to do with farming. I just read and laugh. Life to short to bother with people like that. I deal with enough people in my job now that I don’t let much bother me anymore. Sometimes he does share some really good knowledge and wisdom which I’m sure he is a wealth of, but just has a bad way of getting it out their.

To answer the OP's question, I'm looking at the last week of October . Before if we get a good rain in the forecast. Retirement has it's advantages .

BTW, I'm not jumping in the ring with Goatkiller, AKA Mr. Knowitall tonight, looks like y'all already got a TKO.

Ive planted some that are doing well now. Ill plant some more before it rains again. I live where im planting mine though. No more that a 5min tractor ride to any of them. If you have to travel to your hunting spot, i reckon you plant when you can.

Meanwhile………

Nice!

Looks like you got yours in the right window. I got two 1/2 ac experimental throw and mow plots in just before we got .5 inch a little over and they are doing great. Wish I had done more. The rest is tilled and ready to go. I will probably give it another week to really dry up enough not to kick off germination, plant and wait. Does not look like any real rain chance here the rest of the month.

Yeah we hit it right. Started Sept 18 and those fields have had 10+ inches on them. The ones I planted 7 days after our last rain are up 3-4”. Drilling them into the moisture is a game changer on germination and survival in these drier conditions. No rain anywhere in sight.

Matt, your fields are looking great. Mine are too. We planted around the same time.

Lucky dog ,I doubt we've had 10" of rain since May .

got it done this weekend just need some rain!!

I think y'all may have hurt Goatkiller's feelings on this one and run him off.......

Nah. That's the response he was wanting.

No regrets here on planting right before the Hurricane.

nice bpi

Thanks ! It could use some rain, no doubt, but it should be fine for a few more weeks. That on the right is the wild pear / kudzu kingdom that I've been at war with for 2 years. I'm thinking about getting it dozed into windrows and keeping it cut till it all dies off.

the pear tree produce ??

The only thing these produce are 4 inch spikes.

10 more dry days forecasted. Corn Cotton and beans should all get picked. Green fields not looking good

Ours at the club are about 6” high already but they are thirsty.

Every year........

What are y'all going to do? Re-plant?

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Hi Goatkiller...welcome back

Yes. Welcome back Sunshine !!

Once you get it up 3-4 inches with a good layer of thatch covering the ground, it'll be fine for a long time. Heavy dews help. Just sprouted plants with no thatch, your in trouble.

If less than 4" diameter Remedy + diesel as a basal bark spray. Larger than that I'd hack and squirt and there are several good options for herbicides.

Most of these are over 4 inches. What kind of herbicide do you suggest for it ?

50% Glyphosate in water or 20% Imazapyr in water or the Harper mix (50/40/10 Garlon 3/water/imazapyr) I’ve used all of these for HNS at one time or another. Triumph is the generic Tordon RTU and runs about $20/quart. It’s my go to for honey locust which
imazapyr is weak on. There are other options and I’m sure 007 or Hunterturf may have better insights.

If you want to kill any unwanted trees on road or field edges go ahead and cut the tree and treat the stump. They going to fall across your road or into the field once dead. Ask me how I know

What's up ladies.... Y'all gonna rent a water truck and hit your plots next week?

There was rain showing on accuweather on the 29th-31st. Its back to 0% now. Next chance at all is 11/12

This one’s still thriving, a few more to plant if it ever decides to rain again

I’d be afraid to have a full plot with no rain though…Shawn that field looks great! I just hope turkeys don’t eat all of mine. I planted first of October but covered over

What variety of turnips are those? They look great.

Good recommendations above..

For those two species, you could foliar spray with 12 oz/A of Method 240SL + 1-2 oz/A of Escort. I will always recommend an MSO for brush. This mix will kill both very well, However, Method will smoke pines, even just taking it up by the roots, so don’t spray that around pines you want to keep. The Escort at that rate can also knock the crap out of oaks through root uptake. BTW, Method is money on locust species.

Method isn’t cheap, but it works great on most legume species and conifers, among many other species.

It’s chicory, forage turnips and daikon radishes

I’ve had plots that looked like that, until they wiped them out mid season. After that, they’re done. I had to switch to a more oat/wheat/rye type plot to get through the entire season.

There’s wheat and oats in this and another strip of just wheat beside these. You’re right though, when they start on em they eat em down