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Cutting edge food plotting

CooterBrown said:
I wonder if using the cultipacker run one way and then 90 to cut the stem would work. My cultipacker has ridges around every 4 inches
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I’d guess yes that should work, little more work but at least most of us aren’t doing 15 acres.
 
BTaylor said:
@neonomad I know you mentioned broadcasting and rolling but do you have a NRCS office nearby where you could rent a drill? That is what we do for planting plots on my buddy's place. Seems like it cost a couple hundred dollars to rent. It is based on acreage planted and we are up to 19-20 acres. He had been seriously considering buying a drill but decided the rent was too cheap relative to the cost of a new one and decided to have a new crimper built that can be run off the front of the tractor ahead of the drill or can be run behind a tractor. Being able to drill will significantly reduce seed cost and improve germination. Not that broadcasting doesnt work. It does and can work well you just need to up the seeding rate for comparable results.
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Another thing I wish we had available, but unfortunately no. And I’m committed to trying hard with the tools at hand before thinking about buying equipment. Worst case I stick with small seeds indefinitely, get the discs out and spray sometimes. The greens plots did just fine this year. I’m just getting more and more leary of chemicals.

@kyler1945 yes if you like to be outdoors, solve tricky puzzles, and get humbled a lot with the occasional payoff (much like hunting in that sense), the habitat management thing is a rewarding rabbit hole, it’s an endless side game if you choose to dive in. Situation / tension with leaving the house to do it is just the same though.
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Closely related to the thread so far - another vid from Woods on neonics. I’m on the side of banning them and would consider non-treated seed for your plots.

 
Bwhana said:
Closely related to the thread so far - another vid from Woods on neonics. I’m on the side of banning them and would consider non-treated seed for your plots.

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I was just thinking about this last year… wondering how much of this rainbow colored seed are the turkeys filling up with. Agree gotta find some uncoated seed now. It’s frustrating because no matter how much effort I put in, the Ag around us more than cancels it all out, we can’t escape big Chem. The deer tests in that vid are fairly concerning. If we did tissue tests on ourselves wonder how much neonics, herbicides, micro plastics, and PFAs we’d find.
 
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