Forums46
Topics537,992
Posts9,731,505
Members87,053
|
Most Online25,604 Feb 12th, 2024
|
|
|
Who's Planting?
#6227659
03/18/16 04:31 AM
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 5,711
STXHO
OP
THF Trophy Hunter
|
OP
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 5,711 |
We are getting ready to plant sunflowers in 2 months, just called and ordered seed Is anyone else planting in May?
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6227667
03/18/16 04:50 AM
|
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 6,183
Mike Honcho
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 6,183 |
I think we are doing 10-20 ac at our place. What seed did ya order and from where haiden.
“Two things that define an individual what you do when you have everything, and what you do when you have nothing."
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6227716
03/18/16 10:09 AM
|
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,177
sallysue
Veteran Tracker
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,177 |
Turner Seed is where I get mine
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6227729
03/18/16 11:32 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 11,788
wal1809
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 11,788 |
We are going to plant millet in the duck pond.
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6227960
03/18/16 02:23 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,038
Greekangler
Veteran Tracker
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,038 |
Millet to supplement moist soil- way too early for Millet in N TX- first week August for me and the following 3-4 weeks
Take a kid Huntin
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6227986
03/18/16 02:41 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 459
Flock Knocker
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 459 |
We are going to have to put in cover crops this summer, price of sunflowers is very high and none of the farmers in North Texas are planting them this year. Mostly corn and wheat, plan to come in and plant sesame or millet once crops are out.
Stop Searching and Start Hunting! www.THREECURL.COM469-289-1HOG (1464) Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @ Three Curl Outfitters Guided Duck, Dove, Goose, Hog, Varmint Hunts North Texas and Kansas Season and Annual Leases available
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6228001
03/18/16 02:46 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 447
woodduckhunter
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 447 |
will be planting approx. 30 acres of rice mid-late may, possibly about 10 acrs of corn if the river stays down and it dries out enough, will just be millet if it doesn't. that and around 100 acres jap/browntop anytime from late july to early sept. I have the ground prepped and ready to plant in late july, and try to plant it before a rain. Ideally, id like to do it around mid august, but if a good rain comes a little early ill go ahead and plant. Do that to save having to "flush"
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: sallysue]
#6228164
03/18/16 04:30 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 7,977
Stompy
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 7,977 |
Turner Seed is where I get mine 5 miles from me. My native's come back year after year, just have to add a little fertilizer every now and them. Got all my fields turned back in January and already have Sunflowers popping up.
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6228181
03/18/16 04:49 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 802
Run-N-Gun Adventures
Tracker
|
Tracker
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 802 |
Planting sunflowers in May for dove Millet gets planted July-Aug when Mother Nature allows
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: Greekangler]
#6228257
03/18/16 05:59 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 11,788
wal1809
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 11,788 |
Millet to supplement moist soil- way too early for Millet in N TX- first week August for me and the following 3-4 weeks First we have to drain it off. The $%^&*()@# beavers built a 5 foot deep 8 foot wide and 10 foot mound of sticks and clay mud on top of the drain hole. Once we drain it and let it dry out a bit we are going to doze out a lot of the Rush plants. Late summer we will get back in there and plant.
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6228325
03/18/16 07:01 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,177
sallysue
Veteran Tracker
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,177 |
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: wal1809]
#6228957
03/19/16 03:52 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 732
muddyz
Tracker
|
Tracker
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 732 |
On my duck place I'm thinking I won't drain it until a couple weeks before I plant my millet. I know Cappy always drained his now, any reason not to wait and keep the moisture in the soil until July and then drain and plant in August?
Side note, does anyone plant rice in N TX?
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: Mike Honcho]
#6229020
03/19/16 06:24 AM
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 5,711
STXHO
OP
THF Trophy Hunter
|
OP
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 5,711 |
I think we are doing 10-20 ac at our place. What seed did ya order and from where haiden. To be honest Jorge one of my farmers orders it and I pay the bill. I know it's a contract seed. I will find out what brand for you. I'm doing 80 acres worth of seed. It's going to be in strips on 10 different fields.
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: muddyz]
#6229544
03/19/16 10:40 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 447
woodduckhunter
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 447 |
On my duck place I'm thinking I won't drain it until a couple weeks before I plant my millet. I know Cappy always drained his now, any reason not to wait and keep the moisture in the soil until July and then drain and plant in August?
Side note, does anyone plant rice in N TX?
You could drain now and possibly get the correct moist plants going with some ground disturbance. But, I've been able to get more ducks into planted millet than moist soil. So I kinda gave up on that. Your drawdown plan to maintain moisture for the millet is good, but a downfall from this is that undesired plants like reeds, cattails, and rushes can take over. Other than keeping a handle on them with some spray, it works out quite well. I don't know of anyone planting it for harvest or hunting in NTX. But, there are a couple crawfish farms that plant it for forage. It grows from the coast into Missouri....its even grown on the sides of mountains in Asia lol. Depending on the soil in the particular area, don't see why it wouldn't grow there. It can be broadcasted on mud flats as well with decent results. But, if you really want to get good yields(6000+ lbs/acre) it cost upwards of two hundred a acre to keep.(fertilize, seed, LOTS of nitrogen, weed control spray, maybe insecticide, and water) Commercial operations planting to harvest for profit spend well beyond that. It helps if you can put water on and take it off when needed as well. Rice will grow and produce with adequate rainfall just like anything else, maintaining a flood is primarily for weed control.
Last edited by woodduckhunter; 03/20/16 12:11 AM.
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6241860
03/30/16 07:34 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 5,594
Featherduster
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 5,594 |
Planting rice in Eagle Lake on Friday and a couple hundred acres of beans on my farm in May.
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: woodduckhunter]
#6241935
03/30/16 08:42 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 732
muddyz
Tracker
|
Tracker
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 732 |
On my duck place I'm thinking I won't drain it until a couple weeks before I plant my millet. I know Cappy always drained his now, any reason not to wait and keep the moisture in the soil until July and then drain and plant in August?
Side note, does anyone plant rice in N TX?
You could drain now and possibly get the correct moist plants going with some ground disturbance. But, I've been able to get more ducks into planted millet than moist soil. So I kinda gave up on that. Your drawdown plan to maintain moisture for the millet is good, but a downfall from this is that undesired plants like reeds, cattails, and rushes can take over. Other than keeping a handle on them with some spray, it works out quite well. I don't know of anyone planting it for harvest or hunting in NTX. But, there are a couple crawfish farms that plant it for forage. It grows from the coast into Missouri....its even grown on the sides of mountains in Asia lol. Depending on the soil in the particular area, don't see why it wouldn't grow there. It can be broadcasted on mud flats as well with decent results. But, if you really want to get good yields(6000+ lbs/acre) it cost upwards of two hundred a acre to keep.(fertilize, seed, LOTS of nitrogen, weed control spray, maybe insecticide, and water) Commercial operations planting to harvest for profit spend well beyond that. It helps if you can put water on and take it off when needed as well. Rice will grow and produce with adequate rainfall just like anything else, maintaining a flood is primarily for weed control. I have multiple bodies of water so I was really thinking about the rice and millet in two different spots. However it probably makes more sense to try some dwarf corn for the later season (higher water level areas) and go with the millet for earlier on. I've decided to keep as much water on there as possible and if necessary I can always spray it when I drain. Then two weeks later hit it with the disc and start planting the millet.
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6242252
03/31/16 12:23 AM
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 447
woodduckhunter
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 447 |
feather, is the rice youre planting strictly for ducks or normal ag planting for an august cutting? and from the way your situation sounds muddyz with the water and what not, I would probably go with your idea. It is by far the best in terms of good water use with what little there is to work with
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: STXHO]
#6242391
03/31/16 02:02 AM
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,874
brazosboyt
Pro Tracker
|
Pro Tracker
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,874 |
Picked up two new farms recently and just got done. 1 required breaking fields, and dragging them. Got this field in giant sunflowers. And this one in sorghum and pearl millet The other one got this fiend in sunflower And this one in sorghum. Moving dozers in on both and building controllable wetlands. This year will likely get drilled with jap millet but next year will be corn,milo,and native draw down plants.
Last edited by brazosboyt; 03/31/16 02:04 AM.
|
|
|
Re: Who's Planting?
[Re: woodduckhunter]
#6257983
04/13/16 01:38 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 5,594
Featherduster
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 5,594 |
feather, is the rice youre planting strictly for ducks or normal ag planting for an august cutting? Normal ag. Farming for grain
|
|
|
Moderated by bigbob_ftw, CCBIRDDOGMAN, Chickenman, Derek, DeRico, Duck_Hunter, hetman, jeh7mmmag, JustWingem, kmon11, kry226, kwrhuntinglab, Payne, pertnear, rifleman, sig226fan (Rguns.com), Superduty, TreeBass, txcornhusker
|