Eastwoods, don't think for a minute that corn is protected from black birds until you cut it down. Those bastards will peel the husk back just as efficiently as a mallard, and clean a field out before you can flood it for the ducks! Wing Man, I am sold on sunflowers.....early and late. I planted my ...

I disked an area down to bare dirt about 1/4 mile from my sunflowers last year & flooded it, and it worked like a charm. The interesting thing was seeing the number of birds coming from the water hole to the sunflowers. Apparently they like to water before feeding. I'd say that it is well worth ...

After reading this thread, I was getting close to needing fuel, so I went ahead & ordered 2,350 gals & paid $2.17 for off road. Ouch !! Last fall I paid $1.85 & thought I was crazy for ordering bulk at those prices, but my supplier confirmed what y'all been saying here......it's still go...

I saw a flight of 8 two weeks ago west of Valley Park

Meeka, if you were fortunate enough to spend any time in the DNF around 1993 - 1994 you would have seen beaver dams that literally ran for miles and weren't more than 18" tall in most places. The dams in the main bayous & sloughs were sometimes 8 - 10 feet tall and eventually took bulldozers to ...

What would the DNF look like today if Larry Moore & his people had not aggressively gone after the beavers in 1995? That 12,000 acres of flooded timber would be 12,00 acres of dead timber today. Would that be better habitat for anybody? It would certainly be "natural", but I don't believe it wou...

bwm, What you are doing is measuring the time it takes to travel the length of one acre. Thus, you'd measure off 209 feet & measure the time it takes to travel it in your tractor (i.e., what gear are you going to run in). Then you should collect the spray from one nozzle for that length of time,...

FARMDUX, I've had a 4x4 Ranger for 2 hunting seasons now & have put some 200 hours on it & it is one bad machine. It's best attribute is it's ability to carry unbelievable amounts of stuff. I have only gotten it stuck one time & that was in ruts that would high center any atv. It goes as...

Hey MSB, that was a great story about Jr. Broker. Isn't it great to have stories like that that you will never live down. Y'all will get to laugh at that story over & over again as the years go by. I too have one that I'll never live down....& I love it. Several years back, I took two good b...

Another factor that y'all really have not mentioned is the shift in agricultural procedures in the Mississippi Delta these days. The new varieties of soybeans and corn are allowing earlier harvests than ever before. This year I saw the first combines starting in late July. By late October all of the...