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BR549 wrote:

redspeckable wrote:Plant Milo/Sorghum. Broadcast at 20-25lbs/acre. About 3 weeks before season start bushogging and discing strips throughout the field every 5-7 days. Total cost: 8 bags of milo @ about $20/bag and diesel fuel for tractor.

plus the 60 dollar or so fertilizer cost per acre to raise it! Cheapest way out is to have a clean field and scatter wheat about 3 weeks ahead of season and hope it don't rain on it. You only suppose to put it out once legaly but as everyone well know most do more than that. Most any other type of grown crop the cost of fertilizer is goning to drive the cost up till it's pretty expensive. Milo and or millett both need about 60 units of Nitrogen to produce. At 300 bucks a ton for fertilizer that can get expensive in a hurry!

I will buy all of the urea that you will sell me for $300 a ton. Check your price on this again. Urea is $850/ton as of this week.

duckchur1 wrote:

BR549 wrote:

redspeckable wrote:Plant Milo/Sorghum. Broadcast at 20-25lbs/acre. About 3 weeks before season start bushogging and discing strips throughout the field every 5-7 days. Total cost: 8 bags of milo @ about $20/bag and diesel fuel for tractor.

plus the 60 dollar or so fertilizer cost per acre to raise it! Cheapest way out is to have a clean field and scatter wheat about 3 weeks ahead of season and hope it don't rain on it. You only suppose to put it out once legaly but as everyone well know most do more than that. Most any other type of grown crop the cost of fertilizer is goning to drive the cost up till it's pretty expensive. Milo and or millett both need about 60 units of Nitrogen to produce. At 300 bucks a ton for fertilizer that can get expensive in a hurry!

I will buy all of the urea that you will sell me for $300 a ton. Check your price on this again. Urea is $850/ton as of this week.

Yea hit wrong button! That was suppose to have said 800 my bad

Hybrid Biscuit wrote:no such thing as a cheap field... just cheap friends....

+1
Are you hunting this all by your self? If so 15 acres is a good amount of area to scatter the doves once they have been shot at. I would disk smaller strips in areas doves might be more naturally attracted to, like power lines or trees in the middle of the fields. If you plant a 15 acre field in sunflowers, milo, sorghum whatever, once you shoot enough from one side there simply just going to avoid that area like anything else would. If theres going to be more than just one person hunting the field, get some help paying for it or get new friends.

Most folks don't realize what a legit dove field costs to make.

Yeah I had no idea it would cost that much. I would hunt it alone on occasion but 5 people tops. I think Im gonna try like a five acre field. Thanks for the help.

Plant 5, let 5 grow up and bushhog it before season and keep 5 disked clean all summer. Never underestimate the power of clean dirt.

Wingman wrote: Never underestimate the power of clean dirt.

This!!!