Great video.

Ready for you to start posting this years progress.

Good stuff

What’s the chances of having a good plot without covering the seed and broadcasting before a big rain??

Same thing would happen if u were to plant turnips in May. They r a very wet rot. What I like is very little turnips cuz they want variety & turnips just take up too much room. The forage radishes seem to grow large but the plant tonnage is small so I plant just enough for variety. I pretty much focus on the kale, rutabaga, a hybrid brassica that handles pressure better than most & trophy rape. The trophy rape & kale give me about 75% of my tonnage. Deer have levels that need to be met. So if their meter on something like high RTV alfalfa is met that they will switch to woody browse. I would recommend stinging knettle plants for transition routes between a plot & bedding. They eat the tops off it as they move through. This isn't the prickly pear stuff, it looks like a hemp plant & they love travelimg through it & browsing. When the flies r pretty bad they hide deep into it All about habitat. I've had good 🍀 & bad 🍀 results. Kinda like people have with beans. The 2 seed mixes I planted last week here in central MN is Domain Big Sexy & Show Stopper. The stinging knettles I created by stacking small brush piles strategically in late Msrch or early April. It seems to grow there & connects them together by running an underground root system. I plant Buckwheat in late June. So when I plant my fall seed I just broadcast the seed while it standing when the weather is dry. Then I knockdown the Buckwheat over it. Really builds up my soil over the years & makes my ground much more fertile. Deer like variety so I try to mix things in there that makes sense. Good luck.😅

Great video!!! Thanks for sharing, I would definitely cut the oaks down and plant an apple and a chestnut

Thanks for doing this my friend!!

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That is a solid clay patch. I grew up on clay and have bad clay patches where I'm at now. Till it too wet and you get clods, too dry and the tractor can't pull the plow through. The only real solution is a good mix of cover crops that includes buckwheat, tillage radishes, and grain rye to rebuild the soil. Then don't plow. To unseat the existing grass you'll need to plow but keep it covered with what you want to grow after that. Save cover crop seed and replant because your survivor seed is adapted to the clay, store-bought seed is adapted to whatever and wherever they were sourced from which may have been sand and dry. Also, you can adapt the corn to growing without seed treatment and fertilizer using open pollinated heirloom seed. Seed treatment kills soil biology you are trying to improve.

I find that you have to work the fresh plowing down as soon as possible when dealing with clay soil with spring plowing. The soil north of Watertown is a lot like that. Fall plowing works better and let the winter freeze mellow it out. But then you’re food plot feed is under ground

Awesome video! Still amazed you grow corn with 1 bag of fertilizer. 150 bushel corn normally calls for 150lbs of nitrogen and you put 4.5lbs on yours

Planted my corn end of may here in New York, and zero rain for 30 days ,, , all burnt ,, disced and replanted with 90 day ,1st of July hoping it will take off

Next year order Blue Hopi and Jimmy Red corn seed (14% and 12% protein) and the deer will choose it over the 'crave' stuff. Then save the best ears to replant.

The clay clods are a calcium-to-magnesium ratio problem. A water-soluble soil test will come back, showing that there is a ?? 3.2 calcium to magnesium ratio when it should be 7:1. The pH can be neutral, but water-soluble calcium is deficient in most of the country. It will take 3 - 4 years to get the rates up but Increase this calcium, and your clay will become more mellow, and you will increase the release of the nutrients that locked up. It will also increase the brix in the plants.

Have you ever tried planting peanuts and if so how did that turn out for you?

Great video keep them coming. We'll not b long to Brassicas .How much r u do of Brassicas?

I don't think it is the shade that is causing your crops to be stunted, i think it is the tree roots that are pulling the ground moisture away to the tree and away from your crops, imo?