stubborn1VT

I saw 3 hens and 10 poults earlier this morning. They weren't very big yet. Very light rain now. Better than nothing.

I'm glad somebody is. The updated forecast is looking less and less rainy here. It went from a whole week of rain, to more "hit or miss" T-storms and scattered showers. Any rain is better than none, but it doesn't look like any soaking rain for us. The 2nd cut is going to be scarce. My soybeans and little corn plot could sure use the moisture. I guess there's no use complaining about it. I just wish the clowns from "cloud college" hadn't gotten my hopes up.

I'm tracking with all that. Thanks for providing the info. I'm hoping there is countless studies to show the unplanned side effects of spraying as much as we do in this day and age.

Something about her expression creeps me out worse than the spider.

We'll see what the long term effects and unintended consequences of thousands (millions?) of acres of Roundup ready crops are. I don't see how it can compare to the "damage" done by plowing. I grew up in hill country. If we were "killing the soil", then how did we grow corn, potatoes, sudan grass etc?

I agree that there are advantages to not-till. I get a kick out of the idea that plowing is horrible, but spraying with glyph is A-ok. I know there is no perfect solution, but the current no-till program in the U.S. will do much more harm than decades of mortar board plowing. Just my opinion.

I'm thinking it's a tiny spider hanging in front of your camera lens.

I hear this from people, and I have to question it. I mean, a plow rolls the sod over, it doesn't irradiate it. When we plow up old sod and plant corn it grows like crazy. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand how it can be so bad.

Plot looks fantastic Zeek. I'm jealous. Those bucks don't look half bad either. Like my brother says "They'll eat."

We have very few bears where I grew up. I went home Sunday and my mother was telling me she saw a small bear trying to chase deer last week. The deer were confused. Poor bugger must have been hungry.

Nice! The ever useful and versatile spring tooth harrow. Great for small plots, and adjustable to boot. Hope you get some good use out of it Moog.

Little known fact: the team that scores the most runs wins. An ERA of 2.00 won't do you any good if your team can't score 3 runs. It has nothing to do with the "good old days". I say wins aren't a good measure of a pitcher because it's a fact. It's a team sport. If you want to rate a pitcher look at HIS numbers: ERA, WHIP, and K/BB ratio come to mind.

Wins are a terrible measure of a pitcher. The 4 wins have more to do with the offense than Severino. Catch up!

Nice looking pics! Good to see the same bucks back again. Good luck to you and your old man.

I've heard that about Mainiacs. I don't mind a white perch caught through the ice, but they are no yellow perch. White perch aren't perch at all, but a member of the bass family. The only upside I found to white perch were the massive, aggressive schools that we fished in Northern Champlain. We caught hundreds of pounds of them one year through the ice. They were worth eating, but not as sweet as yellow perch.

I catch buckets of bluegills out of Champlain in the winter for our supply of fish. I like perch just fine, but I enjoy catching gills in shallow water vs chasing schools of perch around. I've gotten so good at filleting them that I can clean them faster than perch too. I won't turn down a yellow perch, but I love the way bluegill fillets cook up! I just got back from a week in western Quebec where I caught over 200 walleyes in 5 days. A 15-16" walleye is pretty awesome table fare too. I didn't catch any big 'eyes, and didn't bother with pictures, but it was a good place to be during the heat wave. Still hot up there, but at least I wasn't working!

My bow is always hung. With a firearm, I keep it across the arms of a ladder stand (basically in my lap). In a hang-on stand a rifle is hung. I might keep it in hand the last 10 minutes of shooting light.

Not so fast Biz! A Machado HR and a single of Bird's glove and the ORIOLES win!

That's one heck of a deal! The only downside of using N on clover plots is that the weeds like it. I may have to swing by Tractor Supply. That's crazy good.

That's the right idea. I wait until brassicas are up 4" before spreading urea. If you can get it on before a good rain ti will really make them take off.

x2 on the fatheads and crayfish. You gotta have a good forage base before anything else.

That's a pretty good shot of triple 15. I would really recommend the urea. If applied at the right time, it can be wicked effective.

In my experience, soybeans in a 30" row will "flex" and still cover the ground. As for pod yield, I have read that 15" rows are optimum. I have no idea if that is really true, since I have never grown them commercially. I have friends who do. They all have their own theories.

And now a New Holland is a Case, without the bells and whistles. I have run both. I have also run tractors and equipment from every manufacturer you listed.

Snell is nasty. Sox and Yanks play at least 3 more series though. Loooong ways to go.