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megalomaniac

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Can't believe this happened. Lessee put in cover crop seed 3w ago into bone dry powder soil. Half in rain on it in 3 weeks.

2 different farms, 100ac of triticale and winter peas on one farm, 60ac on another. Deer are everywhere on it. The 60a farm still has 3000lbs or so of quartered broken ears of corn on it that haven't gone bad. Hilarious to watch the deer pick up a quarter ear, roll it around for a minute, then spit out the empty cob.
 

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Speculation but looks to be awesome soil!
And possibly a water table that's a blessing!
Those hills suggest maybe he got some good fog and heavy dews.
My SIL has a beautiful plot of turnips, radishes rye and wheat and the only explanation we have is his location affords him heavy dew and random fogs.
 
Popcorn said:
Speculation but looks to be awesome soil!
And possibly a water table that's a blessing!
Those hills suggest maybe he got some good fog and heavy dews.
My SIL has a beautiful plot of turnips, radishes rye and wheat and the only explanation we have is his location affords him heavy dew and random fogs.
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May be the fog... one of these farms is nearly impossible to hunt some mornings. My son went over there Saturday and had 75y viz for the first couple hours. Water table is NOT high here. Noone around us can get a well. We got lucky and hit water WAY down on our 3rd attempt.
 
megalomaniac said:
May be the fog... one of these farms is nearly impossible to hunt some mornings. My son went over there Saturday and had 75y viz for the first couple hours. Water table is NOT high here. Noone around us can get a well. We got lucky and hit water WAY down on our 3rd attempt.
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The heavy fog was the only thing that helped ours survive until we got a good rain. It was DRY! But fairly wet in the mornings just from fog alone
 
Looking promising. Mine have taken off in the last 3 weeks. they were dusty dry but after the first rain and few other 1/2"s here and there they have come on good. I had never though about the fog but that makes sense and Im sure im getting some of that too.
 
Surely it has been the heavy fogs and dews that have saved my plots from failure. We've had very little rain over the last two months but it rained steady last night. If we get another rain within a week or 10 days I'll quit worrying about my plots.
 
we are in that strip running from pulaski to cookeville where it rained like crazy to the NW and SE. But we only got 0.25in from the front yesterday/ last night. So frustrating.
 

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