Planting Wheat

[RobJ]

WOW excellant camera work there man. Looks like a long lense or you were just plain close

Here is my latest food plot. You can sort of see the outer ring that was planted 2 weeks ago. Just hand tossed rye, then drug. Got about 1.5" of rain a couple days after. I put some fertilizer on this past weekend.

Eddie, For your plots you might try some whole oats. Last time I bought they were about $8 a 50# bag. Ask for whole oats instead of seed oats. Those cost more. But most all of the whole oats will still germinate. The rye I tried this year was about $20 for 50#if I recall.

 

[andrewj]

I think there is as much difference in farming as building I guess.

The local people tell me I don't need to fertilize. ... if I put 400lbs per acre of fertilizer out there and 200lbs per acre of seed... This is more of a test to see if I can even get something to grow and to keep the weeds from taking over.

Thanks, Nathan

soil sample is 7 dollars. there is no cheaper "test" to see if you can grow something.

 

[N80]

I've got to do that next year. Two of my little oat plots have gone belly up but one of them is still good and green. I suspect it is a pH thing. Plan on doing several locations. Knowing how much lime to put down is probably the issue for me. Seen some bucks in my little plots but nothing worth shooting. My place is paved with white oak acorns this year so the plots probably aren't drawing as well as in lean years.

 

[RobJ]

I've got to do that next year. Two of my little oat plots have gone belly up but one of them is still good and green. I suspect it is a pH thing. Plan on doing several locations. Knowing how much lime to put down is probably the issue for me. Seen some bucks in my little plots but nothing worth shooting. My place is paved with white oak acorns this year so the plots probably aren't drawing as well as in lean years.

Down here if you got white oaks in a draw you hunt there. They love those big fat acorns! I guess they know it's less work than a little pin oak.

 

[flusher]

I have a 2 row planter and a 8' disc, shredder, blade and subsoiler for implements now.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

Thanks, Nathan

Notice that you pull an 8' tandem disc with your Bota 4200.
Evidently your 4200 has no problem pulling that disc.
Is your disc a 3-pt implement or a drag disc? New or pre-owned? Manufacturer?

I have a 1966 MF-135 diesel that I'm restoring and it has about the same engine and pto hp specs as your tractor. I'm trying to decide what kind of disc to get to put in about 7 acres of hay.

 

[HomeBrew2]

... 7 acres of hay.

Oh, oh, that sounds like work

 

[npaden]

It's a 3 point disc. It was setup as a Category II hitch but they switched it to Category I for me. No idea what brand, I bought it for $600 used from a used equipment dealer.

The tractor knows it's back there when it is digging in good. I was using 6th gear for a while but when it was really digging in good it started knocking so I went down to 5th and even in 5th it knocked a few times.

From what I understand a 42hp 4wd tractor will outpull a 42hp 2wd tractor but I'm not sure on that. I'm not getting very much wheel slippage but that could be your limiting factor pulling this with a 2wd.

 

[N80]

Down here if you got white oaks in a draw you hunt there. They love those big fat acorns! I guess they know it's less work than a little pin oak.

They do attract well but there are so many this year they can go anywhere to get them. In years past, if the acorn crop was bad but you could find one white oak with acorns, it was better than a feeder (which is illegal in my part of the state).

We got pigs on my place now. Fat and black but probably competeing with the deer and turkey. Shooting them hasn't decreased the population at all. There are more every year. I haven't shot one this year but I watched a drove of 10 the other afternoon for over an hour; eating acrons the whole time. None of them over 150 pounds. Probably good eaters but I was waiting for a big buck. Killed a decent 8 pointer in the same place about a week before. He was fighting a bigger buck that I never got a good look at. Was hoping to see the big one, but never did. Just noisy pigs.

npaden,

That's a nice little disk for a good price. Box tubing rather than angle iron is nice. It doesn't look like you can change the angle of the disk arms, but that probably is no big deal. No idea at all who makes it? I'd love to find a set like that for that price.

As to the OP, I scraped up a small area and planted some wheat and it came up nice and green but hasn't gotten very tall, maybe 8 inches. The deer haven't touched it at all, but they've eaten the oats almost to the ground. I don't know if it will ever come to seed, but maybe they'll like it better then. Surely the turkeys will.

 

[flusher]

It's a 3 point disc. It was setup as a Category II hitch but they switched it to Category I for me. No idea what brand, I bought it for $600 used from a used equipment dealer.

The tractor knows it's back there when it is digging in good. I was using 6th gear for a while but when it was really digging in good it started knocking so I went down to 5th and even in 5th it knocked a few times.

From what I understand a 42hp 4wd tractor will outpull a 42hp 2wd tractor but I'm not sure on that. I'm not getting very much wheel slippage but that could be your limiting factor pulling this with a 2wd.

Thanks for the info. My 135 is 2wd, of course, and the rears are pretty worn. Makes me lean toward a 7-ft tandem disc or even a 6-footer. My wheel track is 82" wide. I may go with a 3-pt 6-ft disc and add a hitch to convert it to a drag disc. Then I can use a 3-pt drawbar and offset the hitch point by 12 inches to cover one of the wheel tracks.

 

[npaden]

WOW excellant camera work there man. Looks like a long lens or you were just plain close.

Thanks. I was about 150 yards away in both of those pictures. Using a 70-300mm lens on the camera zoomed all the way.

The pictures turned out a little better when it was actually light outside!