Join us for a July 1st tour of our small but highly management dove field. We have corn, sunflowers and millet all going to seed and blooming! Come along and let me know your thoughts. The videos are worth the price of admission. Enjoy!
Looking great, love the update videos and monitoring your progress. Anyone who has attempted their own dove field knows just how difficult it is and the numerous factors that can impact success or failure any given season. I’d argue the process and getting results is just as enjoyable as the opening day shoot. Really enjoy following along, thanks for the videos!
Comments like these are why I do it! I really enjoy the process and enjoy updating/educating people. You are correct, this is not easy and it certainly does not happen by accident. Lot of planing, implementation and adaptation!
What you have it looking good even with the challenges you faced this year. I'm happy to see you have a nice stand of sunflowers. The corn look great. I hope it dries out in time for the season and I imagine it will. I think I got a little micro shower over the field this evening. Radar return showed it green then yellow for about 35 minutes total. Maybe that is enough to water the plants some. I'll take what I can get. I don't think my brown top will make out by opening day. Sometimes it grows fast and sometimes it doesn't. Biggest factor is rain of course. So I'm still praying for more. It is really tuff in the sandy soil as you know it doesn't hold the moisture like a clay or even a loam soil does.
Drought has been rough!!!! We got a rain a week ago and that helped tremendously. We have a lot of 36in plants and some 48’s. Every year is a new challenge.
Hey brother I need your help. I planted my brown top millet a few weeks late and then we had no rain. It's now 7/7 and it just sprouted. What's your thoughts. I'm here just south of Raleigh NC
Man... yea you are late to get the maturity and drying you need for the opener. Then again, you might be surprised. I have seed heads at 40-45 days on some brown top, so you never know! You can always disc it all up the week before and spread wheat 100lbs to the acre.
@@Yellowlab247_NC_Outdoors keeping my fingers crossed here. I have more millet seed I can broadcast too if needed. Love your content and greatly appreciate you responding!
So smaller sunflower blooms will not produce seed at all? This is my first year planting a dove field and I have some plants that are stunted. Do you think they will produce any seeds?
They will continue to scale down their seed size to almost nothing. The little 1-2" heads will have little micro seeds. I will try to show and address this in the next update!
