RE: How successful will I be?
Lunchbucket,
Right now, out of the 5 7/8 acres, I have 3, 1/4 acre harvest plots to frost seed with clover, 1, 1/4 acre new plot to actually plant in clover, after 1 more application of herbacide, and the rest, except for the corn area, will be frost seeded in clover to build up fall clover/combo plantings. 1/2 of those areas will be maintained as clover until fall of 2005, and the other 1/2 will be round-uped and replanted in a fall attractant/clover combo.
I wouldn't mind trying something, especially on the 1/4 acre harvest plots, or the new clover field. That would be nice if I could get some seed from you to plant on those areas...I would greatly appreciate it. I think last time we talked my plantings were already completed for the fall.
The power-plant might be a real interesting planting on the harvest plots, and if the forage was still great into hunting season, I'd keep it, and if not, I'd till it under and plant a cereal grain/clover combo.
I've just always wanted a late season forage that could compete with the snow depths and be availabe for migrating deer. Other than the cereal grains, which worked O.K., with the Buck Forage Oats being the best so far, nothing else has really worked that well into early November, and later. An acre of corn would be awesome, but if I could plant something else and not lose the acre for clover production during the summer, that would be great!