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    What's the turn around time on soil samples usually?
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    We started a couple weeks back

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    Quote Originally Posted by willk View Post
    What's the turn around time on soil samples usually?
    It's not long. Week or so from what I remember. They email you the results.

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    Quote Originally Posted by willk View Post
    What's the turn around time on soil samples usually?
    It varies depending on the work load the lab is getting.

    When I dropped mine off she said they are currently at 10-12 day turnaround.

    I've gotten them back as quickly as 3 days and as long as 3 weeks.

    Typically January is the quickest turnaround and March-early April is the longest.

    uga_dawg is correct in that they email the results/recommendations to you.

    Not bad at all for $6/sample.
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    What size field is that HS?

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    Nice JReb


    40ish, in the fence 16ish, there are things planted outside of it though

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    My fields are pure mud, I hope I can get in to plant this spring

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    My place is drying out a little bit. This past weekend I burned the pasture I intend to convert into a dove field this year. I've got a lot of discing ahead in the next few weekends. The 10 day forecast has a lot of rainy days in it.

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    Highstrung, you don’t happen to have a pic of your fence setup down to ground level do you?

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    I did but I don't have them on my phone now.. I'll take some pics the next time I'm down there.

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    Thanks, I appreciate it. I see you have the 2 wires on the inner Tpost and at a ribbon/tape wire on the outer post, is there more to it that what is shown?

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    Back line has two strands, front line has the ribbon. They're spaced about three feet from front line to back. The tallest wire on the back line can catch me right on the crotch, I cut the dern thing off before chancing it now. The ribbon is about two and a half feet off the ground, The staggering throws them off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cat III View Post
    My fields are pure mud, I hope I can get in to plant this spring

    Same here where ours is. WAY too wet right now.

    We need to do some bush hogging but too wet for that

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    its getting to be an issue...
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    What is the best process to convert a long established hay field to dove fields? Old timer told me how, want to double check with more modern ag practices that don't involve no till.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bad Habit View Post
    What is the best process to convert a long established hay field to dove fields? Old timer told me how, want to double check with more modern ag practices that don't involve no till.
    I'm in the process now. I converted a couple of small hay fields last year and planted sunflowers. They did great, discounting the deer damage. I burned them, disced them a few times, did soil tests, fertilized, sprayed them with pre-emergent, planted and sprayed with cadre once the sunflowers were up. I'm planning on running over those fields and a bigger one I'm converting this year with a subsoiler. I'm very curious to see if there will be a difference after subsoiling. My fields haven't been tilled for many years and I suspect they have a pretty compacted subsoil layer.

    What do you dislike about no-till? From what I gather, it may be smarter since you don't disturb the soil as much and don't incite the latent seed bank from sprouting. Some weeds just love disturbed soil. That's a rhetorical question because I'm new to this stuff too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bad Habit View Post
    What is the best process to convert a long established hay field to dove fields? Old timer told me how, want to double check with more modern ag practices that don't involve no till.
    We planted browntop and use it for hay and the seed would scatter and we killed a shit ton of doves. You get the best of both. Just saying.
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    don't like the expense of no till equipment for a small place- I currently have 43 arces and 35 are wooded. My 8 acres were in hay fenced for horses for years. Going to row it, bed it and plant rows of corn soybeans and sunflowers both for the doves and the deer. I have a 2 row planter that I got from duck cutter.

    So far I have cut it short at the end of last growing season, sprayed it with round up, cross disced it, next is bottom plow to turn all the plant matter under, then the rest follows. Going to use round up resistant seed for all 3 crops.

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    Sunflowers and corn, late season birds like corn. I don't care what anyone says

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