Is it still legal to use a wood chipper to scatter sunflower seeds onto a plowed strip in a field? If so anyone have success with this?
Is it still legal to use a wood chipper to scatter sunflower seeds onto a plowed strip in a field? If so anyone have success with this?
I've done it with cob corn and it makes grits. I wanted it a bit more coarsely ground. The birds found it and liked it but it doesn't last as long as whole kernel.
One of my buddies is in a dove club that has hardware cloth tables in the field on which they throw the sunflower heads if they fall down. The seeds fall out naturally and the birds feed under the tables.
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I remember once when I was a kid, we took the dove field corn stalks and fed them into the bush hog blade nut access hole it would spread the corn pretty good.
I use a chipper along side my corn. On clean, harrowed and raked soil. I don't (grind) sunflowers they fall on the ground on their own.
The chipper sit on the tailgate of the truck. We pick the ears and feed them into the chipper as the truck moves alongside the corn. In my fieldd, 12 acres. I plant corn/sunflowers/prozo and brown top millet. I leave 20 feet wide strips between each planting that I keep clean by harrowing. I rake it smooth by the corn to allow the corn from the chipper to lay on smooth dirt. Also 10-1 I broadcast wheat on these strips. The standing corn stalks makes a good hiding area to hide when shooting.
Last edited by Model12; 07-31-2019 at 10:01 PM.
More radom pics. I have 6 members that pay the $$$$. I furnish land and labor. This field is in front of my house........Monitor from the porch.
Is chipping seed a bonafide agricultural practice?
I've typically just disced up next to each strip we plan on cutting, two to three a week during the late seasons.. Then drop the bushhog as low as I can get it without kicking up dirt and creep over the corn.
So snapping corn into a grain wagon that never leaves the field, then getting it out the wagon and blowing it out with the chipper can’t be done?
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