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    Nice deer, well unbelievable deer!
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    Beautiful.

    Mine has started flowering and completely canopied. Forgot to take a picture before the storms arrived.

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    I would really be interested in a per acre cost to plant. Also looking forward to how well the doves like/use it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thunderchicken View Post
    I would really be interested in a per acre cost to plant. Also looking forward to how well the doves like/use it.
    Probably $200 an acre? The biggest expense by far was the fertilizer. Dual Magnum is cheap. The glyphosate is expensive this year but is usually cheap. The seed was $110 for a 50 lb bag.

    On a “normal” year I bet you could get by with $150 an acre max.

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    I can see why one guy said to plant every other row. That’ll be about like hunting next to soybean field trying to find birds.
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    There is going to be a lot of food in this field. It’s about 5 feet tall now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckin Bronco View Post
    I can see why one guy said to plant every other row. That’ll be about like hunting next to soybean field trying to find birds.
    Shouldn't be too bad. It makes for good hunter cover though. The stalks should be dead and leaf cover gone or light by late season, which is when this stuff shines.
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    Leave 3 rows standing for blind positions. Make sure folks don't shoot the low birds that are going to dive bomb your benne. Yall should have a great shoot over that stuff. Looks great. Congrats!!
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    I'm really looking forward to your bird reports this season because I have considered planting benne. I've bookmarked this thread for reference next planting season. I appreciate you posting the planting details.

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    A lot of people I've seen plant benne and sunflowers in sections. Shoot over sunflowers the first split and gradually cut em. By the second or third split, the benne is king. They leave bands a few yards wide.
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    Will pigs leave benne alone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SC quacker2 View Post
    Will pigs leave benne alone?
    negative
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    pigs wont leave a dead deer carcasses ass alone....
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    How about deer...? Will they eat benne

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    My experience has been deer leave it alone until well after the seed matured. Then they will eat the leaves.


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    Quote Originally Posted by YoungBuckTX View Post
    How about deer...? Will they eat benne
    They would’ve eaten the hell out the crop in this thread if so.


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    It’s defoliated for the most part and the pods are drying down. Today was day 85 since planting. No doves yet, but there are starting to be some at the neighbor’s sunflowers.

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    I thought most people let it mature naturally...
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    It did this to itself - it defoliates naturally.

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