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  1. MarkDarvin

    Dough stage crimping

    You can crimp it anytime after the flag leaf emerges. That can be kind of tricky to ID, but it’s possible. To get the most out of your rye, let it go to when you see the pollen dangling from the seed heads. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  2. MarkDarvin

    The Massey

    Especially if you got some rain recently. They're already in central MO. https://www.thegreatmorel.com/morel-sightings/
  3. MarkDarvin

    The Massey

    Looks like dutch elm disease made it to your place. I wouldn't panic over it. We've had dutch elm disease in MN for decades, and we've still got plenty of elms. One thing that makes elm a great tree is they readily sprout up from seed. Be glad you've got some dying. Those with bark just...
  4. MarkDarvin

    PH effect on Palatability of clover/chicory plot

    As long as you’re close, shouldn’t affect much. If you wanna give it a little flavor boost, throw about 200 lbs/ac gypsum on there once a year. Sulfate is the flavor and protein formation nutrient. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    7.8 ph. Should I try to adjust it?

    Are you missing topsoil? That could be a culprit too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    2024 tree and shrub planting

    A fist full or two (one pound per 4' square) of Waukesha lime from the Tractor Supply scattered around each tree would go a long way to get you into the strike zone. Should be able to find it at any Tractor Supply you pass on your way up there. That kind is good for sandy soil. I like the...
  7. MarkDarvin

    Building Organic Matter

    If you've already removed the brush above ground that will wreck equipment, I'd flip to a perennial blend now. If you're trying to break a compaction problem, you should try to avoid a fallow period. A fall cocktail of rye, white clover, chicory, plantain, and flax should do you pretty well...
  8. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    I think we've gotten to the bottom of this one. It frustrates me that CWD gets so much attention and causes so many landowners problems when the eradicators show up. There are real problems out there, but so many of them are off limits to scientific analysis for obvious political reasons. I...
  9. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    We probably are talking past one another. It's important to understand that I'm not operating on belief or faith. I'm looking at what we do know, and we cannot discount that for theories on what we don't know. Herds are not collapsing. No containment measure has shown ability to reverse...
  10. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    Is there evidence that anything that has been done has been effective in stopping the disease? Is there evidence that CWD has caused even a small herd collapse anywhere? Is there evidence CWD can cross over to humans? Read a thousand studies on CWD, none of them can answer those three...
  11. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    If that’s your side of the argument, you need to post it. There is nothing out there to prop up any of the fear that’s being spread. I’ve read about the studies where science shot the brains of mice and monkeys full of prions and then found prions where they put them. “We put prions there, and...
  12. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    I’m hopeful this is nothing but a bunch of leeches in the science for sale business trying to keep their pockets full, and not some nefarious next problem to suddenly burst onto the scene like so many other things that just magically appear and generate lots of money for the contagion business...
  13. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    Nobody can cite a scientific publication because there aren’t any. Nothing being written about CWD would ever be accepted and published by a scientific journal because there is no science to review and it would never pass the standards for publishing. The ‘they’ is whoever the media decides to...
  14. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    Fair enough. Imagine for a moment the deer start dying en masse, and humans break out with CJD en masse. If any of the things come true that they are theorizing, the pace at which we're learning about CWD, we're all goners. 90% of the grocery store products, and 99% of the convenience store...
  15. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    If there appears to be no timeline that will ever produce an outcome that will give us clarity as to whether this ever worked or if CWD is even a threat to deer or humans, how many more years do we need to keep culling? Do we have to cull for another 50 or 100 years only to look back and be...
  16. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    I’m not saying you did. I was just asking if you thought decades of culling was enough data to merit a review of the tactic by now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  17. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    You suppose we've got enough data after decades of aggressive culling to review whether aggressive culling is an effective means of stopping CWD? I also think it's time we review deer populations and human CJD incidence in areas that have had CWD for 40+ years. Maybe we might learn that the...
  18. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    Science requires no faith, only proof and replication. There are no results, no proof, not even consistency in theories. Therefore it is not science and never was. It's just a story to push an agenda. It should be especially worrisome that the zombie deer stories are back in the mainstream...
  19. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    None of that is science. This very first sentence of belief in whatever is said is somehow gold despite it producing no useful course of action to change the trajectory of a disease that 99.9% of deer of whom test positive show no outward signs of having this always fatal disease. Has any...
  20. MarkDarvin

    Missouri Dept of Conservation ''Targeted Kills'' in CWD ''Hot Zones''

    If it means the difference between having deer and not, I would absolutely go this route with zero regard for CWD. There is no science with CWD. It's only theories and propaganda. I've read articles that say CWD cannot degrade in soil, yet CWD has low to no prevalence outside of row crop...
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