Recent content by Dakota Plainsman

I'm in south central SD and am too really considering trying some. What little info I can find on the net is planting depth is 1/2 inch. We normally plant wheat at 1-2 inches. There is a lot of winter triticale planted in this part of the country and was wondering if this wheat is sort of the...

My dad allways said that the best way to shorten up winter and spring to come fast is to have some big bank notes to come due the first of may. Seems like it allways comes faster than you would like in that case.

Justin, what is the reason for not putting bentonite under the concrete? The first tire tanks I put in about 7 or 8 years ago, my well man helped me, a 13 footer a water line person put in, and two I put in myself all have bentonite under the concrete. We all put bentonite down then about 2...

That sorgum looks like that it is the same as I call grain sorgum or milo in this erea. I have backgrounded calves feeding milo and seems to work well if it is good quality. Light test weight milo/grain sorgum sometimes doesn't have good feed value. It does have to be ground or cracked and...

Was reading some of the posts and sounds like everyone is started to put up hay. Learned this morning that a young 19 year old man was killed in a baler accident last night. Just graduated from high school 1 year ago this spring, bought some equipment, and started a custom haying business. He...

When you spray with roundup, The plant leaves start turning yellow when it first start to die. Our wheat grass does kinda the same thing with the bugs in it.

If they are the same as we call black bugs, they are mostly in crested wheat grass in this country. Sure makes you think that it has been sprayed with roundup. We used to spray them with furadan (spelling), but that is pretty wicked stuff. Have seed liquid 7 and melathion used and does a...

I had no idea rattlers are protected anywhere. I'm in southern South Dakota. Wonder what the reason for protecting them.

Killed my first rattlesnake of the season checking pairs yesterday. Spring must be getting closer since it is still March. Everyone pay attention and be careful if you are in snake country. Don't want to hear of anyone or any baby calves getting bit.

Your lucky you have sand. There is no way I could pull a feeder like that here. I'm having trouble just pulling a 2 bale processor with a MFD tractor. About 2-3 trips and is like soup. The water just don't soak away in this hard ground. Just gets softer and softer.

I've tried about all the different tags, y-tex, all flex, z tag, brisket tags but still like the grindable richie tags best. The other tags the #s seem to fade till they were not readable. Been using the black y-tex buttons. but loose quite a few. If I find a tag, the button was broke. Last...

I have never used one but sure would like to have one. Kramer Mfg., from Ainsworth NE makes a really nice one I think. So does Vermeer. I have had some people say that certain kinds will have trouble backing under the piles in the field if you line them up out there instead of bringing clear...

Lived by him for a while. Remarks like that might be why he didn't live around here very long. Did you know he used to raise registered angus and limousine bulls.

The old rule of thumb in my country was calves should eat 3% of their body weight per day with 1% of that being grain. 500 pound calf, 5 pounds grain. Should gain close to 1 3/4 lbs/day if the rations is balanced. Simm x can stand more grain than that. On angus/herford cross, gaining much...