Episode #75 - Concerned about cell cams, when should i plant, and purple headed freaks…

Published: 2021-07-26
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Duration: 63 min

In this episode

announcement

Don says he and Terry will tell listeners to watch their social media, where they’ll post Brian Rusk’s video. 3:28

apple-chart

Don and Terry plan to find and share the apple ripening/disease-resistance chart online for listeners in the coming week or two. 46:34

apple-trees

Terry recommends apple varieties Enterprise, Liberty, Freedom, and Arkansas Black for disease resistance. 44:10
Jacob Copaska asks whether different apple varieties cross-pollinate each other and whether apple trees will pollinate his pear trees. 40:57

buck-prediction

Terry predicts this fall does not look good for finding Giants, based on historically productive camera spots going quiet. 7:33

cedar-apple-rust

Terry warns that cedar apple rust fungus moves between cedar trees and apple trees, so growers should choose resistant apple varieties. 43:04

cell-camera

Don says he has a serious concern about the reliability of cell cameras this year. 7:51
Don has three expensive brands of cell cameras with two providers on his Illinois lease, yet still isn’t getting consistent pictures. 8:19
Don plans to place standard Reconyx 60 yards off the tree lines to test whether cell cameras are missing deer traffic. 8:52
Terry says his seven Reconyx cell cameras in Iowa have been very disappointing, with some never producing a single buck picture. 9:27
Don predicts he’ll be disappointed pulling the standard cameras on the Illinois lease Wednesday and plans to give a cell-camera update next week. 11:47
Don plans to run sanity checks on his cell cameras this week and over the next couple weeks by comparing them to standard cameras. 61:18
Don remains worried that even investing in good cell cameras still won’t be reliable enough to depend on. 61:30
Terry says his Exodus cell camera has impressed him and held its own against Reconyx. 62:14

crabapple

Terry recommends adding Dolgo and chestnut crabapple trees to an orchard since they load up with blooms and pollinate well. 44:38

drought

Don has seen reports of severe droughts causing row-crop farmers in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana to lose their entire harvest. 16:54

faith

Don states men have a responsibility to care for their families both spiritually and otherwise. 14:05

fall-food-plot

Terry recommends the I-70 corridor rule: plant fall plots around September 1 along Interstate 70, moving planting a week earlier for every 100 miles further north. 18:23

family

Don says his other son-in-law Corey is another really good man who takes care of the family. 13:59
Terry says he’s extremely blessed and doesn’t worry about his kids because both sons-in-law are high-quality men. 14:33

farm-management

Don explains his Kentucky farm’s dynamic changed this year after rotating alfalfa acreage back into tobacco. 5:54

firearms

Don says there’s no one he’d rather discuss firearms with than Corey, calling him a wealth of knowledge. 14:48

flooding

Terry describes a creek flood washing out part of his Real World Nutri-Crave Corn plot this year, requiring spraying, mowing and replanting. 22:06
For flooded plots with surviving green cover but no real yield, should growers keep the cover or terminate early to replant sooner? 21:43

food-plot

Brian Rusk produced a drone-footage video about Real World food-plot planting on his Wisconsin farm and shared it with Don and Terry. 2:24
Terry says he’s never seen a year where both the spring and fall food plots failed; usually one period is good. 24:46

iowa

Terry says he has yet to get a trail camera picture of a single buck over about 130 inches on public land in Iowa this year. 49:54

listener-questions

Don announces listeners who submit a question at chasinggiants.com that gets used on air will receive a free Chasing Giants T-shirt. 40:42

lone-wolf

Don plans to spend time on the manufacturing floor at Lone Wolf to see how machining and manufacturing is done. 39:45

no-till

Terry says some growers no-till drill directly into standing soybeans, tearing up plants but still getting away with it. 21:12

opinion

Terry says the US women’s soccer team’s Olympic loss was the best thing he saw this week because most of its players had kneeled during the anthem. 29:37
Terry calls the Cleveland Indians’ name change to the Guardians the worst thing he saw on the internet this week. 33:28

overseeding

When overseeded seed falls through a thick, humid soybean canopy, does it swell and crack but die from lack of light? 28:05

phone

What was going on with Terry’s phone this week? 15:05

podcast-growth

Don says the podcast has grown a lot since it started, bringing lots of listener support along with a few haters sending nasty messages. 1:24

public-land

Luke McCoy asks what compromises, if any, one should make on public land between good access and staying away from human intrusion. 47:39

reconyx

Terry relays that his friend Greg Mills was amazed how much better Reconyx performed than other brands and said he’ll never buy another brand. 10:33

Terry recounts a listener who angrily private-messaged him roughly 20 posts worth of complaints, though Terry never learned what upset the person. 1:50

soybean-plot

Don posted pictures of his Kentucky soybean plot, calling it one of the best spring plots he’s ever had. 16:38
When should someone mow off thin, heavily browsed soybeans near bedding and replant a fall blend instead of leaving them? 19:25

Terry says Jeff Weaver, Frank Archey, Caden and the Lone Wolf team have been great sponsors and good to them. 39:25

Don and Terry plan to visit Lone Wolf this week to spray food plots, set out cameras, and catch up with the team. 39:17

sports

An unnamed USA softball player said everyone knows where the team stands on social injustice, but competing isn’t the time to disrespect why they’re there. 33:42

spring-plot

Terry recommends doing both spring and fall plots to hedge against one season failing. 25:58

switchgrass

Brian Rusk stayed after a master class to help Terry and Don burn a switchgrass field before making his farm video. 2:38
Terry says Real World has been selling out of its switchgrass seed variety every year and believes no one else grows that particular variety commercially. 57:35
Terry announces Real World Switchgrass seed won’t be available for purchase until about late December because it must be harvested first. 58:00
Terry’s friend James Morgan has spent the whole summer video-documenting each step of Terry’s switchgrass planting process for an upcoming video. 59:56
Terry says young switchgrass can be safely sprayed with 2,4-D once it reaches the four-leaf stage, not before. 60:28
Kyle Watson asks whether mowing cornstalks then no-tilling/broadcasting switchgrass is right, or if he should disk the ground first. 52:43

trail-camera

Terry reports that so far this summer he is disappointed by the size of bucks appearing on his trail cameras. 4:09

tree-planting

Terry recommends planting trees only while dormant, after they’ve lost their leaves. 45:33
Terry recommends flagging tree planting sites and spraying a five-foot herbicide circle around each flag ahead of planting. 46:09

wedding

Terry’s youngest daughter got married on Friday. 12:24
Terry says one of his life goals was living long enough to walk both of his daughters down the aisle, which he accomplished this weekend. 12:33
Terry describes his new son-in-law Clint Long as a fantastic, high-quality man with his priorities in order who treats his daughter like a queen. 13:15
Did Wes introduce Terry’s daughter to the man she just married? 13:38

Deer activity

unnamed buck (trail-camera) 5:20
Smokey (harvest) 24:36

Listener questions

Question: Did Wes introduce Terry’s daughter to the man she just married? 13:38

Answer: Yes, Wes introduced them and also served as the best man in the wedding. 13:43

Question: What was going on with Terry’s phone this week? 15:05

Answer: Terry’s phone had stopped taking voicemails for days; it’s now fixed and callers can leave messages again. 16:01

Question: When should someone mow off thin, heavily browsed soybeans near bedding and replant a fall blend instead of leaving them? 19:25

Answer: Terry’s rule: if sunlight reaches bare ground between soybean plants (no full canopy), rework or overseed with another crop to boost tonnage. 19:46

Question: For flooded plots with surviving green cover but no real yield, should growers keep the cover or terminate early to replant sooner? 21:43

Answer: Terry says in most cases don’t plant the fall plot too early, because it will mature too much and lose palatability before hunting season. 21:54

Question: When overseeded seed falls through a thick, humid soybean canopy, does it swell and crack but die from lack of light? 28:05

Answer: Terry says he can’t fully explain the mechanism, but overseeding under full canopy yields almost no plants, since seed apparently needs sunlight too. 28:19

Question: Jacob Copaska asks whether different apple varieties cross-pollinate each other and whether apple trees will pollinate his pear trees. 40:57 — asked by Jacob Copaska

Answer: Apple trees won’t pollinate pear trees, but Bartlett pears should self-pollinate fine; different apple varieties will cross-pollinate each other. 41:33

Question: Luke McCoy asks what compromises, if any, one should make on public land between good access and staying away from human intrusion. 47:39 — asked by Luke McCoy

Answer: Terry says he won’t compromise: hunters still need good access and distance from human intrusion, even on public land. 47:52
Answer: Terry criticizes Iowa DNR for making public tracts too accessible, arguing large tracts should instead be left untouched for mature bucks. 50:46

Question: Kyle Watson asks whether mowing cornstalks then no-tilling/broadcasting switchgrass is right, or if he should disk the ground first. 52:43 — asked by Kyle Watson

Answer: Terry advises spraying Roundup with a residual (Cimizine or Atrazine) on cornstalks, then immediately no-till drilling switchgrass seed without disking. 56:49

Don and Terry discussed disappointing cell camera performance this year, with Terry’s seven Reconyx units in Iowa producing few or no buck pictures and Don testing three brands across two providers on his Illinois lease, planning to compare against standard Reconyx cameras placed off tree lines. Terry noted no public-land buck over about 130 inches so far and worried the fall didn’t look promising as historically good camera spots went quiet. Food-plot talk covered flood damage to Terry’s corn plot, the I-70 planting-date rule, and advice on mowing thin soybeans or overseeding under canopy. Listener questions addressed apple/pear cross-pollination and switchgrass establishment after cornstalks. Terry shared that his youngest daughter married Clint Long over the weekend, with Wes introducing the couple and serving as best man, calling it the fulfillment of a life goal. Brian Rusk’s drone food-plot video was announced for social media release.

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