Im pretty late to the party, but I accidently did a one two punch approach to cool season grasses and lespedeza. I was working on a prairie restoration job. I mowed then it was time to spray. I found lespedeza scattered through the project blooming. I needed to spray the cool season stuff there and it was late septemeber.so i did 2 quarts of gly per acre and an oz of escort for 100 gallons. Totally killed the cool season grasses to the point there was no cool season grass the next year. Tons of forbs came up and the lezpedeza was gone for a while too. I wouldnt be spraying escort willy nilly, but it seemed to be very effective with the round up.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like a success, nice work!

Good video. When I first started edge feathering fields and food plot borders, I failed to apply Gly to the fescue border prior to the cut. Thus, there was little room for wildlife within the fallen edge. I don’t do that anymore.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

We've all been there! Gotta make mistakes to learn from them!

Great tips

Love Adam and Matt's content, keep up the good work and getting the information out here to us hunters about proper land management. I have a few old fields I'm working on right now with sericea lespedeza and Callery pear trees. Could you guys do a video about the timing to kill those invasives and recommended herbicides to use. Thanks

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

We will put that on our to-do list for content coming up with Matt and Adam! Thanks for watching!

Cool video. I don't understand much about it I would love to see some pictures/video of the step by step of what it looks like through each step. Great stuff!

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Checkout our Habitat Management, TSi & Controlled Burn playlists for some more in depth content on these practices! We will also be adding new content demonstrating some of these things in the next few weeks/months!

I've got an old pasture that's native grasses and bluestem. Recently being taken over with lespedeza. I'm wanting to add switch grass pockets and to line my timber edges. Can a guy burn in late winter/early spring, then put down some Pre emergent chemicals, then gly/24d at spring green up to help kill all grasses and lespedeza( and then mow if need be) to get switch to power threw? NE Kansas for reference. Thanks!

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

It's ideal to spend a growing season controlling competition and then plant the following winter or spring. Providing the switchgrass with a proper start will be the best way for success. If you have to have it planted this spring you can try it, but you'll have to continue to spray for sericea as the summer progress. Hope this helps!!

I did not get the order to do the edge thinning is that first to allow it to be treated? At appropriate time is really no help to me , when is it appropriate? Not very useful for me.

After killing off the fescue is the plan to establish warm season native grasses for cover/bedding ?

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

The plan on this site it to bring back more native species by removing the fescue, sericea and cedars and returning it to a native species dominated field.

Although I have been following this type of information for awhile now...the execution on explaining what your plans are for the old field are very bad here. It would be better to explain each step and show the examples in order.... Explain the process, show the steps, and then edit them into one video...this was hard to follow especially if someone new is trying to understand this. 1. identify the invasive plants, spot spray and kill them 2. spray and kill the fescue 3.chain saw and cut cedars 4. edge feather remaining trees. You explain these steps in this video but it really doesn't make sense, it would be so much better to show the work being done while you explain the purpose and goals, and put this all into one video.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. We explained all the steps in order as you described, filming each step through completion would take years. The purpose of the video was to explain the importance of order of operations, not necessarily to identify specific invasives, how to kill cool season grasses, or edge feathering. All those things were discussed, but again, the point was to help people think about the order in which they implement those practices.

@PrairieThunder

2 жыл бұрын

@@Whitetail_Properties I understand that but my point is this video did nothing to help understand how to implement any of this.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrairieThunder hopefully it helped a few viewers understand that the order in which things are implemented is most important. We will post videos explaining some of these practices in more depth.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrairieThunder Again, that was not the point of the video. We are sorry you didn’t find it helpful.

Thoughts on converting an AG field after the last crop is out?

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

Your best approach will be to plant a highly diverse native blend, heavier on forbs than grasses to best replicate the old field. Maybe a quail friendly CRP or a pollinator programs. Heavy herbicide use and or heavy discing has damaged the seed banks, so supplementing is likely your best option. Hope that helps!

@tankandlaci

2 жыл бұрын

@@Whitetail_Properties it does and that was the direction I was heading but would like to make sure that it’s tall enough in winter to provide cover as well as that is an area the property is lacking. Also doing FSI to help that situation.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

@@tankandlaci Sounds like you're on the right track! Good luck and always feel free to ask questions/share ideas and opinions in the comments! We love the feedback!

I'm a bit confused at what you are going to do with the cedars? Can you explain that a bit?

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

Once the invasives are treated, and cool season grasses sprayed and killed, the cedars will be cut down, and fire will be implemented. The cedars will be consumed after a good burn or two.

@daveulrich4623

2 жыл бұрын

All of the cedars? You’re talking bedding, red cedar are a wonderful base for bedding pockets. Based on this video it doesn’t appear that they’re taking over?

@Brandon-uo1rv

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveulrich4623 In those cases would you just cut some pockets within the cedars and let them decay over time?

@daveulrich4623

2 жыл бұрын

@@Brandon-uo1rv I’m not sure of their situation. I’ve seen parcels that are a monoculture of all Juniper with no browse available. I could see aggressively controlling them in those instances. Just didn’t seem that way from the few camera angles in this vid. Opening up pockets would seem far more effective as you stated.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveulrich4623 It all depends on the site. We actually did a video a few weeks ago in north central Oklahoma where we talked about cedars dotted across the landscape with other good shrubs and native grasses and forbs can be great bedding. Cedar mono cultures are something we discourage and want to take care of when present.

Dude in dark green goes way too hard