Thinking of planting some pines for bedding cover, probably 20 acres or so. Anyone have any info on prices and steps. Thanks in advance

See if you can apply or qualify for a grant for re-forrestation at your countys extension office. A buddy bought 300 acres in hale co and had 100 acres planted for pennys on the dollar.

That would be great, I'll look into it

If you're in Henry County, I'd look at longleaf pines. Call your local Alabama Forestry Commission office.

^^^^^^ what n2trkys said you want be sorry. It's a little more expensive but worth every dime in my book dam a loblolly.

If you're wanting to create bedding cover for deer there's a lot of better options than pines. If you're not wanting the financial returns of pines, I'd let it grow up naturally and keep it burned or mowed. I'm sure some guys on here can steer you in the right direction. After several years , pines turn into a wasteland unless your burning longleaf pines.

Its been growing naturally for about 15 years. Its just some sparse wiregrass and a few 30 ft pines. It was pastureland before that.

I bought some sawtooths from Porcupine hollow farms. They've got a lot of different pine trees. Some of the prices I remember $0.29 to $0.50 for a thousand

Really I heard $40.00 per thousand. I just feel like its 20 acres of wasted land. Its wide open with very little browse growing in it and it borders a neighbors cattle pasture, a dirt road, and a paved road on 3 of 4 sides. I want to leave strips for plots

Might as well make some money with your land. You can mark off the areas you want to leave for your foodplots. If it was pastureland, you may need to rip it before planting. You can write off your planting cost on your taxes.

I'm not the owner (I may be one day) its family land, Im the only one who hunts it. I have the ability to do pretty much whatever I want with it other than clear cutting, and I would never do that. And Im certain noone will complain about increasing the property value.

Old pasture land, you can get cost share to do longleaf. It will probably run around $100 to clear (it was grown up for 15 years), $100 for herbicides next summer $45 for planting and $90 for trees (containerized at 500 per acre) per acre. Cost share should return you about 50% of that. Loblolly (done right) will cost the same minus $45 for trees.

A good longleaf stand is an excellent, and huntable, bedding area!