When do you plan to "break/disc" your plots? I in the past because I lived so far away from my lease would disc and plant on the same day. Now I don't have to do that... I was told (so now I want to hear from the group) disc and let sit for a week or two and then come back disc light and plant.

So, what do you do?

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

I like to disc and plant same time, helps with the moisture and nutrients I feel like. Everytime you plow that ground after it’s already been plowed is breaking it down. That’s just my opinion

I think im done plantin food plots…corn works better anyway

BUSh hogging and discing what we can this weekend. gonna plant the following weekend

Timing on disking and planting shouldnt matter. I will do everything I can to let the grass lay for a few weeks before disking. Hate grass wrapping up in disk.

I bush hogged mine this past weekend. Plan to spray in the next couple of weeks. Then disc and plant sometime in early-ish October.

It just works better in general if you aren't trying to disk it up and plant it while everything is still green. I am on the same page with crocker I try to bush hog the plot down to the dirt then let it lay a week or two.

Kev, I sprayed all mine yesterday. I’m gonna let it die good. I’ll run a bush hog over it disk and plant and plant in early October

Bush hog the weekend of Sept 22nd and plant the weekend of Oct 13th. Works great for us in SE AL. Cooler nights by then, let's the grass start to go dormant and hopefully fall fronts bring some rain.

I mow first, wait a few days for a little new growth then spray. After that I'll wait 10-14 days for it to dry out and degrade before discing. Trying to disc standing knee to waist high crabgrass, weeds, etc. is a no go. It needs to burn up in the sun for a period of time before it's ready for me to disc

IDK why anyone would plant plots anymore when you can achieve the same thing with a corn feeder you simply have to pull up to in your truck and fill up every 2 weeks. Dont even need a tractor, simply use a weedeater to clear out a 10'x10' area and throw a feeder up....it is less expensive than seed/diesel/fertilizer, and is less work

Also don't have to plan around weather, takes less time, not as glamorous as a pretty winter plot, but pretty much achieves the same result.

I just got access to about 320 acres down here in Mobile county. Small plots except for a powerline plot. I’m thinking about just broadcasting into the standing existing vegetation and then running it down with the skid steer. Laying all the existing grasses down flat.

What y’all think about that?

This will probably be the only year this land is able to be hunted. So these plots won’t be planted next year.

I’d spray before or after

Was told by multiple older farmers that the nitrogen will be bound up during the initial decomp process of the green biomass in the soil, hence give it a week or so after. It may be slightly delayed, but after decomp does it’s thing the seed will emerge and be fine when planted immediately after breaking ground (if not sprayed or clipped low ahead of breaking/planting day).
It’s just like after you grind a stump and the grass doesn’t grow well there for a while. The more grindings you leave around and in the hole, the longer it takes for the grass to grow well…the more green biomass you turn into the soil, the longer the process takes before releasing the nitrogen needed by the seed.

I sprayed my fields four weeks ago and disc the fields today. they were still a little wet from rain last week and that really helped. I will drag the fields and plant them next Sat. and then drag them again after we put out the fertilizer and seed. This will depend on how wet the soil is or when the next good rain is predicted. Don't mind putting down the fertilizer when it is dry, but need rain in forecast to put seed down.

When discing, I don’t waste my time spraying my fields if I’m not gonna burn them off.

If you use the timing I use above, you never have to burn.

Try 300 lbs of corn in a broadcaster and just drive the fields. Do it the week before rut in your area. You can thank me later.

Already completed

Most of the time I’ll bushhogg all of mine then disk them one time the week after. Then after a couple weeks of everything rotting I’ll spread seed and fertilize and lightly disk and cultipack the seed in