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Need Food Plot Advice
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02/05/17 12:35 PM
02/05/17 12:35 PM
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Trying to put a strategy together for planting this off season. I'll layout what my property generally looks like:
About 75 acres, a good 60-70% of which are 3 fields that are planted in soybeans every summer for cash crop, beans are cut late summer or early fall then winter wheat is planted as a cover crop that comes up thru winter. None of these fields are planted for the express purpose of attracting deer although the beans obviously do before and just after they are cut, but once they are gone I don't really see the deer browsing the wheat that much. The rest of the property is a hardwood creek bottom and slough, very swampy at times with fair amount of white oaks, a couple small pine thickets.
I have a few smaller spots in mind between these 3 ag fields that I could plant, just wondering what you would plant given what the deer will already have available to them with the beans and wheat in these large fields?
Last edited by NWALJM; 02/05/17 12:38 PM.
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Re: Need Food Plot Advice
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02/05/17 01:15 PM
02/05/17 01:15 PM
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Yelp softly
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Dr. Harper suggests that studies show pure oats are the best attractant strictly for harvest plots. It sounds like you have nutrition taken care of, so you're looking just for an attractant.
Could you pay the farmer to leave a few rows of beans standing for early season hunting? During a mild fall and winter, you could get good mileage out of that arrangement.
"When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, when there was no crawdad, we ate sand."
"YOU ATE SAND!" - Raising Arizona
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Re: Need Food Plot Advice
[Re: NWALJM]
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02/06/17 06:38 AM
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Re: Need Food Plot Advice
[Re: NWALJM]
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02/06/17 06:49 AM
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Yelp softly
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What about frost seeding clover for Spring, opinions? I had very lackluster results with my attempt at winter seeding clover. I think it was partially due to infrequent rainfall so I wouldn't rule out trying it again one day.
"When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, when there was no crawdad, we ate sand."
"YOU ATE SAND!" - Raising Arizona
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Re: Need Food Plot Advice
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02/10/17 10:44 AM
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What about frost seeding clover for Spring, opinions? I had very lackluster results with my attempt at winter seeding clover. I think it was partially due to infrequent rainfall so I wouldn't rule out trying it again one day. I've been seeing for most clover blends that right now until early March is the plant dates. Do you think you could get a clover plot established planting it by hand, much like you would a no-plow small plot? The places I'm looking at planting in clover are at their largest 1/4 of an acre or smaller. I've got about 3-4 spots in mind.
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Re: Need Food Plot Advice
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02/13/17 02:19 AM
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I wouldn't plant perrenial clovers late winter or spring. I would plant in the fall. They need time to develope their root system and it needs several months to do this, before we have hot dry summers.
Last edited by blumsden; 02/13/17 02:20 AM.
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Re: Need Food Plot Advice
[Re: NWALJM]
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02/13/17 05:04 AM
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I agree with Blum if you're looking for the best results. But I would think it would be okay to try a planting now, as long as you realize you may not get optimum results. What could it hurt? It may give your deer a little something to eat that they wouldn't otherwise have had. If you choose to plant now, just realize that Blum is right and a fall planting will probably yield better results.
"When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, when there was no crawdad, we ate sand."
"YOU ATE SAND!" - Raising Arizona
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Re: Need Food Plot Advice
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02/13/17 07:29 AM
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Cool, I may wait until fall anyhow with all this warm "winter" weather we've been having it might make it tough to grow a Spring plot with all the competing weeds and such.
What could/should I be doing now and leading up to the fall plant time for these areas to prepare for best results? When to fertilize, lime, roundup, etc? Lime now, yesterday would be better.
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