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Is there anyone in Bibb/Perry county willing to help me with getting some food plots planted? I don't have a tractor or fourwheeler.. The plots were planted in past so there wont be any pushing out new spots.. I have seed and fertilizer now. I just don't know how soon my normal tractor help will be free and have time to assist.. I am willing to pay a reasonable amount. I will say fianancially I'm kind of on a tight budget though. This will be my third year hunting. I am 28. So I am learning still. I have gained tons of insight from forums and being out in the woods ALOT.. Learning as I go basically.. I own the property it is 40 acres planted in pines in the early ninetys for me as an investment from my grandfather.. When he died my mom never really did anything to manage the timber.. It was finally thinned about 4 years ago and it was way over due. I have plans to burn it after this deer season as well. Any help would be awesome. I have arial photos and trail cam photos that I can send by text.. Thanks in advance for any help!

How many acres are you trying to plant?

roughly 2. probably little less. im willing to take suggestions from anyone willing to help

Throw and mow! Throw and mow! Throw and mow!

At this point is be willing to do whatever anyone willing to help suggested!

Drive around the area and see if you can find somebody with a tractor and disc or go by the closest country store and ask around. Be ready to pay $45 or so an hour for their work..

That's what I was going to suggest too.

You got a lawn mower you could use? How much summer vegetation is growing in fields right now?

Thanks for the suggestions.. It's not grown up to bad.. My biggest field is about one acre.. I planted it in beans and peas and it's pretty thick with vines and all that.. I'm wondering about just broadcasting fertilizer and seed into it. If yall have any tips about how I could possibly go about doing that with the best results.. I was really amazed at how well it turned out.. I was baffled though because the deer litterally didn't seem to touch it until about a month ago.. I planted May 1st.. Now they are seriously eating it up... There are a good amount of soy bean pods so I'm wondering what I should do from here. The other couple plots are just about 1/4 acre plots tucked into the pines.. Wouldn't take much to cut it back..

If you can get out there when it is raining...(assuming it ever does!)

I would just leave those beans standing & hunt it.

They have moved off our fields for the most ...we have acorns dropping big time ....so they gonna hit them acorns first. But I agree with the throw and mow

Broadcast seed into the majority of the plot, then mow it down. Leave a few rows of beans standing.

Thanks for all the input

Why would anyone mow down such a great looking stand of soybeans? Makes no sense to me

What the heck? did you have a fence to keep them out? That's a 1 acre bean field?

I would wait until right before the next good rain event and broadcast it full of cereal rye and clover. Once we get a frost here in a few weeks then your beans will not be green anymore. That's when the cereal grains will come on.

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Those pictures are one half of the acre.. I actually didn't fence that side off at all and it turned out better than the other side.. I did spread a bag of milogrante at planting.. On the other side I got some rebar stakes and caution tape and set it up exactly like a dual perimeter electric fence set up and also spread a bag of milogrante around that side.. Both halves did way more than I expected.. I was really worried because until about a month ago I didn't have a deer on camera and seriously there wasn't the first sign of deer in the whole 40 acres.. There wasn't the first sign of browse in the beans until a month ago.. I planted iron clay peas, quail haven soybeans, ag soybeans, and au golden sun hemp on May 1st.. The rates were about 25 lbs each.. The sun hemp didn't do what as well as expected.. It seemed the peas took off super fast and hemp coulnt keep up.. I'm new to all this and this was my first warm season plot.