I totally disagree that it's not worth the money, especially if you don't have large plots and tractors. There's a whole lot more native forage than there are food plots and the native forages are drought resistant. When you do other habitat improvements, what are you doing? You are promoting native browse to propagate anytime you thin timber or disk. I would pick and choose where i did it. Basically all you need to do it, is the fertilizer itself, nothing else. It's worth it for some folks.
We're saying the same thing, we're just saying it differently. I agree that native browse is more beneficial than planted plots in many ways. I'm just suggesting that I wouldn't spend my money on fertilizing these native plants until I had done everything I could to stimulate this browse across my entire property. If I have a limited budget, I'm going to use it to promote native browse everywhere possible before I use any of that money fertilizing it. I'd bet 90% of landowners or lessors have some sort of projects they could implement to encourage native browse that wouldn't involve a fertilizer expense. Heck, as mentioned, Ragweed is one of the best natural forages around. You know how to stimulate ragweed on your property? You lightly disc the ground in the months of August thru November when ragweed seed is being dispersed. How many people disc anything but food plots during that time of the year?
