Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Quality Deer Management Throw n Mow Q&A

It's really your call on whether you want to spend the money and time to do it over again. It would also be a little bit of a gamble the later we get into summer. At some point we are likely gonna turn hot and dry. I'd probably just let it go if it were me.

The deer will hammer the sorghum once it matures leave it alone.

I left some sorghum in one of my fields one year and the deer would bed in the middle of my food plot and then just stand up and eat the seed heads off the sorghum. its a hardy plant, I may broadcast some into some half ass pushed out log landings since it grows so easily and will be a food source later in the year

I wish I had the video of the night me and Elkhunter his wife and one of the other members went to some sorghum fields. There were 10-15 bucks in one of the fields and a bunch of does.

Can you burn the field to burn up some of the thatch?

Lease owners will not allow us to burn ( Timber company land )... I wish they would. That would make a huge difference on our whole lease.

will be going down one morning this week to check on fields. I have enough ICP left to do another 1.5 acre field. Im gunna try to get those in next time rain is forecasted and be done.

Are y'all getting any rain on your fields?? Looks like it's been hit and miss for a lot of folks.

Its been every day or so for us.Barely got the bean field sprayed with Round Up but ended up getting a great kill.Don't know if I will get it fertilized. Was going to use liquid but it needs 24 hours dry time and my buddy up there just had to travel on a family emergency.

it's rained a ton on my Ic peas/ clover fields. Hoping to get a little time this afternoon to stop and look at them. I'd like to think they are 6-8 inches tall in IC peas with lush clover underneath it and some weeds growing

Apparently I didn’t put enough milorganite out cause the deer have murdered mine already.

9 day update on my Ic peas mixed into my clover, I think I've got it going on right now! Clover has made a jump with getting a rain every day and the IC peas are filling in the gaps. Here are example pics of a couple of my fields. Very anxious to watch it grow and how each one reacts to the other. I expect the deer to wipe them out in a couple of weeks judging from past plantings.

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WOW!!!!…..Nice looking plot!

The deer should like that, but your right my experience is that those peas will be wiped out soon. Looks like there is plenty of clover to keep them happy

thanks, I'm pretty excited about my plots! I have 5 that look like that, I would have 8 or 9 but the loggers messed a few up dragging trees across them so I'll basically have to start over to some extent with those. These berrys on the briars are around every one of these fields also, needless to say the animals have a buffet to eat
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All this rain has kept everything green and growing.I know there are way more groceries out there right now than needed.I planted 6 acres of beans this year and I think they are already to the point the deer will not be able to keep up.

All this rain has kept everything green and growing.I know there are way more groceries out there right now than needed.I planted 6 acres of beans this year and I think they are already to the point the deer will not be able to keep up.Your fields look great and there are definitely some clipped stems in the close up.

Went back yesterday and bushhogged my roads and re-seeded a couple areas where the millet didn’t come up. I hope the rain drove the seeds in a bit before the dang doves ate it all up. They were like a bunch of vultures!

Seed it one more time in about a month and you ought to be ready for a hell of a dove hunt! It's too bad its not dove season right now. I mowed down all the cereal grains in my apple orchard a couple weeks ago and now there's about 40-50+ doves coming in.

Bad as I hate to admit it I got one hell of stand of proso millet right now under my straw cover.