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Finally got my field finished up yesterday. I spread the seed out before this last rain event and then came back in yesterday afternoon and spread the corn. I put out 200 lbs of whole corn and 100 lbs of cracked corn across roughly 2 acres. After hunting the field a couple of times I decided to do a modified version of my original plan. It was just impossible to see the deer as thick as the dog fennel had grown up. So as I was spreading the seed and corn I lowered my bucket down to about 6-8 inches off the ground with the bottom of the buck running parallel to the ground like a blade. This laid over most of the taller vegetation but still left it to where it didn’t feel completely open. This also acted as the first step in the mob grazing process….the deer will take it from here.

This is standing in the front of the field looking toward the back. I left a buffer of dog fennel around most of it except for a couple spots where I wanted to be able to see down in the woods a little ways from my stand.



This pic is the front of the field where I was just standing. I’m posting it to show how I’m using dog fennel as a buffer and screen.



This is the left side….again showing the buffer



…..and this is part of the right side buffer. Fingers crossed now....lets see how this experiment turns out. I'm guessing its gonna be a while before it looks green like a golf course.