What's Your Food Plot?

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I sprayed the weeds last week and 1/2 of the seeds have arrived. I'm hoping to lightly till the soil this weekend and spread seeds Monday afternoon before the rain hits.
After doing interwebs searching, I decided to order from DeerSeeds.com by the pound, their pricing, blends, and descriptions were better, it arrived a few days after ordering :D The 1/4lb red clover was a bonus.
Clover/Chicory mix http://www.deerseeds.com/content/deerseedscom-custom-cloverchicory-mix-order-pound
Drought Resistant Blend http://www.deerseeds.com/content/deerseeds-drought-resistant-blend-pound

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The Hinson Soybeans, Ebony Cow Peas And Rongai Lab Lab bean mix should be here soon, they'll be away from the edges of the food plot.
Hive me your input!
I'll post pics as it progresses. I'll also set up a 2nd game cam in the area.
I'm looking forward to the population increase of deer, turkey, rabbit, etc. Oh, this will also be at the end of my rifle range :)
https://www.whitetailproperties.com/blog/what-to-plant-in-spring-food-plots-for-deer
 
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This weekend i cut several large branches ( a large pickup truck's load) of red oak and a bunch of 2" trash trees around part of the plot to get some more light in. Tilled up 1/4 acre with a walk behind, fertilized and seeded. I was a sore old man. It's finally raining now, I hope I don't lose too much to ants, birds, etc.
Here's the larger branches that came down.
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The brush in the center is the brush from the ends of the branches.
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The plates are 175 yards from the back porch, the arrow is a backstop at ~250 yards. I'm hoping to get some meat off my porch this year :D
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I have planted every imaginable plot mixture you can think of.
Its fun to watch it grow. I’ve had some of the stuff over six feet tall. But it is expensive to keep up.

After all that. I found that clover was the most attractive to my deer. And winter wheat in the fall made a good killing field.

Get a soil test done.
 
I’m subscribed. I use clover, rye and something else I can’t remember the name of. Mines been in for a couple weeks and is sprouting up well already
 
Plant a Soybean crop haven’t planted a field yet the deer could stay away from when they are just coming up.
 
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we’ve had 1-2 days that dropped a very small amount of rain in the last 3 weeks. I checked the game cards and found I have a heard of deer eating all the seedlings as they pop up. 328 pictures in 18 days, all with multiple deer.
What’s the quickest way to set something up to scare them off ?
 
Pink_Vapor said:
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we’ve had 1-2 days that dropped a very small amount of rain in the last 3 weeks. I checked the game cards and found I have a heard of deer eating all the seedlings as they pop up. 328 pictures in 18 days, all with multiple deer.
What’s the quickest way to set something up to scare them off ?
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Didn't you plant it for them to eat? :D
 
I have a small one acre field across the creek on my property. One year, when I did not have a good place to dove hunt, decided it was going to be my dove field. I had planted blends and stuff in the past for deer. But I went all out for my dove field. Spayed it, plowed it up, ton of fertilizer, ton of lime, then planted perfect rows of sunflowers. Was right proud of myself. Every time a sprout would come up the deer would nip it. By September I had a perfect field of these foot tall Sunflower bushes and not a single flower head:( Went back to just pitching corn and whacking deer in that field.:)
 
Remshooter said:
I have a small one acre field across the creek on my property. One year, when I did not have a good place to dove hunt, decided it was going to be my dove field. I had planted blends and stuff in the past for deer. But I went all out for my dove field. Spayed it, plowed it up, ton of fertilizer, ton of lime, then planted perfect rows of sunflowers. Was right proud of myself. Every time a sprout would come up the deer would nip it. By September I had a perfect field of these foot tall Sunflower bushes and not a single flower head:( Went back to just pitching corn and whacking deer in that field.:)
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I put out ~40lbs of sunflower seed last year. Saw only one plant, and it only got ~10" tall.
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Only way I know is to fence it till it gets established.
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Bummer, I have neither the time nor funds.
Maybe this will keep them at a distance
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Since we’re going to have days of rain I torched the brush and put out more seed. Do scarecrows work?
 
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Not much you can do other than a tall fence once they learn its there other than hope this rain helps it all come up faster than they can eat it off but I wouldn’t hold my breath. We have had them mow off 20 acres and never let soybeans come up in fields away from traffic. We have tried some stuff in past as well for soybeans you spray on the fields that supposedly repels them that has hot pepper in it and i think the deer just thought we seasoned them for them and never slowed them down.
 
Jp8819 said:
Not much you can do other than a tall fence once they learn its there other than hope this rain helps it all come up faster than they can eat it off but I wouldn’t hold my breath. We have had them mow off 20 acres and never let soybeans come up in fields away from traffic. We have tried some stuff in past as well for soybeans you spray on the fields that supposedly repels them that has hot pepper in it and i think the deer just thought we seasoned them for them and never slowed them down.
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Will a 1' & 4' hot wire fence keep them off, or will they just hop it after getting shocked?
 
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Will a 1' & 4' hot wire fence keep them off, or will they just hop it after getting shocked?
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They hop our 4 strand pasture electric fences that are set up similar ( bottom wire ground, next hot wire, next ground wire and then top hot wire) all the time so I don’t think it would slow them down or be worth effort. Top wire on it is about chest high just for idea. If new fence they usually run threw it a time or two and break insulators or post till they figure out its there then its just a quick hop over and never even slow down. Only fences i have heard work is when you basicly have two wires spaced about 3-4ft apart staggered and they have trouble judging it to jump.
 
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