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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- from www.GrowingDeer.tv: After a brief Easter greeting, this episode focuses on answering the question: What food plot crop do deer prefer the most? We discuss this and how to choose the best food plot crop for your property. Planning for spring food plots go hand in hand with spring shed antler hunting -- check out this episode for more tips on where to look for the elusive bone!
- Sport
Thank you sir for speaking about Jesus!!!! I’m a “wood” also originally from Arkansas.
Awesome prequel to Mr. Hamby's current deer oasis.
Thanks!
What to plant depends a lot on where you are, what equipment you have, etc. My favorite is Eagle Seed forage soybeans - planted after frost. Deer eat the forage during the summer and the bean pods during the winter.
I like to plant cool season (winter) crops at least 45 days before the first predicted frost. It takes that much time for forage crops to germinate and produce enough tonnage to be viable options.
Wheat is a fine cool season crop. I use Eagle Seed's Monster Wheat. It has been bred for forage production - not seed production like most wheat varieties.
Eagle Seed forage soybeans can be drilled, broadcast, etc., during the spring when soil temps are about 60 degrees. Buck Monster Wheat should be broadcast into the beans as soon as the bean leaves begin turning yellow or 45 days before a frost.
If you want a fall (not planting beans during the summer) I use Eagle's blend that has soybeans, brassicas, and radishes. I used that blend this year and have been thrilled!
I like a mix of radishes and turnips for such locations. Don't forget to fertilize!!
I've been shooting a Matthews bow and Redhead carbon arrows.
Loves y'all's strong profession of Faith!! And also what kind of food plot do you prefer in hardwoods area that doesn't get much sunlight??
C. Blackburn I find hidey holes (small plots off the beaten trail) great locations to
kill mature bucks! 1,200 square feet is about 3/100 of an acre. Hence,
it needs to be a browse tolerant forage, or time the planting/hunting
closely so deer don’t consume all the forage before there are good
conditions to hunt! White clover is fairly shade and browse tolerant. I
suggest making sure all weed competition is removed (using herbicide or
tillage) and heavily fertilize the area. Fertilizer will accomplish two
goals including making the forage more palatable than other food sources
and allowing the forage to continue growing even if there are lots of
deer eating at the plot. Another great tool is a @non-typical/catalog.asp?product=hot-zone-deer-exclosure&tab=faq
(you may have seen them used on GrowingDeer.tv). These solar powered
fences keep deer out until you wish to hunt, then you can create a gap
in the fence that funnels deer into a good shooting position.- Grant
Dillon - I do prefer soybeans over corn. Deer consume they soybean forage and then the seeds during the winter. Soybeans are a two season crop - unless the deer wipe them out before pod production occurs. If that strategy doesn't work, I like a mixture of brassicas, radishes, and wheat for winter plots.
I have tractors, plows drills and planters. I have winter wheat planted in the ground. I have a 2 acre plot that I put corn in late Feb and Milo in early March. Sunflowers are wild and I leave a few standing wild. I am in Central Texas.
Great! Sounds like some good work started there!- Tracy & The GrowingDeer.tv team!
Eagle seed soybeans are great for the deer.And it is definitely the winner in the video.But I have huge soybean fields surrounding me so it wouldn't be anything different for the deer.Are there any different plot mixtures you would recommend?
Hi Doc,
I love your videos! I just locked up a 5 year lease in Dunn County Wisconsin. The property is 93 acres. Its a mix of hardwoods, river bottom, and small Pine tree plantation. The only food source is a 7 acre corn field. I am planning out a couple of destination food plots as well as smaller hunt/ kill plots. Wondering your advice on how to plant the Eagle beans with Buck Monster wheat? When do I broadcast the wheat into the bean plot? Also any other suggestion for the hunt plots?? Thanks
Hey Grant, I've got a question I hope you could answer. I am planning on clearing a hidey hole 20x20 or something like that in some extremely thick cedars . I can't get equipment back there and it may not be the best sunlight, what do you suggest I plant. Thanks
Grant, I live in central MS and I have around 2000 acres of hardwoods and pine plantation w/74 acres of pasture that a farmer just leased for 5 years to plant soybeans to be harvested. I have two of those acres of pasture to myself where I will plant corn and leave standing. Since I can't leave the soybeans standing what do you recommend to plant and when for the fall/winter deer season and do you recommend me planting soybeans rather than corn? I do have more small food plots(4) each an acre.
Thank you! When do you suggest I plant that? I live in Ontario if that means anything. I ask because the misquitos on my property get so thick as there is a swamp and a creek nearbye and its pretty much impossible to get down there in the summer without getting carried away by bugs, even if you are wearing spray. If thats a factor is there anything else you suggest? Thanks again, sorry for all the questions
My food plot is only one acre. For years I've planted iron clay peas in the Spring and buck oats in the Fall. Any suggestions on what else I might add? Also I have several persimmon trees on the edges that are from 5 to 20 years old, some wild and some I planted. They never have had persimmons. Any advice? Thank you from North Georgia.
I would plant a fall blend. We use Eagle Seed Broadside. Broadside has wheat, soybeans, radishes and turnips. Here is an episode where we talk about how and why Broadside we use this blend: www.growingdeer.tv/#/scouting-hit-list-bucks-and-fall-food-plots-all-hands-on-deck . I suspect that your trees are either all female or all male. Most persimmons are not self pollinating. To produce fruit there needs to be both male and female tress in the area. Thanks for watching! -Daniel
Hey, I live in eastern SC and have about 10 acres in front of my house that I plant for the wildlife, mainly deer. I lime and fertilize according to soil tests. I plant 5 acres at a time but the deer demolish it before it hardly gets out of the ground. Any suggestions?
The preference between corn and soybean is due to optimal forage theory as much as it is to taste. Soybean is higher in protein, energy, and fat than corn. While corn has a high TDN value, it its low in protein. Plus, soybean is just easier for deer to eat.
I have the same trouble with deer destroying the crop in some of my smaller plots. For a few years I’ve been using the HotZone Electric fence. They work great! Check out battenfeld technologies website. - Grant
What is your opinion on turnips? I live in the mountain region of NC and have never heard anyone growing soybeans up here, however, turnips seem to do really well on some friend's property. Also, what do you think about some of the pre-mixed blends they sell at Cabelas, Bass Pro, etc., I've heard that they are basically a rip off. One last thing and then I'll leave you alone, how do you obtain permission to use roadkill deer carcasses for baiting traps? Thanks, Jared.
Jared Jaynes Soybeans will grow fine in the North Carolina mountains. I used to live in the SC mountains and still have friends there that produce great food plot crops of soybeans.
Soybeans are a warm season crop - planted during the spring. Turnips are a cool season crop - planted during the late summer or fall.
Both are good crops for their mission. Soybeans produce very high quality forage and are very attractive to deer. I often combine both - I plant soybeans during the spring and then broadcast turnip seed in the beans during the late winter. This provides the best of both worlds and the deer never need to leave the area to seek quality food. I plant the Eagle Seed Broadside mix -- it's a great crop to plant in September that will help feed your deer herd through the winter!
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I have a small erea to plant food plot, I wanted to plant clover and soybeans in the spring (1/4 acre for both plants side by side) then plant soybeans again in middle june (1/4 acre and fence off ) and then broadcast over clover as well. Then plant the Broadside (1/4 acre) about 2 months before 1st. frost. I live in N.E. Oklahoma. Whats your take on this, or what could I do differently to improve my total (1acre food) plot for doing better at attracting deer and holding them there for a honey hole kill zone? Also i have no trees and wind blows to the north a lot here. My field joins my neighbors field going south then into neighbors woods. I dont know much about my nieghbor or his land, what food might be there, but I do know there are deer there.
Thanks for reaching out Dennis.Two quick questions before I share my thoughts. Are you surrounded by agriculture fields? Do you have any cover? -Daniel
There is some agriculture around but not much and I have no cover ( no trees, nothing, all flat field, but also some cattle farmer's in the erea.
I also would like to have you're opinion on Big Tine BT*90 ( Cerry Rush ) feed and salt block? I have a small piece of land im currently hunting from a friend so I can't make food plots there, no alterations at all, but i do have a feeder and salt block, the cheery rush Big Tine. I have a doe family of 4 and they love the feed. I have over 100 cam pics and not one shows them licking the salt block. No bucks have come around, I'm temporarily hunting this cause it all that's available to me till I get my new land i previously messaged you about
Dennis,
Real quick, I would not begin feeding right now during the "stress" period. This can result in negatives for deer health. Also, many "feeds" are filler and do not meet the nutritional needs of deer. Deer use salt when they need it. I suspect that you are not seeing the deer use the salt block because they do not currently need salt.
As for your property/planting rotation, the best course of action would be to plant the entire acre in forage soybeans (indeterminate). With this being said, deer are likely to browse heavily on an acre of soybeans where there is no other agriculture. However, by planting an indeterminate variety there will continue to be new growth even under browse pressure.
Broadcast (or no-till drill, if you have the ability) the Broadside during the late summer (60-45 days before the average first frost). As you have indicated, fencing a portion of this area would be great for hunting over during the late season (You can see how we build and design an electric fence here: www.growingdeer.tv/#/food-plots-a-great-tool-to-improve-hunting-quality However, I would consider fencing a smaller area than 1/4 acres so that deer can feed more throughout the entire year. This fenced off area is strictly for hunting and not for feeding per say.
As for the clover, clover often flushes in the spring and the late fall, planting for the summer would reduce acres of potential forage. I would recommend planting your road system and the edge of your food plot with clover during he late summer. Best results will be to seed the clover with winter wheat. For the best stand of clover, I would then touch up these areas by frost seeding during the late winter/early spring.
Hope this helps.
Daniel
Thanks it did help
Have you ever heard anything about or planted radishes? We are from Wisconsin and our uncle planted some radishes on the land we hunt because he had heard they are good for late season hunting. I am not sure if i have ever heard anything about them before and was just looking to see if you could shed some light on the situation. Thanks, Jason
did you guys get an answer? i wondered what is best to plant next to crop farm land on edge of woods?
No we have not. Although i can tell you that the ones that were planted on the property we hunt, do not seem to be as attracting as we had hoped. Not sure if it is too much work for deer to dig them up once they are snow covered or if it is simply because they are not tasty and desirable enough.
Yes, we plant radishes. They are in the Broadside mix by Eagle Seed. If you are planting brassicas (radishes/turnips) it often takes the deer a while to recognize them as a food source. Once they learn they are "food" your deer will dig down in the snow to find them. That's why we like the broadside mix -- green young soybeans in the early fall, greens from the brassicas, then the tubers and wheat for late winter. They are attracted to the food plot early and stay through the winter. Don't give up yet on your radishes. Keep us updated on your success/failure -- Tracy for the GrowingDeer.tv team
what do I do I have big fields of soybeans that we farm and corn to what could I plant in this timber that is in the middle of it all that they bed and always there in day light so what do u think I should plant
Braden, it sounds like you have food sources during the summer (the soybeans and corn). I would focus on winter food. If you can, you may try to leave some some standing beans or corn in a location you can hunt. I would recommend if you can planting Eagle Seed's broadside for your winter food source. You can also make small hidey hole food plots in the timber and can plant Broadside or clover there. Grant explains this a little more here: www.growingdeer.tv/view/ask/how-do-i-create-hidey-hole-food-plots/ Thanks for watching! -Daniel
Canola, turnips, radish's would be great for a fall crop during hunting season. Or go with a Clover a great perennial.
I'm looking for land in northeastern La to hunt, never done anything like this. Got any suggestions?
Sorry - your question got lost in the email stack from the holidays. I just found your question as I visited the comments section for this video. Check with some of the timber companies for a lease or join a hunting club on timber company land. Or do you want to buy your own land? - Tracy for the GrowingDeer.tv team
northeastern la u aren't going to find anything
What do you suggest for the best turkey food plot
+TheTubbyPickle Good question, but this depends on what time of the year you are trying to attract turkeys? We plant soybeans and leave them standing through the fall and winter. Once those are browsed our clover plots begin to green up and turkeys love the fresh tender clover. -Matt
+GrowingDeer.tv thank you very much. we just did a burn on our property and it freed up some land for a food plot. Im trying to improve turkey habitat because in my county in Illinois we can only have a fall archery season for turkeys because of the low numbers
+TheTubbyPickle I recommend creating nesting habitat as well! Turkeys will find food! If you have the best nesting cover around, hens will be there. This means gobblers will be close by as well. Instead of just feeding turkeys, this will hopefully create more turkeys. -Matt
Thank You
When I plant beans or peas they get destroyed at 2". How big a plot is necessary to insure sucess.
I am so sorry. Your question must have gotten lost in the email pile. Here it is 10 months later and I'm just seeing this as I visit the comments section for this video. I can forward your question to Grant now, if you like. This is Tracy, Grant's wife - I manage the GrowingDeerTV youtube account, take care of getting questions to him, posting videos, and such. So this is completely all my fault.
Please do. Last spring I planted 100# of soy and 100# of cow peas along with 500 milo and 300 hay grazer and only a few made it to maturiy. between the hogs and deer they were killed.
65dirt The size of the plot necessary to produce soybeans is dependent on the number of deer locally, the productivity of the plot, and alternate food sources such as the quality of native browse in the area. I do a lot of prescribed fire and have fairly high quality native browse. The quality of the native browse at The Proving Grounds peaks about the time when the forage soybeans at my place are germinating, there is plenty of food and deer don’t decimate the beans during the critical stage of their development. I have 53 acres of appropriately fertilized food plots and about 500 acres of productive native browse/cover areas in the 1,500 acres of The Proving Grounds. However, the neighboring properties are mainly unmanaged hardwoods and fescue pasture. There is no row crop ag within counties of me. So I provide the quality forage for all the deer in the neighborhood. The ratio of plots to total acreage to produce quality deer will be more or less at different areas depending on the production of each plot and land use practices on the neighboring properties. If the deer density is high and there are many other quality food sources when the soybeans are germinating, then plots even an acre or more in size would need to be protected with a Hot Zone electric fence to allow them to mature enough to not be damaged by browse pressure. - Grant
Thanks for taking the time to answer this comment. I have sixty acres to play with and last year I broadcast a hodge podge of seeds to attract both deer and birds. This year I will drill and plant with more design and planning with hopes of doing better.
having 0 evidence of jesus aside.... how is celebrating the torture and sacrifice of someone a good thing?
your god sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself... lol come on
CCGG262,
We are happy to have friendly discussions about this topic.
There are many historical documents that confirm Jesus was a real man. These are not only from religious writings but also secular documents.
Christ's torture and death was one not only of a physical body but it had spiritual implications for us and the entire world. As humans, God created us to have a relationship with him. This is found in the creation of the Garden of Eden and Adam (Genesis). Because love can only exist if there is free will, God gave man free will. However, Adam chose freely to go against God and sinned. Sin entered the world through Adam separating him from God. The consequence of that sin was/is death (both physical and spiritual)
Since then, sin has continued to separate man from God. As humans, we cannot bridge the gap between ourselves and God. Because God still wants us to have a relationship with him, he sent his Son, Jesus, to die so that the chasm between man and God could be bridged and the relationship restored.
God did not save us from himself, but saved us from sin, through Christ. Because of Christ's death but most importantly his resurrection, we now have the opportunity to enter into relationship with God. This relationship is like any relationship, it takes work on our part but has wonderful meaning for not only our lives here on earth but the community we will share with Him after death.
I welcome any comments and thoughts that you may have!
Daniel
GrowingDeer.tv please show me the evidence of Jesus existing, you would be the first person on the planet to do so.
Also, I presume you believe your god is omnipotent and omniscient, so why would he put the tree in that place knowing that they would eat the forbidden fruit? Moreover, genetics tells us that we didnt come from 2 forebearers, but through 3.4 billion years of evolution.
Also, didnt the fictional adam and eve characters have 2 sons...? Do you see the problem here?
Save us from sin? This is saving us from himself... since sin gets you sent to hell. God sends us to hell... do you see how he tortures and kills himself to save us from himself?
Also, why doesnt he just destroy the devil for good?
Also, there is no contemporary writings of Jesus, since the gospels were written 30-50 years after his death. Additionally, some of the gospels have been shown to be forgeries , ie one copying off the other. And i assume you do know that the names attributed to the gospels are not the actual names of the authors (we still dont know all the authors of the gospels)
All bow wax is scentless. You are giving paid advertisements but didn't divulge that info. This is the reason I will never watch one of your videos again. You went from good info, to paid info. They aren't the same, and one is immoral.