Planting Corn and Soybean Food Plot With 2 Row Corn Planter
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- In this video I plant 2 food plots. The larger field I split into 2/3 soybeans and 1/3 Corn. It is only a little over 1 acre total. Luckily we are able to get away with planting small food plots without over browsing from the deer herd. These food plots we don't really hunt over and are destination food sources. We plant these large food sources into corn and beans to supply the deer plenty of winter food to keep them healthy thought the winter so they can start off strong the following year.
Anyone else jealous of how good his soil looks? 😂 I’m over here in Kentucky with light brown soil.
Just because it’s dark doesn’t mean it has all the nutrients. We took soil samples in 3 of our plots including this one last year and found out our soil is very low in Potassium and low in Phosphorus. Organic mater is through the roof at 10%. But our heavy clay soil where we live about 30 min away from this property was extremely high in potassium and had adequate phosphorus levels at only 2% organic mater. The beans we grew behind our house on clay soil got taller and yielded higher than the beans we grew in this field last year.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing when they were turning over the soil
Wisconsin Whitetail you seem like you know what your doing. We have planted soybeans a couple different years and before they get 6 inches high they get eaten down and die. I have been learning a lot from these videos.
If you are planting multiple acres of beans and they are still getting over browsed because of the lack of ag in your area I would recommend planting just strait brassicas and winter rye. Down in Kentucky the rye should grow through the whole winter and supply plenty of green forge all winter long.
Appreciate all your work you've really come a long way
I really like your format. The fact that you post the updates in the videos is great. Hope my plots look as good as yours this year! Good luck this season!
Thanks, I’ve always included updates in my food plot videos, a lot of other food plot videos never have updates. Everyone is in such a rush to get the video uploaded. Then you have to look for an update video on their channel if you want to see results. Including everything in the same video makes the most sense.
Wow, love the follow up shots! Things are looking good for you!
Thanks, I’ve seen some of your videos in the past. What state are you in.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 Far Southern, IL near Kentucky, thanks.
Great job on the corn
Thanks
You always do a great job
What are you using to spray and kill the weeds and not the corn and beans?
That's some good looking dirt you have sir
It may look good but we need to add a lot of potash (k) and phosphate (p) fertilizer to get good plots like this. It’s very low in both. The video you commented on before this one is in our backyard on another property with clay soil that’s pretty hard to work but much higher in nutrients and doesn’t need as much fertilizer. I think black dirt like this is overrated, all it has is it’s high organic matter content because it’s a kinda low area, but a lot of black dirt like this seems to dry up fast when worked, whereas the clay ground holds moisture very well.
What did you spray corn with?
You could put winter peas in with your beans deer eat them too and they don't die down as fast. Plus they stand up to heavy browse pressure. Not that you have that early on
We had really good growth in our small bean pots this year with very little browse from deer. I will be uploading a corn and beans update video hopefully before August is over.
Have you ever tried planting your corn rows with beans in between the rows? it gives you double the food for the same space.
We put in a plot last year into beans and ran a few rows of corn as screening and everything did great. I probably could have don’t more like that this year. I think in the future I may try planting the beans one direction and then planting the corn rows the other direction creating a checkerboard effect. I am not sure it will add double the food but having beans mixed with the corn will definitely add some food that’s for sure.
Lime lime lime...more fertilizer too..if you want good good corn.
What are you spraying to kill weeds?
Yes we have really started to fertilize ours plots the last 2 years. We don’t need to lime, the ph is fine. I use glyphosate mixed at 2 oz per gallon to kill the weeds
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 fly won't kill corn or beans???
Why do you mean by “fly”
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 gly sorry glyco
Love the videos you share, I'm curious though I see a lot of tree tubes in your videos. What kind of trees are you groing?
Thanks 👍
In this particular video we have a few trees planted around the edges of this plot. They are Chinese Chestnuts. In other areas of our property we have some hybrid poplars, cottonwoods, Basswoods and a few other types.
What kinda spray brand and amount did you use?
Glyphosate mixed at 2oz per gallon
What did you use to kill the weeds
Glyphosate, 3oz per gallon or 2quarts per acre
Great job on your plots. I enjoy putting mine in every year. I usually walk my fields with a backpack sprayer to kill the weeds but since I have more plots to spray this year I bought a atv sprayer. I was wondering what you use to spray your plots and does it hurt the corn and soybeans when you run them over with your tractor or atv? I don't own a row planter yet so my seeds are broadcasted but I tried over seeding a little just in case the tractor and or atv tires kill the soybeans and corn when I spray them. Thank you for your help and keep up the videos.
For non-RR corn you can kill broadleafs with 24D. Beans are a legume so in a pure stand you can spray 24D for broadleafs and clethodim for grasses (don't mix them, spray one then the other).
I used to walk mine with a backpack sprayer also. I use a gas powered 25 gallon cart sprayer for the corn by straddling the rows. The boom is only about 6 ft wide. For the beans I used a 15 gallon spot sprayer. I can spray about 10 yards one each side of the atv. Using the spot sprayer wand I was able to do less passes. Beans are pretty hardy and usually pop back up and are only stunted a little, but corn pretty much dies once it’s ran over.
I wouldn’t use 24D on soybeans, it will severely stunt and almost kill them turning them yellow and not palatable to the deer for the rest of the year and drastically reducing yield. I learned that the hard way a few years ago.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 my beans and corn are both roundup ready. I have a 25 gallon boomless sprayer that covers a 10' wide strip each pass so I may try using my wand to see how much it will cover before driving through either the corn or soybean plots. Most of my plots are also anywhere between a half acre to 1.5 acres so I'll just spray in as far as I can and just drive a few passes on what I can't reach the spray wound. Thank you for your help and I hope your plots get doing great.
@@wolfpack4128 Thank you. My corn and soybeans are both RR. My main question was wondering how much damage the tractor or atv tires do to the crop while driving through it to kill of the new weeds. I think I'm going to use my wand sprayer and spray into the plot as far as I can while driving the perimeter and then drive through with my boomless sprayer that covers a 10' width each pass to cover the rest of the plots. Most of my plots are only between a half to 1.5" acre plots but I thought I'd try my atv/tractor sprayer this year to save some time. I just didn't want to ruin all my plants since I don't have a row planter yet but I did over seed some to hopefully take care of what does off. I like trying new things each year planting so I guess I'll just see how it does. Thank you again for your help.
We really enjoy your videos. Do you know where i could buy a planter like yours? Also the cost?
Best place to find one would probably be Facebook Marketplace, I have seen them on there for around $500
Did you put in any plot screening? I see that big shooting house and was wondering how you get to it without spooking any deer on the way in and out.
We built that box blind a few years ago thinking we were going to hunt there a lot. Since then we on average probably hunt in it 2 times a year LOL. Even if we had screening I think it would still be hard to get out because the door and steps and kinda noisy. If we hunt out of it, it will probably be during the late season on a one and done sit. I like hunting from the ground blind better anyways. You can hide it a lot better and you don’t need to climb down, you can just sneak out the back.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 I just started putting one up I built then disassembled. It took me months of figure to find a spot I can get in and out of without much chance of spooking deer. I still will probably only hunt it during our flintlock season or if I take a kid out. I'll have to check to make sure it's quiet too. Glad you mentioned that.
They look cool and are fun to build and hunt from but they aren’t practical in high pressure hunting areas.
What are you spraying the beans and corn with
Glyphosate
I need that planter
Get one, they are only around $400-$500 on Facebook market place
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 I'm south of buffalo ny can't find one out here...if you do they are at least 1000
They are definitely the cheapest option for 2 row planters. And work great pulling with an atv. Regularly check for new ones that are cheap. The one we used in this video was my grandpa’s planter. But my dad found one for $400 this past spring so now we have one at home for our backyard plots.
Have you ever planted soybeans and corn in the same field if not you think you might try it sometime or one row corn and one row soybeans with planter
I actually did a small test area in our other big food plot with corn in one row and beans in the other. I guess you will see that in an upcoming video.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 I've done it the last couple of years and have had good luck take care
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 try broadcasting soybeans and row planting corn is how I do it
That sounds like it would work pretty good. I was also thinking about drilling the beans one way at 38 in rows. And then drilling the corn at 38 in rows the other way creating a checkerboard effect. Last year when we planted all our corn at 38 in there was some light getting in and some weeds grew back. I think the beans will get enough sunlight and help surpress the weeds.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 great talking with you love your videos
you look just like ted from @The Hunting Public
LOL. Someone commented on that on one of my shed hunting videos this year. I guess we do look kinda similar
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 great video btw man love your stuff
Have you started your mock scrape yet?
Yes, I set up a few new ones this spring a few videos back.