MONO CROP OR MIXES??? 10X THE FOOD IN UR DEER HUNTING FOOD PLOTS HD 1080p
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- In this video I discuss mono crops or mixes for food plots. Which should we as food plotters use to draw more deer into our plots during the deer hunting season. Mono crops are grown as one plot in the field by itself, typically these plots are corn ,soybeans, sunflowers, clovers, alfalfa, and many more. Mixes are a blend of legumes and grasses with the main benefit that the legumes provide all the nitrogen needed for the grasses and thus reducing the amount of $$ it takes to produce a food plot.
Wes, I totally agree, we tried the spring release system for a few years with little or no success. We currently plant corn and soybeans in the spring and have alfalfa and clover in other areas along with the beans and corn. We plant our fall plots into the corn and beans and spray and till up a few smaller plots in addition. This system has worked well for us and saved us a lot of time and money. We sold our no till this year. Thanks for sharing, we have been doing this a few years and it has been working well for us. Bob
Bob thanks for sharing your experiences with us! I think the mixes system has a place, but I don’t think far and wide it’s the best system for folks! Thanks for watching!
Now we're talking wes this is the info that makes u stand out from the rest. Enjoyed the video thanks
Thank you sir! That really means alot and I really appreciate the support! Glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for watching
Great scientific information as well as actual experiments. Wes, you are the man and we appreciate you! By far the best explanation on why not to use Spring/Summer blends!!
Thanks Nathan I really appreciate the support! You have watched the channel since the very beginning, and I certainly appreciate that very much! Thanks for watching
As always enjoy the videos. I've been doing strictly no till the past 5 years now. I am by no means a farmer or have the background knowledge that you have. I've used a drill and crimper scenario as well as just spraying but never disc this particular field. I'll be the first to tell you that it is extremely hard to combat weeds. That seed bank is no joke. I've had a couple great smother crops and then plant and to my surprise the weeds will pop up in he same rows as the crops. I tried soybeans this year. Sprayed 2 times to kill everything in the field. Fertilize and lime based on a soil test and when I checked it out today there are weeds everywhere again. Good thing it's a monoculture of RR beans. They seem to be really stunted growth wise with the weed competition so hopefully spraying them will free em up. Good luck to ya
Yes sir, roundup should help eliminate most of those weeds, enough weeds and grass out there can definitely stunt the soybeans. But also could be whitetails feeding on them, they love those soybeans and keeping them off is a tough thing to do. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots
Thanks Wes, as always great information! I enjoy your channel and am learning a lot from you. I watch your videos so much that my wife can now do a Wes impersonation of your southern accent :). We live so far north our neighbors are in Canada so there's not any southern drawl up here. Appreciate you Wes!
Hahaha that is absolutely hilarious!!! I’m glad you’re enjoying the videos and finding them helpful! Thanks for watching
Thanks, if I do it, October will be the month
We've seen Great results interseeding our corn. Shut off every 3rd row on the planter. So you end up with 2 rows at 30 inches and then a 60 inch gap before the next 2 rows. We wait till after our first spraying before interseeding our mixes. Usually, corn is about a foot or more tall when we do it. The skip rows open up the canopy enough to grow everything underneath. We up the population on the corn to still give us 30,000 with the other rows shut off. We have average yields over 200 bushel per acre doing it this way.
Matthew, that is fantastic way of doing it, thanks for sharing! What are you interseeding into the corn field? Thanks for watching
Balanced take. Thanks partner.
Yes sir! Thanks for watching
Wes we are on the same page. I’m doing both at separate areas. Mono plots and mixes as well as interseeding into grains.
I think a bunch of plotting is learning. Trial and error. I like the stewardship part of the release program and how it doesn’t have the input costs, but that drill!
I’ve said it before if a manufacturer can come up with a small drill with a price point around 3g they could sell them like crazy!
For now I will continue to learn while experimenting with new blends and keeping places for the old standby corn and bean plots. I also want to experiment with winter peas and pumpkins/gourds/melons. Good video my friend!
Yes I completely agree, trial and error is one of the best ways to learn what works in different parts of the country. Drills are so crazy expensive, I’d love to own one but can’t justify that huge price tag….Maybe one day! Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots!
There are mixes that work, but not most, I like Rotating right crop at the right time and alway keep the soil covered.
Yes sir, a good rotation is absolutely key in not only helping the soil, but also helping control that weeds that are so difficult to control! Thanks for watching
Another great video sir thank you
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
Makes a lot of sense, I’m going to have to give it a try in my sorghum plot this fall
Thanks for watching, glad you found the video helpful!
Never even thought about it this way,,Definitely makes good sense to me. Thanks for the info! Im gonna try this in my farm Been struggling over last 3 years to get a good program going. But of course dry weather hasn’t helped either🤦♂️
A drought can make food plots a major headache, that’s another reason I like my system, you’ve got a large window to plant in the spring and the fall. Thanks for watching
Utilizing the "Release Process" with mixes is fraught with potential failure on many different levels. Last year for my KY farm, I sprayed the field three times throughout the spring/summer to eliminate all weeds and grasses. Then for the fall planting, I no till drilled cereal grain and it came in clean and looked great. For year two, you have to wait until the "Dough" stage to crimp which, according to the mighty Google is the end of June in Kentucky. I booked my vacation for the end of June and traveled down to my farm to discover that I was past the dough stage and already had hardened seed heads on the grain. It turns out the plant cycle of cereal grain is dependent on many things, including rain, for which we had a lot of and served to move up the life cycle of the grain. I'm not sure of the best method to address this situation since I will soon have an early crop of volunteer cereal grain.
Yes sir, wheat in KY usually matures the first 2 weeks in June, I’d wager cereal rye would be very similar. I wished I knew what to tell you, but it’s going to be loaded with cereal rye seed for this fall, I’ve never been in that situation to shed any light on the subject. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots!
Thanks Wes, perfect topic for the question I have. I’m planting alfalfa this year, I was thinking about over seeding tillage radish into it late September or early October, your thoughts
I’ve never done that before, I don’t know why it wouldn’t work. But i always seed a pure stand of alfalfa and never mix anything with it. Tillage radish planted early could shade the alfalfa out would be my only concern. Alfalfa won’t do a ton that first fall, it like many others is sending roots out and then come early spring it will hit the ground running. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots.
Great topic Wes! I’m doing my my beans and corn this year just like you said bc of previous videos. 1 question for you is what do you think about sorghum? Attractive? Good food source?
I think Sorgum, like most plots has its place….to me it’s a decent replacement for corn when for whatever reason that farm or area isn’t capable of raising corn. Sorghum is extremely drought tolerant, and will typically make when corn doesn’t. But I’ve never seen sorghum have the pulling power corn does. Thanks for watching, and good luck with the plots
@@DIYfoodplotpro thanks for the info, I just didn’t know much about it. Keep doing what your doin man!
I want to add crimson clover this fall. I'm in Northern Ny. When should I plant ? My normal fall food plots are normally planted the last week of July
Generally 6-8 weeks before a frost…..but I experimented with varying planting dates last year and had pretty good results. I planted as late as 2-3 weeks before the frost and had decent results! Thanks for watching and good luck
I’m wanting to start a perennial clover plot in a quarter acre food plot that I currently have buckwheat and summer annual clovers in. It has no weeds and great seed to soil contact opportunities. Should I just broadcast my perennial clovers in it this fall?
Yes as long as you have great seed to soil contact, you can broadcast before a good rain event and should be good to go! Thanks for watching
My prized, food plot perimeter pumpkin vines were all eaten this year 😢
It’s hard to keep a whitetail out of a plot if they want it bad enough. Maybe you can get something in there equally as good! Thanks for watching
Wes can I get the info on coming to KY on a hunt at your outfit plz ? Thx buddy
Hey Scott! Thanks for reaching out about hunting with me! Currently I am booked completely full for the 2024 season! I will know what openings I have for the 2025 season in February. Thanks
@@DIYfoodplotproI’ll stay in touch . I wanna plan a year out . Thank you buddy . 💪🏽
Sounds great! Thanks you!