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I have tons of red osier dogwood here in Northern Ny on my property. I only ever have 3 or 4 deer that occasionally winter on my property. I'm not sure if I have so much of it but I don't see hardly any browsing pressure on it. Great video keep them rolling..

Prairie Crab. Right along the edge of your grasslands, handles fire pretty good. They’ll go thru a brick wall to get at the fruit in late summer, early fall. But yea, dogwood is the reigning champ. Sunlight a must.

I mentioned about a year ago that I was hinge cutting diamond willow. I had some success cutting it in the winter. But not enough for me so this spring I'm going to hinge a bunch more when the buds start to swell to see if I get a better success rate. The willow that I hinged successfully is now at deer browse height and is turning into a thick horizontal screen. I think that the taller trees provide little benefit unless the deer can get to tender stuff easy. I have also been cutting my redozier back when it gets to tall. That also invigorates it to push out new tender sprouts. I sure appreciate that you have property so close, so I know if it for you it will work for me! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! God bless you and your family in the new year!

Great information. What type of crab apple tree do you recommend

Love the variety of soil types for these options.

Interesting ... I've got wild plum tree / shrub along with crab apple , Hawthorne , wild grapes , apple trees and unfortunately lots of Buckthorn that I got to illiminate plus autumn olive which may not be so bad ❓ ....ive been planting dogwoods , high bush cranberry amongst others ....also anybody doing Reforestation , I recommend planting White Birches mixed with conifers ...deer tend to leave them alone except for rubbing antlers on , they grow really fast and adds variety .... I think vits counter productive to plant Green Deserts where whole fields are planted to just white spruces .. mix with birches and wildlife shrubs ....balsams are preferable but deer like to eat them when young ....spruces are way over rated for deer habitat in my opinion ....ive planted everything including White Oaks , White Pine too

Hazelnut, service berry, red osier dogwood are my favorites.

I’ve struggled to get plums to grow in Central MN. Controlled weeds and tubed but die off after 2-3 years

I'm in eastern Washington and I'm planning on planting red osier, elderberry, serviceberry, choke cherry, raspberry, rose, hawthorn and, now that I know the deer like it and it's native to my county, Bebb's willow. It's going to cost me a fortune. I hope they're happy. I've got a couple nice wet areas with a lot of alder and aspen. This stuff should do well there. 👍

Great video. Thanks for the shout out.

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Good info. I planted red and gray last year, so far so good. What about dappled willow in northern Wisconsin? I have access to cuttings

Some of my favorites are spectacled alder(tag alder) and hazelnut and ofcourse red osier. Both for browse and nuts.

Appreciate the advice!!! We all want them big 🦌 🦌 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌

You planted a lot of pumpkins and looks like you had good results. I’d say depending on your herd size they are eating appropriately. I do pumpkins also and come November they come back to eat daily. You also planted next to brassicas so they have another food available at that time!

I am gonna do some field but i think i will get lots autumn olive

Very grouseee too!

We planted stine 9808 roundup ready only corn that is reasonably priced on our farm for grain production. For some reason, the deer devoured our corn and let every neighbor’s corn go. What do deer prefer when it comes to corn? Higher brix level? Maybe you can help me understand this but we had high deer damage where the neighbors saw very little. Maybe try that variety. Apparently stine 9808 corn has something the deer really like. Have a great day.

It's always fun experimenting. They don't eat them much by me either.

How far apart do you plant them?

Deer seem to treat them like brassicas in my area and munch on them all winter, digging through the snow for them.

By the 3rd season growing pumpkins for the deer, they ate plants, flowers, and vines like it was deer salad. So plant then again and see if they hit them harder and quicker next year. I actually stopped planting pumpkins for the deer when I couldn't get a single vine to maturity.

Sam, don't give up on pumpkins. Like brassicas, it may take a bit for them to get used to them. For years, I've tried to get people to try them. One thing I never mentioned ( my bad), was not to expect deer to use them as a stand alone food source. More of a midway stopping point before going out to big ag fields. We all like candy but we don't fill up on it. Glad you tried them.

Been doing pumpkins for 6 years. I do several varieties so there’s different pumpkins ripe at different times. 75 hills usually gets me about 250 pumpkins depending on rain. I also start them early at home and transplant them. The deer have never ate the plants.

Did you spray or fertilize or anything to aid in fruiting?

In my experience, planting these in the wild, the animals eat the sprouts and flowers before any fruit can be grown.

I've been wanting to do this for a few years now. My worry would be the deer destroying the plants before they could produce pumpkins. Obviously wasn't the case for you. I will give it a go. Thanks.

If nothing else, take some home to your chickens! They will love you for it

Thanks for the comparison Sam! I planted 2 acres of nutricrave corn on my Nebraska farm - 2 years ago. The reason I won’t do that again is #1 it’s excessively expensive and #2 the stalks were eaten down to essentially stubs by late July. No corn production because of that. I’ve planted standard corn and never had that happen before. I’m not sure what ate it down but that was an unfortunate experience…

I appreciate you taking the time to do the test. Thank you! It would be nice to see an analysis comparison of the two varieties. Typically the Nutri-Crave will have more than double the calories of conventional corn while also being higher in protein and energy. This is a real benefit to the serious land manager who is looking to provide year round nutrition and not just an attraction to hunt over. In the winter when quality food sources are scarce, if a buck eats half a pound of Nutri-Crave he will get more than twice the calories than he would get from conventional corn, as well as higher levels of protein and other nutrients. To be honest, you are probably too far north to see the real benefits, including increased attraction. I am confident that a test south of you in Iowa would yield different results but I understand that you are looking for the best options for your area. Again, thank you for the fair test.

Ain't no way I'm trashing a woods up like that just so deer can get a good night sleep.

Best deer plot corn is the left over $50 bags farmers have for sale on fb marketplace

Good stuff Sam, thanks for the informative video. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Can it be picked and replanted next year..

Thanks for the comparison.

That is how to do a "how to video". Start to finish! Well done. Would putting buck wheat down first for pigweed control and then broadcast in June as you did instead of tilling be a consideration? Obviously, you know what works best for you.

Can we add a cover crop, such as brassica and wheat after ther 45 days with Resicore?

Planted 18 rows of sweet corn 150 yards long and they had every kernel cleaned up by Oct 20, way better then nutracrave just need way more, need a few traps as well to keep the coons out

How’s the different switchgrass varieties holding-up? Especially now with some snow?

How many acres of corn do you plant? Ive been wanting to try corn but my plots are relatively small and iam afraid they will get wiped out.

@3:00 your deer must be different than mine. The whitetail on my property all bed on slopes that are around 45+ degrees.

Nutricrave was not round up ready either? 400 for corn is insanity, one reason I don’t buy from Higgins, way overpriced for similar stuff honestly. I bought his beans once and those didn’t do anything special imho

When did you plant? Both varieties, considering I’m in northern lower mi, so about the same growing season. I’d want the corn to be hit during deer season for sure. Prefer early November actually

Thank you for a great review for the corn up to this time. Could you please give another perspective review in March or April comparing the varieties again. I think it's important to have food throughout the late winter as its impact will be future health/growth potential of deer. They wont be in a deficit starting the new growing season if they've had food through the hard time.