Best Time To Plant A Food Plot
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2020
- Are you ready to plant a food plot? Make sure to wait a bit and watch this food plot timing video, before throwing your seeds, time and money into the ground. The best time to plant a food plot is not during the traditional time to plant a farm field. Obviously farming is not the same as food plotting, but this is hardly more apparent then when it comes to the best time to plant food plots. Timing is everything, and this directly applies to the future success of your food plots for several reasons...
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Just subscribed....I’m a dad of three boys under four years old. I have a relatively low income. I’m fortunate enough to own 30 acres of hunting property in wooded, central MN. Your philosophy and approach is extremely relevant and helpful to me! Thanks for being real and understanding most land owners and food plotters do not have big acres, big equipment and big bank accounts. Keep it up Jeff!
Wow ! great info. Its a craze right now for sure. Best channel on UA-cam by far. Cant wait each day for more solid info.
Great video. Especially appreciate how you defined when you should consider annuals. Context is everything.
That's why I watch. Unbiased information. Thanks for the videos. Just got my Egyptian Wheat in, next up Buckwheat.
Pulled cards in cams few days ago and using your methods have definitely helped increase numbers over last year when we bought the place. Keep on pumping great content. Also that video yesterday cracked me up and will not get into that situation, Thanks
Great video Jeff. Just got done spraying last week, two new food plots and I’m excited to try your ultimate no till of multiple spraying to try to get some food established planning on planting clover with rye and brassicas on the other Half of the plots. Thanks for the video’s I’ve learned a lot.
Perfect timing for this video! I'm already feeling like I've jumped the gun. I tried to hurry my first spray, and I'm sure it wasn't warm and dry enough...and didn't anywhere near the kill I was hoping for. After watching this, I feel like I can calm down, and wait for better, more effective weather, which we're finally starting to get in upstate NY. We were still getting bits of snow as of this week! Thanks Jeff!
Jeff, I saw your information you have been sharing first hand. I was watching the local doe herd moving through my property and was watching what type of vegetation they were eating. I'm starting to understand a little bit more about new growth, hedge rows and " junk trees". They spent a lot of time at the new growth of the honeysuckle and dogwood tree. Thank you for all of your information you share with us.
Well, you've finally convinced me to not plant 3 of my 4 food plots until late summer starting this year. Although I just planted one plot last week--not for the deer, but for ME. Forage Beans, Sunflowers, and wildlife grain sorghum. I love seeing all the beauty of the plants all summer. Yes, I'll overseed it with a fall blend in late august/early September.
Your videos are just so informative. Hope I can utilize your strategies this year and get some food plots established.
Congrats on your new land you should also look for property in the Catskills lol shout out to Diane happy Mother’s Day great video back home spent few days prepping food plot can’t wait to get back to plant buckwheat as always great video
Good luck in Minnesota...looking forward as to how you are going to transform the land and the journey we all get to be a part of
Thanks a lot Brad! Man we can't wait ☺️ I always look forward to hearing how you do each year too! It is an awesome journey...
Great video as always. I believe you answered a few questions that I was asking myself. Thank you very much.
That's awesome to hear Max, you are very welcome. Thank YOU!
Great vidio this morning. Heh it'll be interesting to follow you and watch the development of your your Minnesota 40 acre project.
I'll bet you re exited. Blessings to you
Thank you very much Norm, we certainly can't wait to bring it to you ☺️ We are so excited! Still working on our small parcels in WI, but our MN parcel will be a lot larger 👍
thank you for all you do !! a friend of mine who hunts our property in north georgia planted ryegrass last fall after i told him to get rye not rye grass . now i am left with trying to figure out how to get rid of it sometime before late summer .
Awesome video Jeff. 2 points - integrity matters & you have it. Thanks for that! Also thanks for reinforcing the fall plot. It really worked for me last year. Didn’t get my target buck, but saw a bunch more than the year before and in broad daylight.
That's great to hear that you saw more Jim...hope that you get him this year ☺️
And that really means a lot that you can appreciate integrity! Seems like so many channels or online content in general surrounds shameless plugs for products...either channels attempting to grow or channels that have already reached a high level. And it shows in their numbers of overall engagement levels...folks don't like it, that's for sure! And neither do I...again, means a lot to me!
Jeff -30 years in uniform taught me this - integrity is a line you can’t cross twice.
I absolutely love your videos. You always say summer food plots are a waste of time. Recently I heard you say this then you added in unless, you are in Texas. I live in Texas have a small deer heard and want to increase my deer numbers. My thoughts are now I want to do some beans or peas this summer. I only have 5 acres of a food plot. I also would really like to have soybeans pod in the winter I tried it once and never got it to the beans.
Welcome to Minnesota u betcha you'll love it
Thanks a lot Greg, u Betcha ☺️ We will!
Great video good tips!
great food plot information.
Thank you!
Happy mothers day Diane. You did an awesome job on the comedy video.You should show your feet like Larry Potterfields wife.You can tell her attitude just by her feet..
Tough to get a handle on weeds in NW WI lately with all this cold weather. Bring on the 70s!!
What and when should i use for a fall food plot in Southwest Georgia?? Thanks for the videos, great info!!!
Jeff, congrats and good luck on the new property. It will be nice to follow the journey as you transform it. Did you move or is it strictly hunting property, and how many acres?
thanks, Bob
I've made enough food plot mistakes to be able to agree with you. Also, in watching your content for over a year now, I've never seen you endorse a product that I haven't seen you already using in your video's including your hunt video's.
Very helpful
As always great video. Im going to take your advice and stay with late summer/fall planting.
Also is there a generic equivalent to Slay herbicide available?
Thanks
Jeff. Awesome. Have all your books and prepping for the no till buckwheat method. I want to plant switchgrass this may- June as well. I have a guy with tiller and drill lined up, but wondered if the buckwheat method will work with switchgrass? Also, do you fertilize the buckwheat planting?
Jeff been watching your channel for a few years now. Since I really started getting into food plotting. I live in Central Illinois. Big ag country. Where I hunt has plenty of food in summer as you’ve said. My plot I have established in clover is in thick timber. And not a lot of sunlight. So my only choice was to frost seed. To get germination before the canopy closed in on me. My question is, what could I try planting during that later part of summer for a fall food source? Since the canopy doesn’t clear off till late October.
Thanks for all the info Jeff👍 what type of trail cameras do you use ?
Have you ever had a problem with frogs/toads dying in your water holes? Apparently, they didn’t want to climb my sticks and now stunk it up. Great content by the way!
Great info always
Thank you very much Steve!
Thank you for all the great info. I have a question I hope you can answer. I'm currently clearing about an acre for a food plot. The woods are mixed trees from soft woods, maples, red and white oaks, etc. Im cutting down about a dozen poplars to open up a nice area for my plot. My question is, should I move all the cut tree tops around the perimeter of my plot? I was going to cut up all the wood but there isn't a ton of cover and was thinking of making funnels with all the tree tops to give cover and direct deer travels routes to get to my plot. Or do I just run it all thru a chipper? Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jeff
What’s up Jeff...good vid...out of curiosity do u ever soil sample clients or your own plots ?
More great video jeff. I was going to kill everything in my future food plot now with some roundup or something before I plant it in late july what do you suggest.
You edit in some really nice action shots
That would be my editor/videographer, Dylan Lenz. Been working with Dylan for 4 years now...we have created over 500 videos together and I am lucky to work with him! Will let him know 👍
The fact that Iowa didn’t get a mention is CRAZY😂
Too few hunters 😁🤷♂️
I live in northern ny on the tug hill plateau and I just cleared out a 3/4 plot out back next to my beaver pond. I plan on planting a mix of brassicas oats and winter peas along with turnips. Would August be my best time to plant?
Jeff, I'm putting my first no till food plot in on my property in mid Michigan this summer. I'm looking to spray glyphosate soon once it warms up a bit to clear out my 1/2 acre field. What brand of glyphosate do you use? What percentage/ mixture? How much would you use for 1/2 acre?
Jeff, what are you planting on your food plot trails? I have a nice bed of clover. They are about 5' wide. Roughly .75 - 1 acre in total spread across 4 different trails through switchgrass. Is this too much summer food to attract does? I'm trying really trim down on summer foods -- my place can easily become a fawn-hotel!
Jeff, do you have any videos addressing multipurpose property? We have a 56 acre parcel on a lake that we would like to duck hunt, is there a way to make sure this doesn't negatively impact our success with deer hunting? Thanks.
Can you help me with something and make it a video topic I love what you are doing but I have one question when it comes to watering holes for deer. Does the water ever get stagnant and or do you have to change the water out once or twice a year so that the water does not get stagnant? or do you just leave them alone entirely? thanks I hope you answer this question and it would be insightful if it was a video too. Thanks for your videos they help us a lot keep up the great work and the content.
Jeff, not completely on topic but we frost seeded switch grass. Is it too late in MN to spray for weed/grass control. worried about ground temp. In the twin cities area. Thanks
How long does it normally take for switchgrass to establish? I frost seeded back in lat March. I'm in southern Wisconsin
Jeff I bought johns fall forage blend and whitetail radishes do I need to plant the radishes 2-4 weeks before the forage blend? Thanks Jeff
Jeff can you plant radish and turnips with clover?
Why do you think red clover never comes up as a topic to plant with rye? Seems like a good companion to balance out soil needs and feed deer/Turkey early in the spring. Is it because most of the states he talks about are so far north. I’m in southern Missouri. I assume red clover would get frosted out pretty early up north. Seems like it would be good to toss out when layering rye in southern MO. Was considering doing this year, that’s why I’m asking.
Hi there it’s mid October here and I have gotten a giant late start on my food plot is it to late to use the throw and grow plot or just hold off on it and save it for next season?
I have very sandy soil where I want to plant a foot plot. What we be the best way to go at it to build the soil up so I can get a good plot
When do recommend planting buckwheat for your no till system
I have planted a chicory clover plot. It has quite a few weeds and some grass that has grown up with it what can I spray to kill grass and weeds but not the clover and chicory and and how far established do they need to be that the spray won't harm it
When you say 2 quarts per acre of glyphosate, what strength glyphosate do you use? And the same question for 2-4D?
I plant oats wheat cow peas fist of sept frost seed clover. Should I mow the fields this spring or let them go till late summer
Do you add lime at the same time of fertilizer and fall planting seed after crushing buckwheat?
Where in Minnesota are you located?? Welcome to the neighbourhood.
Have you been to SC? I'd like a little help, please.
Hmmm, sounds like my family... Thousands upon thousands spent on deer habitat, food plots, etc but cant seem to figure out you cant drive to every food plot EVERYDAY ON SXS DURING DEER SEASON...
Do you have a pod cast ?
Hey what's the face mask for on the 4 Wheeler are you spreading Corona? I gotta plant that shit 🤣🤣🤣
Wouldn't dare plant much here..27degrees and snowing yesterday. Saw a buck Thursday with 6 inches of bone and branching out. Saw 4 buck that morning. But that 1 stood out.Hr might be a nice 8 I saw last fall.Found 1 of his sheds.Pretty sure he was 3 last year.Deffinately putting in oats and clover this year.50 acres of corn in front of my house.But no greens.Are you getting pictures of target buck.Are you keeping the property you are standing on??
Good morning D! Crazy these temps right now...love s ring the bucks right now, I have 1 that is outside his ears with his growth...already 8pts showing! Definately beginning to see target bucks...
Also keeping the local properties that I have been hunting in for years...will be only 45 minutes from our new home ☺️
When is the best to plant in may ?
Weird random question...why would some of my brassicas I planted last fall currently be greening up and acting like they are coming back to life??
I git some bucks with wide racks and some with tall tight racks why is that in your opinion
jeff, do you have to till in the lime in a no-till food plot. Have fun on your new land.
Spreading powdered or very fine grit lime works extremely well...eventually leaches into the soil. Roughly 1/2 of the 65 tons of bagged lime I have spread throughout the years has not been tilled into the soil. Right NOW is a great time to lime BTW...or right after the buckwheat has been crushed for your late summer plantings...
Who makes that seed spreader
Could you do a visual timeline for food plots on your white board? Give times and names of the seeds or when you start weed killing?
It is definitely on the list! Shooting it tomorrow and will likely get it out this coming week...will include planting tips for each step along the way too.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 awesome! I'm sure it'll help a many young people like myself that doesn't know the right times to spray, plant the cover crop and seed haha but thanks to your recent video I'll hold off this month from planting! Again thank you so much for all the info! Keep doing what you do!
You are very welcome! For a lot of planting dates and details, try searching "ultimate no till" on UA-cam or hashtag the same on Instagram...lots of info on timing, seed rates, when to spray, how long to let the BW grow, etc.
WOW..And I thought I saw something special. Does your new house have wall space for your heads and room for more?Remember you have 5 more coming😉🤔
Ha, he is the only one ☺️ MN buck. It does...still may be not enough room tho, lol.
I need help with my food plots seem like see what I doing wrong
4 months away!! Wow. Jeff I was going to hit the plots and switch one last time with roundup and 2-4d. But... we just had snow again yesterday. I am going to do your smother crop strategy. These are brand new plots here in NW PA. Do you still recommend the June 1st buckwheat planting for up here?
Crazy how fast it will be here! For sure Adam...during that first week of June is perfect for you. I've had to push off my spraying too...a real bummer! Hard to kill stuff when it is cold and not growing aggressively...
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 yea, I have 5 plots I have been prepping since I got the land in December.. lime, turning the old strip job ground with a ground hog max, more lime, frost seed the switch, then got one good spray in around late march, and now it is just kinda stagnant... maybe just spray when I see some growth. Do you think I should turn the soil one more time before putting in the buckwheat?
Where in mn are you buying
What’s your take on salt licks and mineral rocks?
Great spots for summer trail cam pics where legal! That's about it tho...
When is the best time to plant radish and turnips
Hi Tyler it depends on the location, but any time between late July to mid August...just depends on how far north or south you are. Still a few months away...
Do you no til bean/corn/soybeans?
With a no till planter, yes. Beans are also fairly easy to do without a planter
Are you buying land in Houston county?
Winona...just a few miles from Houston.
Rounding up the plots tomorrow and the buckwheat is getting put down last week of May, no til all the way this year!!!
That sounds great JJ! May want to hold off until early June on the Buckwheat depending on where you are at. Make sure to watch the frost levels too...crazy how the buckwheat just gets destroyed overnight with 1 slight frost.
Whitetail Habitat Solutions central Michigan, and I will watch for frost, thanks again!!
Best time to do buckwheat ?
Joel Stanhope June 1st!! That’s when he talks about doing it in numerous videos. Then seed into it August 1st, roll over the buckwheat then spray with herbicide and boom your set for hunting season
Anyone make vids like this ? Talking about the southeast?
Hi Ethan...same concepts, just about 4-6 weeks later.
When is the best time to plant a food plot ?
If I push deer out I will not kill pacific bucks
Or have a good, consistent or predictable hunt for anything else...
I will be planting mega plot it has a variety of plants in it that the should like but I will see