How To Take Your Corn Food Plots To The Next Level
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2023
- Inter-seeding corn is a common practice for farmers. They use these methods to feed their cattle once the corn has been harvested. This process is no different, other than we are feeding deer rather than cattle! Corn is an awesome product but it can’t be the only food you offer. Use these tips and tricks to increase your food plots pulling power and longevity.
I plant 3 to 4 acres of corn to provide cover and food. I leave it all winter as well.
It's made a huge difference where the deer will now hit my clover plots by the woods . They wouldn't normally cross open field to get to my food plots as well. The security / cover it provides has made a huge impact.
I grow double rows of corn @ 4' approx spacing in my perennial plot
I live in the Northeast and I no till planted the 115 day corn. I dont care about how many bushels per acre. Yet it grew amazing .
No till planting is the way to go. I spray and kill everything off and fertilize when i plant and once again after it sprouts up. A 50lb bag cost me 265.00. One bag plants roughly 3.5 acres..
what’s the process of no till? I planted my first corn plot this year. Split a 1 acre plot with half brasica and half corn doing about 7 rows mainly for the purpose of screening for the brassica. When i purchased my seed i didn’t really have much direction as in to what to use for fertilizer or what to do. I ended up having to use a hand rototiller and the grass sprouted up right away. I was told to spread 19-19-19 on it when it was about knee height but i’m not sure if it’s even going to be useful
The idea of mixing or adding food plot mix in the rows of corn is interesting...
It’s worked great! We added a lot of tonnage and diversity to our corn plots. Can’t wait to continue this in the future.
@@brenon_whitetail_partners I'm in Fulton county Ny. I own 60 acres, 3/4 fields and rest in woods. My problem is that all my neighbors are Amish. They are nice neighbors but terrible for the environment. They shoot any and everything brown. They don't care if it's fawns. They like hunting posted property too. My Amish neighbor has 72 Grandchildren and counting. That's a ton of tags and hunters in a small area. I do what I can to provide security and food for the deer but as you know deer travel, especially the Bucks..
Great video keep them coming
curious to know if the inter row planting will stunt your corn growth ? Especially a seed like a brassica which is a large plant and bulb ? I could see clover being an idea but looking to hunt over it November/December it could possibly be under snow ?
The mix worked very well. We did not see any negative affects on corn growth. The deer are hammering it at the moment and we plan to continue doing this in the future.
Can you share the mix of seeds you are using to inter-seed?
Iron clay cowpeas 3lbs/AC
Crimson clover 5lbs/AC
Purple top turnip 1lb/AC
Rapeseed 1lb/AC
Buckwheat 3lbs/AC
Chicory 1lb/AC
How do you keep the weeds out
We sprayed it right before planting the interseed mix. That suppressed the weeds long enough to allow the interseed mix to grow and shade out any other weed seeds. We saw some weeds come back but not enough to affect the corn growth.