5 Tips For Better Deer Hunting Food Plots
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Let's face it, great deer herds and hunts are built during the hunting season and not during the Summer. Are your food plots down to the dirt during the heart of the season? Fertility levels and weed control aren't the only considerations for making sure that you create enough food at the right time of the year to produce enough food for adequate deer hunting plots. Offering food plots during the hunting season allows you to give deer nutrition at a time when the local habitat has often been significantly depleted and at a time when whitetails need food plot the most. Here are 5 tips for making sure that your deer hunting food plots have enough volume, this season.
You have no idea how much these videos have changed my perspective and visions on what I want to achieve on wildlife habitat and food plots!
John I greatly appreciate your comments...you have no idea! I truly just want to help folks and be a top notch resource, so I thank you for the feedback...
Your knowledge of deer activity and habits is amazing. To link so much together to achieve your goals is simply amazing. Thank you for sharing so much wisdom
Man you are very welcome and you have not idea how much those comments mean to me...thank you! I hope that it all helps you this year
Once again Jeff the information you sharing is top notch. Thank you sir for all you do.
Thanks a lot Doug! I always appreciate your comments! I apologize for the late response...been extremely tied up with clients and filming for a few days. Had the guys from Exodus trail cams at the house the last few days for filming and podcasts...a lot more content to come!
Great Info Jeff, Thanks so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge
That's great to hear and you are very welcome, just want to make sure it helps do I always appreciate your feedback 🙂
Another informative video, thanks Jeff! I do have to comment about something. Last year was my first year with a food plot. I ran short on time and had to buy some off the shelf sed a the local TSC. It was a mix of brassicas and winter oats. I did two half acre plots. I have a huge farm field behind me that rotated between corner soy beans every year. Last year was soy beans and the deer tore up my two plots. The plots kept up but I was amazed that the deer really hit the two plots as much as they did with the huge soy bean field very close by. All that to say, you really never know what deer are going to do, it is a very interesting hobby and deer always amaze me with how they react. Thanks again!
You should have your own show on the outdoor channel lol your short informative videos are better than the bs on tv 👍🏻👍🏻 also wondering Jeff.. what would you recommend planting in a plot? Any certain brands or is it better off going to feed store and buying a bunch of different seeds? Thanks
Ha, thank you very much!! Man I wish I had the time for that...maybe some day and I really appreciate it!
As far as what to plant, this video was one of my favorites for covering what I really like to plant and why...let me know what you think!
ua-cam.com/video/ZIXUA4iprWk/v-deo.html
Also try searching 2018 and 2016 best food plot mixes...they will help even further. My videos should be at the top of the UA-cam search...
Whitetail Habitat Solutions thank you, I will check it out 👊🏻
We use a electric fence with beans and let them get full grown and let the deer in just before bow season. Seems to work really good
Taylor Burch don’t the deer just jump the fence,
Carter Larson Nope it’s an illusion the fence is a two layer fence of only three strands. First layer is 20 inches off the ground the second layer is 36” behind that wire and two strands at 10” and 30” it’s just an optical illusion that they can’t judge so they won’t jump it. I have beans that grew out side my fence that were eaten immediately. Inside the fence not a single bean has been touched. I also have a stupid high deer population so if it wasn’t for the fence I couldn’t even grow alfalfa.
Good vid Jeff!
Thanks a lot Dan!
Jeff I'm down here right now in my food plot 😊 I've got 3 really nice buck here with me. with two an three inch nubbins on there head already an there posturing walking side ways with there ears pinned back there fighting not with there heads but they are standing up on there back legs an kicking at each other with their front legs pretty neat to watch
good advice, deer just about annihilated my brassica plot last year before i even got a chance to hunt it, and i even had a spring and fall planting..... thinking about your recommended fall planting mix of oat/winter rye/brassica this year. once again thanks for your videos and realistic advice!
Bought my 1250 pounds of lime from the co-op this morning. Time to get spreading!
Nice...paint the ground! Enjoy 🙂 Always s great feeling when it is on the ground...
I already planted two small plots.
@@williamlasure6301 mine are small too but I don't put them in until August. Should give that lime some time to do work.
@@brandonbirdsill1937 this is my slow time. Planting corn and vegetables in May then haying till September. I usually mow plot September 1 to get them fine tuned for bow season. Not enough time in day
What I’m noticing when I checked my cams yesterday all my deer (including the bucks. Young/mature) come 5:30am-10:45am then return 6:30pm-12am. They hit the protein feeder non stop and travel back and forth to the plot (clover, oats, vetch and chicory) it’s non stop action! With reducing my footprint with the atv the deer are becoming more active in the day light granted it’s not season yet but if I did the pressure now it won’t bite me in the rear later!
Sir, I am a new subscriber. I listen to you talk about blends and such and have just one question. Different seeds require so many pounds per acre. When blending these seeds; let's say peas, beans, and oats do you go by each seeds pound per acre or do you dial them down?
I'm planting a couple smaller kill plots inside of my woods and my cousin is farming the fields planting mostly corn with a soybean foodplot on the edge of the woods. He's giving me the beans for free and leaving a section of standing corn. Should I add anything else to the beans?
I actually wouldn't personally plant soybeans for a kill plot...instead leaving them bare for the Summer so deer don't use them until the Fall. You really want deer off of kill plots until the Fall so that whatever you do plant on them for the Fall has a chance of staying green and productive for the hunting season. Layered Winter rye, peas and oats are a great combo for kill plots...even clover in some southern locations (lower Midwest). The first layer should be planted in August depending on where you are at, but I personally would avoid soybeans for a kill plot....very limited for the season and most small kill plot plantings don't make it into the early season.
Let me know if this makes sense...
ua-cam.com/video/0F5x0Ga9vek/v-deo.html
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 yep that makes sense. Thank you
@@stark_outdoors you are welcome Clayton! Try adding those beans a to a good green blend in August...50#s per acre, 50#s oats, 100#s peas early...too dress with 200#s per acre of winter rye roughly 4-6 weeks later.
Great stuff! You need to be on Pursuit. Hunting industry has ruined hunting with their sell sell tactics and not much instruction. I look forward to your videos.
If I'm trying to build vermont herd up!! And pull them to my property is it good that I planted 2 new plots this year. They also use my ag field until cows take over that part of field
Morn brother.
Morning Randle!
Sir, I would also love to hear you on the topic of Micro Habitat Management Concepts. I was lucky enough to retire early in age from the New Jersey State Police 8 years ago, as such even though I have a part-time retirement job I can still work my habitat almost daily. I have been working my 23 acres for almost 5 years now and consider myself as a Micro-Micro Habitat Manager. Can one do too much in the off season? Cris
When is the best time to make mocked scraps???
Good morning Drake...I really focus on them in June and July. Check out this video I published last year...it should answer a lot of questions!
ua-cam.com/video/pwP1EgEbwLo/v-deo.html
How browse tolerant are brassicas? I fenced a 3/4 acre brassica plot and don’t really know when I should pull the fence
Great video Jeff! If your in a big woods area, northern Mn. How do you not have the deer hit your food plots all night as a destination plot?
Thanks Brian! It is tough. The first step is to have high quality browse cuttings and browse growth in your cover, which diminishes daylight food plot browsing pressure. The 2nd important aspect is to make sure that tour food plots are located to funnel deer off of tour land after they feed in the afternoon. Hopefully the deer are positioned to leave your land after dark. However, it is tough to get them to leave at times in northern settings. I had the benefit of nearby bait piles in November...which was a great help for getting deer off my land during the middle of the night. Often the answer is the need to offer more food plot acreage per acre in the northern wilderness settings, compared to lands that benefit from the compliment of ag settings. This is the same for big wooded parcels anywhere...MO, KY, PA, NY...doesn't matter really if north or south other than southern Midwest settings tend to hold more daylight browse opportunities.
Have you ever used something to keep the deer off your beans (or other plots) in the summer, like a hot zone fence or a deer deterrent?
Hey Jeff what would you suggest for small plot options in Vermont? Something that can possibly hold up through cold fall seasons
I have 97 acres in upstate ny total 60 acres of Ag with the neighboring 30 acres of Ag. Last year I planted An acre of clover on one end and a Brassica mix on the other end of the Property and the deer could care less about it I put cameras in never hunted them 1 time pull the cameras a month ago and they're just passing through. Seems odd to me.
There must be something higher quality they are heading to.
Hell I know how wishful thinking is but if I could afford $25,000 I would buy a property up North in Vanderbilt a 20 acre lot where as I could have my own sanctuary of Deer but it's only wishful thinking
Hey Jeff hope all is well in your neck of the woods I’ve been under the weather a bit had some work done on my teeth OMG the pain hoping the weather holds up for our walk about next week once again GREAT VIDEO
Jeff,
Great info as always. As you know my greatest problem was planting all our plots TOO early, and competing with the Ag fields and having the deer decimate them. This year we will be planting later, as per your recommendations. Have you had a chance to look over my e-mail concerning your recommendations? Back is doing a little better, on the mend.
thanks, Bob
U must not b in vermont. The deer herd is terrible. So we need to suck them in with ag and summer plots. And all the big bucks are satellite bucks. Only the 159lbers hang around