4 Best Food Plot Planting Equipment Basics
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- Folks, there is so much that you can efficiently accomplish with just minimal food plot equipment. Throw in a cultipacker and your food plotting efforts can rival the rich folk with the big boy toys -maybe even better! Even down to just a hand held broadcaster and a backpack sprayer, you can accomplish great things. The best food plot planting equipment can range from a couple of hundred dollars to a few thousand, but you do not need tens of thousands of dollars to find beautiful food plots planted in a variety of forages. Here are your 4 best food plot planting basics pieces of equipment that you need this season to plant tour food plot fields of dreams...
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I used to watch all the online deer consultants, heavy on the used to. I don’t waste my time anymore, I watch everyone of your videos, some more than a few times. These are no nonsense straight to the point tips with no gimmicks. And the best part is your help works!!! Thanks again! Ksf
Kevin, you have no idea how much your comments mean to me! Thank YOU so much. I try to just reflect what I do full time and my experience...often 7 days a week. This is stuff I do and help clients with over and over again, and I try to bring that level of experience ..no BS, no fancy descriptive words, no fads...just whitetail strategies that have been proven over decades and that truly work. I appreciate that the message rings true with you and again it means a lot to me! This is one of those comments I read to my wife Diane - she appreciates it too 🙂 So happy this stuff works for you...
Simple stuff and elbow grease is all anybody needs in my opinion to brother. I agree with you. Great video as always. Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to share these great informative videos. Be safe out there GOD BLESS.
"simple stuff and elbow grease"...thanks Randle! I like that saying...may have to borrow it 🙂
Whitetail Habitat Solutions no prob brother use it. My dad always told me that bout the elbow grease lollllllllllllll.
@@randlerichardson5826 sounds like a wise man 🙂
Whitetail Habitat Solutions he certainly was brother.
Start out with a older craftsman garden tractor cheap craftsman disc and backpack sprayer mow the crap down burn it with glyphosate tickle to dirt cast seed by hand and run the disc back over maby 500 bucks total and if you work a perennial plot you can mow it a time or two per season with what you have to keep weeds down
thanks so much for this video, exactly what i'm looking for. I've made all kinds of excuses not to put in food plots. no more. i'm buying this setup and starting next summer!
I really enjoy watching your videos brother. I’ve learned a lot if I can get the chance to put your info into use that is. I ordered shocks for my wheeler they’re wore out. Having to hold off to get things done. Plus it’s so hot here I can’t stand the heat and humidity neither. Be safe out there brother GOD BLESS.
Beem fpllowing your videos but hear little about the west texas area. I have an ATV seeder/spreader, and sprayer, and can purchase a culti packer. What would be a good annual program for this area that has less than 20" of rain on average each year? Looking to start doing a few food plots each spring/fall to improve my hunting spots. This video REALLY spoke volumes because I dont want to invest in large equipment. Would appreciate any advice you can provide. Great stuff....Ty
Killer deal on the grizzly
Is it good to plant clover & brassicas on the same kill plot?
I prefer something other than clover purely because it lacks the volume and attraction mid season in most locations...but for sure, I often split my kill plots in 1/2 with brassica on 1 side and heavy peas, beans and lime oats on the other. I then tip dress the peas, beans and oats with 200#s of rye about 4-5 weeks later and if the brassica failed due to over browsing or drought I spread the rye there too.
Jeff,
Great comments...doing any food plot with any equipment...the key key is spending the time and getting the job done. Each time you put in food plots you learn from your mistakes. After more than 20 yrs., we are still learning from your experience and suggestions. The buckwheat is a few inches already and coming strong with all the rain.
Thanks for all you have done for us, and do for sportsmen in general!!!!!
Bob
You are very welcome Bob and thank you! I appreciate how hard you have worked on your plan and I believe you are inspiration on here to other clients who may not realize just how much work it takes...but the rewards are so sweet. I love hearing about how things are going! This is what I want you to do this year...I hope that it makes sense?
I plant my normal crops into the buckwheat...I split my plots and I would like you to as well. This year my personal and what I would recommend to you, will be to broadcast into the standing buckwheat 100#s of peas per acre on one 1/2, combined with 50#s oats around 8/1. Of course it is not a bad thing to use your drill! I will follow up on that 1/2 alone with 200#s of rye roughly labor day, just broadcast over the top at that point. On the other half I will use a straight brassica blend, seeded at the same time as the oats and peas on the other 1/2. I will use no rye on that 1/2. After I seed I crush the buckwheat with the cultipacker. Buckwheat and soybeans are the only seed varieties you can effectively do this with...maybe iron clay peas. Buckwheat is perfect tho because the deer don't eat it as much as soybeans during the summer so it is a great smother crop for weed suppression. If weeds are present within the buckwheat I spray gly...gly also keeps the buckwheat from popping back up and shading out food plot forage germination.
In the spring I broadcast into the rye (on one 1/2) and into the open ground brassica area on the other 1/2. I like to cut my brassica blend in 1/2 and make up that half by adding 7-8#s of tillage radish into the blend during that 8/1 broadcasting.
I spread the buckwheat at 50#s per acre between 7-8 weeks from the time I expect to plant my Fall plots. That timing will determine what I do either rye and any Spring weeds. For example if the rye is 18" high I will broadcast buckwheat and mow, or crush and kill with the cultipacker. I don't have a brush hog...so that means crush and spray. If we have a late spring and the rye is only a foot high like this year...I broadcast and spray.
This is the best method (buckwheat/Fall combo planting) for limiting chemicals while still being able to use high quality plants with small to medium equipment, but you still have to spray at least once per year or your efforts will be severely hampered.
So many food plotters are trying to not use chemicals with small to medium sized equipment and it isn't practical or effective. Kind of a fad right now based on a lot of inexperienced advice...
Great video, do you ever mow your plots after they get 10-12” tall to help keep weeds down? Particularly brassicas?
Thank you...I do not
Will a lawn roller work as well as a cultipacker?
Yes it will...although I love my 6' wide Packermaxx!
Let me know if you want me to ship some of this Tn heat up your way. For the next two weeks shipping is free lolllllllllllllllllllllll. Great video my friend keep on rolling GOD BLESS.
Hey bud just got home we installed 2 110 gal water holes coming along slowly also gonna bulldoze for food plot 3 rd wk in July love this video
That's all great to hear Paul...really good 🙂 Love to hear that things are moving along...
Hi, I love your content. For a split plot of brassica and rye, are you spraying the whole thing in Aug or only the brassica half?
Im late to this video, but what arw your thoughts on the Packer Maxx crimper attachment for the roller you are using? Looks like its about $650 to add on. I inherited a Packer Maxx and was thinking of adding their crimper wheel instead of buying a $6000 crimper for the tractor
Great video Jeff...I have a quick question for u...I will be adding forage peas and soybeans to my August planting of rye, oats, radish plot...how critical is it to add innoculant to the seed...will be planting in thu U.P....thank you
Thanks Jim! I have to be honest but it has been many years since I have used inoculant, for better or worse. Make sure to separate your plots...pure brassica (radish,rape,turnip) on one 1/2...the test on the other. Rye needs to be planted 1 month later than peas and beans...light oats (50#s or less per acre) can be planted early with peas and beans. Make sure to plant a AT LEAST 100#s per acre of peas...200#s per acre of rye around Labor Day.
Here is a similar recommendation I gave to a client today...
I am planting my Fall crops into standing buckwheat thisbyear. I split my plots and I would like you to as well. This year my personal and what I would recommend to you, will be to broadcast into the standing buckwheat 100#s of peas per acre on one 1/2, combined with 50#s oats around 8/1. Of course it is not a bad thing to use your drill! I will follow up on that 1/2 alone with 200#s of rye roughly labor day, just broadcast over the top at that point. On the other half I will use a straight brassica blend, seeded at the same time as the oats and peas on the other 1/2. I will use no rye on that 1/2. After I seed I crush the buckwheat with the cultipacker. Buckwheat and soybeans are the only seed varieties you can effectively do this with...maybe iron clay peas. Buckwheat is perfect tho because the deer don't eat it as much as soybeans during the summer so it is a great smother crop for weed suppression. If weeds are present within the buckwheat I spray gly...gly also keeps the buckwheat from popping back up and shading out food plot forage germination.
In the spring I broadcast into the rye (on one 1/2) and into the open ground brassica area on the other 1/2. I like to cut my brassica blend in 1/2 and make up that half by adding 7-8#s of tillage radish into the blend during that 8/1 broadcasting.
I spread the buckwheat at 50#s per acre between 7-8 weeks from the time I expect to plant my Fall plots. That timing will determine what I do either rye and any Spring weeds. For example if the rye is 18" high I will broadcast buckwheat and mow, or crush and kill with the cultipacker. I don't have a brush hog...so that means crush and spray. If we have a late spring and the rye is only a foot high like this year...I broadcast and spray.
This is the best method (buckwheat/Fall combo planting) for limiting chemicals while still being able to use high quality plants with small to medium equipment, but you still have to spray at least once per year or your efforts will be severely hampered.
So many food plotters are trying to not use chemicals with small to medium sized equipment and it isn't practical or effective. Kind of a fad right now based on a lot of inexperienced advice...
Thanks Jeff...I have used John Komp’s brassica mix in the past...and it’s great but where I hunt in the U.P. their is no ag...so they get pounded...so I thought the rye, peas, soybeans,oats, radish, red clover would handle more grazing....I never planted soybeans before and the deer have never seen them in my area....I do your method of planting more rye on top a few weeks later after initial planting...works great...thanks again.
Sounds great Jim...I would actually layboff the beans only because they will get hammered more than anything else...and make everything else get more hammered for planting them. I had a good bean crop get browsed to the ground within frosted out buckwheat in June in the UP...probably 2005. Crazy! They didn't last a couple of days after the buckwheat was gone. That was late June...
Good luck this year!
Thanks Jeff...more peas it is
What kind of cutipacker is that?
You look like you need some of this Tn heat. The heat index here today was in the triple digits. Sunday it was 103 degrees Fahrenheit heat index. It’s so humid I’ve tried hog hunting at night but the skeeters eat me alive.
Will a roller work in lieu of a cultipacker?
For buckwheat yes
Hey Jeff I’ve been watching your videos for many years and Im thinking about purchasing packermax cultipacker. I also just purchased some of your seed. I live in Georgia. I’m getting ready to plant so if I understand you correctly after planting. Four weeks later spread my cereal grain. Knock the buckwheat over. Then spray? Also. How important is it to spray after knocking down? I don’t have a sprayer but I can purchase one. Just didn’t know if I’m to late to spray. The season starts next month. But I do own a tractor and a atv.
Hi Robert I can't wait for you to plant those seeds! I can't stand weeds and I like to break down the buckwheat quickly so it doesn't hinder germination...I like to find that perfect balance. So I spray and it serves a duel purpose. Check out the link in today's video for the sprayers I have been using this year...I especially like the 10' boom on my ATV 😊
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Good luck to you this season!!
Finally! I welcome all of the tips you have for this. I will be planting my first ever plots in Texas this year using minimal equipment. A backpack sprayer, handheld broadcaster, and a lawn roller. Praying for success.
That sounds great Ben...you can really get so much accomplished with very little equipment...multiple ways! Enjoy...sounds like you have all of the most important equipment covered...although you may appreciate an ATV and ATV sprayer if you can find one 🙂
How much does that cultipacker cost??? Never mind I see the number!,....I’ll call,.
Drake...the ATV models are $525 and $625, which is a great price! I have a junk metal one I bought for $600 and I wasted my money greatly. Broke in the 1st 100 yards. BTW, I have that one for sale...repaired, $500? Lol. Ha...seriously wouldn't sell that thing to any enemy (if I had one) for $200.
Call Lincoln if you have any questions, but here is their website: www.packermaxx.com/buy-now
Lincoln's personal cell # is 616-550-5779
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thanks for giving this information!!!!
@@robertmarut1784 you are very welcome Robert!
Jeff, any feedback or comments on the Packer Maxx?
Man, I LOVE IT! I have an old doubler Mckormick (I think) double 6' that I had cut to a single back in 2001. Someone stole it. Then a King Kutter...fixed it 3 times and have it away. Then the Packermaxx!! Wow, I wish I had this 20 years ago. It is an incredibly solid design and feel lucky to have one ☺️ By far the best bang for the cultipacker buck! Extremely pleased and can highly recommend...try calling Lincoln at 616-550-5779 if you need one! Great guy and he is happy to help
Thanks! Did you choose to fill with water or sand?
So i have 3ft rye grain standing in my plot from last fall could i seed and cut it? If so can i do it with clover or just stick to rye. I did frost seed clover in march but it is sparse. If possible i was hoping to stay away from gly?
Hi John, the rye will be too thick for the clover at this point...even spraying alone there would be too much rye debris to seed into. If you could immediately disc or till into the soil that would be great. Rye shouldn't be planted until labor day.
Seeding heavily peas and beans into it now and mowing over it could work. Depends on the amount of weeds in the stand of rye...of the seed get good seed to soil contact or not.
Tough call without being there, but discing or tilling would probably be your safest bet, after cutting it...
Thanks....
@@johnoblak9631 you are welcome John I hope that it helps! What you don't want is that seed head to develop, you mow or disc it in during early August Brassica planting time, and then the rye seed germinated, comes up with your Brassica and outcompetes it. Rye should also be planted around Labor day. If just opting for rye you can till or disc labor day timing and enjoy free seed.
Jeff, you mentioned using two quarts of glyphosate per acre. Is that glyphosate concentrate or mixed with water?
That's 41% common Glyphosate concentration per acre. I typically use about 12.5 gallons per acre of total water/gly mix. The easiest thing to do is to figure your sprayer coverage rate of gallons per acre at a certain speed (I use 8mph), and then add the mix to your tank and go spray.
Check this sprayer vid George...hope that it helps!
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Only channel I watch the ads on 😀
Ha...seriously you don't have to do that 🙂 But I have watched a few I like lately! The Mehindra Roxar ads are kind of cool, ha
Jeff, I have priced the Packer Maxx vs a flat lawn roller with a similar build. TSC sells them lawn rollers much cheaper than Packer Maxx. Before I spend the money on a Packer Maxx what’s the disadvantage of buying a tow behind lawn roller? Also, thanks for all you do. Much appreciated. Looking forward to buying your seed blends this year.
How big of a 4wheeler is necessary?
Man that is a GREAT question! Actually a 400cc 4x4 is probably OK...especially with power steering and water in the cultipacker instead of sand. Mine is a 700cc Yamaha Grizzly...2007 I think. Paid about $3500 used of course. Weigh it down on the front and I helps a lot. Pulling thru heavy sand/fluffed up soil could be tough if it begins to plow. BUT, for crushing buckwheat you could probably just use a 350cc 4x4. Rolls real nice...
Thank you!
@@LimbShady you are welcome!
I use a kawasaki bayou 250 or 300 atv
Spray with weed killer wait a 2 weeks then mow it with a trail mower I bought for 150 dollars.
After that I disk it with an old brinly disk and a craftsman spike harrow that I have less than 100 dollars in both. Usually go over the ground 2-3 passes with this combo. 2 75 lb tractor weights on the disk and on hard ground that will give me about 3/4s of an inch loose soil.
Spread my seed with an old 3 point electric seeder I modified to fit on the front of the atv that I paid 50 dollars for then run over it with my yard roller I had given to me for hauling off some junk for my neighbor.
My wife 😍 usually helps and with the 2 atvs we can cover a lot of ground in a day.
We usually put in 5 1/4 acre food plots
Jeff, I’m always concerned of using too much glyphosate; at 4:45 you mentioned post-emergent. What does that mean? Also, once you spray does it affect future growth of anything? I’m afraid it will affect my plot crop.
Hi Ben, as soon as Glyphosate hits the ground it is nutralized. There is not residual. It only kills when plants are in full leaf and have already emerged - "post emergence". For example you can soak a small tree or bush before it fully buds out and it will not kill it...it has to be full leaf, and then it will kill. You can soak your seeds with it...it will not kill, they have to be emerged and at full leaf. If you add water from a creek that has soil particles, the gly will not work. It will not effect future growth from anything after you spray, other than what has already emerged. It will not stay in soil and kill later plantings. It will not harm seeds. Been using it since 99, a lot. In lots of different ways. But again it is a post emergent. 2-4D is a post emergent broadleaf-only killer. Simazine or atrazine is a pre emergent killer. You can soak growth that has already emerged and it won't kill it. 2-4D has a residual of about 2 weeks in it. Meaning if you spray and then immediately plant beans, buckwheat, peas, clover...it will kill what comes up within that 2 weeks because it has a residual.... glyphosate does not. Simazine and Atrazine stays in the ground for up to 60 days.
I hope that helps Ben...I personally believe the Round-up scare is overblown, which is why every at and discount tractor store still sells it...why most US farmers still use it...and why we still readily consume food that was grown with it.
What's crazy is the majority of online social media folks that are shying away from it, have very little experience with it.
Thanks Jeff.. that really helps... I will spray away without fear now . I was concerned the residual would kill my plot. Not the case.
By the way, do you mix 4 oz / 1 gallon of water or more?
@@benpena2832 I hope this helps you Ben! Think amount per acre per gallons needed to cover that acre. Check this vid out...
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I mix 4 quarts of gly per 25 gallons on my ATV sprayer at 8 mph to kill 2 acres. Maybe your rate is 15 gallons to spread on 1 acre....maybe 10 gallons per 1 acre, but you use 2 quarts in that 10 or 15 gallons just the same.
@@benpena2832 you will be all good Ben 🙂
Thanks for another great video. I take it you prefer the v shaped cultipacker wheel then? You see a lot of other food plotting equipment with the notched wheels. I'm wondering what difference you have seen?
Thanks Steve and you are welcome! I actually have seen a very big difference either way. I love long broad shaped Vs. sometimes those cutters are very thin and seed can either get jammed in too deep (rape,turnip,radish,clover,chicory,switch) or not into the ground enough. These broad Vs allow seed to trickle into the center of the V, and it is a more gentle, but heavy push. The Packermaxx HD weighs 450#s with water...650#s with sand. That is VERY heavy for the width.
Hope that makes sense! I like heavy and a broad V a lot more than skinny, lighter and with thin cutting plates/teeth
Just made my first food plot this season. 40 yrs of hunting and I decided to give it a shot, ATV with a Fimco Sprayer a homemade Thatching Rake and a Groundhog Disk for the ATV.
Sprayed weeds and grass 3' tall, came back 3 weeks later and drug the rake for 3-5 hrs at a time for 2 days.
Came back 2 weeks later and did the same raking for 1 day. Broke ground the following day and spread 100 lbs of Forage Oats and 50 lbs Fall Blend on about 1/2- 3/4 acre in the woods.
Offshore right now can't wait to get home and see the results
Hey Jeff, I got a new piece of land in NY acre of open field that has never been planted before. This past summer that field was 5ft high of weeds. I have an atv, Backpack sprayer, and earthway spreader. What should I do? Mow in the spring? Or just spray and once i get a full kill plant buckwheat?
I was just thinking Jeff should make a video on equipment basics... Then I saw it in the bar to the right XD
What is the MFG of the cultipacker that can be used as a crimper. You mentioned 400 lb filled with sand?? Thank you
Just starting out with food plots already have the quad, sprayer,and a pull behind seeder but not able to get bigger equipment to most spots here in Illinois I burnt off the fields they grew back like crazy what should I use to spray these fields to kill it off to seed if I don’t have the disc or tiller?
I dig your knowledge. I also challenge you to build organic food plots.
Thank you Curtis and you are welcome! Believe me I would if I could. No chemicals is kind of the "in" thing...but unfortunately really not practical for nearly all food plotters. It severely limits you for what you plant and it is nearly impossible to plant quality forages that actually work to help your herd and hunt. It is kind of a fad right now by a lot of folks online who have very little practical knowledge about food plotting...or experience that is. If I couldn't plant food plots on private land with chemicals I would honestly just purely hunt public land. We had a lease for 4 years we just dropped this year...not totally the reason...but the fact that we couldn't use chemicals made food plotting a waste of time with limited equipment. It sounds good on paper and so eco friendly but it is not practical for 99% of food plotters. I stand for opposite of just feel good practices...I crave effective results per resources spent.
I am not ashamed to use them 🙂 And both my herd management, the herd and my hunting success is better off for it. After analyzing and then prescribing food plot programs for nearly 900 clients in 25 states and then doing it myself since 95...that is what I have experienced. Over and over again. Sorry to sound so harsh, and I think it is important to limit chemicals when you can, but conserving soil, soil moisture, limited tillage, erosion control, building soil and soil nutrients, quality forages and quality herds based in those quality forages in the Fall...are all goals I want to accomplish with or without chemicals. So much to balance...not just chemical use. Just like the farmers around here who are my neighbors...the bulk of them use chemicals and understand the big picture.
The Summer buckwheat/Fall quality food combo is a great option-maybe the best for limiting chemicals AND allowing food plotters to efficiently plant high powered, small foodnplots. BUT, you still want to control weeds either once or twice per year. When you do not use chemicals at all, even with that combo...your efforts can lead to some pretty poor plots that really don't have enough power or efficiency to help during the Fall. It's tough and without chemicals food plots can be a waste of time...I've seen that okay out true in every way that you can plant a plot - for decades.
I'm with you on limiting chemicals, but it just isn't practical unless using big tractors, drills and crimpers. Even then you are very limited for forage varieties. For example if a neighbor of mine was using that system for 20 acres of food plots next door on 200 acres, I feel I could control the daylight movement with chemicals and 3 acres of plots on my land. There just wouldn't be enough diversity next door...I could throw the deer on their land after dark. So far, far less fuel, thousands of dollars less in fertilizer and seed costs, and tens of thousands less needed in equipment...with much higher results. Oh...and a LOT less time spent. It's a balance of all...but high powered and small
can often be worth several times larger and average. And so much less resources of time and money spent. That's what I work with my clients a lot on...the most bang for their resources spent. Chemicals are NOT the only concern or balance to weigh. So many resources and levels of effectiveness or efficiency to consider.
Jeff, I see you are using a few different sprayers here. Reading their website, the 2 nozzle says the coverage is 7 feet and the 3 nozzle says 36 feet. Is this what you've experienced? Can you fine tune the 3 nozzle to spray a shorter width?
Awesome video this is exactly what I needed to see for sandy middle ga. So keep it sprayed and limed. After a good spraying I can plant buckwheat in the summer. If they hammer it I can overseed. If it’s 3 foot tall by the time the fall plots are gonna be ready smash it with that cultipacker and seed in rye. One question can you get buckwheat and rye roundup ready so I could kill the weeds everyone in a while
When you spray 3 times did you have drag over the food plot spot get the dead weeds and grass off? So you get good seed to soil contact
Any opinion on the Fimco ATV mounted sprayer vs the Fimco tow behind sprayer? Are there any obvious pro or cons?
Great question! I really like the front mount ATV spreader. You can watch your seed being spread and the tow behind is extremely tippy on all but the best of extremely level surfaces. I have a tow behind I have used once...that was enough ☺️
Whitetail Habitat Solutions thanks for the reply. What’s your thought about the toe behind sprayers? Same issue?
You are very welcome...same issues for sure! Not a fan at all AND you can be a lot more maneuverable by not having to tow something...
Jeff, love the great footage and editing: and most importantly the knowledge you are sharing. Are you still going to use the Genesis as your primary planting method?
Hi Mike thank you very much! I just used the Genesis in 2017...wasn't really a good fit for myself, and most of my readers, viewers and clients. GREAT product tho...just a very narrow range of use as it relates to most food plotters resources. I feel a lot more comfortable sticking to my roots 🙂
I dont have a cultipacker but I have a side by side with hitch and I bought a bad dawg ATV disc that works really well.i use a 4 gallon backpack sprayer and a field and brush mower to clear small food plots on ridge tops between bedding areas and on benches.i only put a couple out a year but they are just kill plots or staging plots.good video jeff.love the tips
Love the video. Have to buy some land then start using your process. I appreciate how you focus on the guys starting out or a moderate budget. We all dont have 100k for equipment.
Thanks Josh and man there is so much that you can do...even rival the rich guys with the big equipment...with low to moderate equipment levels. I stopped using my tractor in 06 and never looked back. My plantings have never suffered for that move either and I hope you find that land so that you can use the methods I talk about! Or at least find some lease land...
And besides, if I had 100k laying around I'd be looking for another piece of ground to buy and just keep using my small equipment 😉
Great stuff as always. I have a 1979 John Deere and my 4 wheeler.CanAm gets into the small places.Getting ready to RIP up small section of logging road.Borders thick 2nd growth timber with small creek .High weeds on other. See big rub line their year after year.Just have to be patient. Thinking of clover and rye.What do ya think?
Thanks D! Clover and rye is a great logging road shaded area choice. Food equals risk to deer tho, make sure it isn't too much...and that you don't have to use that logging road to access the rest of the land. I see a lot of folks seed their access trails and then spook even more deer because it it.
I would actually do heavy oats with clover this year...or layered heavy rye. The oats would die out over the Winter and leave you with clover in the Spring. Or you can just cut, kill or disc up the rye in Spring if you go that route.
I can access through weeds.Its going to be about 60 yards by 8 feet.They already travel that road.Just need to slow them down.Saw a lot of activity on Dec.10th last year.Bucks chasing 1 doe.Didnt shoot..One 2 year old 6 pt.Nice deer.Needs a couple more year.
@@dswish1730 sounds like the perfect spot for one of my hanging vine scrapes 🙂 within bow shot...and a trail cam on it watching all season right in front of your blind...
I'm going to put an X stand20 ft.in a hemlock tree 20 yards from trail.They will be quarrying away. @@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751
Their are grapevines their.I need to cut and hang 1 where I need them to stop.Huge rub tree their already with scrape.Should I just hang it for now?The food plot will scrape the dirt.What should I use on it?Ever calm bedding scent?
Great video, been binge watching. So I have a couple small food plots on my 30 acres. Problem is they are small do to being in the woods. Maybe 60’ x ‘120’. I’ve worked the ground with a GroundHog Max but have damaged my receiver. Seems like the cultipacker would be overkill for my situation? Any advice? Thanks
for sweet feast what level do u put it on the spreader? 1?
Thanks again Jeff for posting all of your videos. I was wondering what your thoughts were on an ATV disc? If you are in favor of them, do you have any recommendations? Thanks and keep up the great work.
Thanks for posting the vid. Very Informative! I have a 26hp tractor and a box blade with 4 scarifiers which I can adjust the height. I was wondering if you have ever used a box blade for tilling up a food plot and if you have, were you satisfied with the job it does? I got 2 acres of pasture I want to convert to food but only have the 1 implement so far
How do you fill that bad boy with sand?
Slowly for sure! Slow pour out of a sand bag...
Jeff, when do you typically plant your buckwheat for the spring/ summertime?
Great tips for the average guy! Thanks Jeff!
You are very welcome Jim...hopefully can help a lot of people plant great plots 🙂
Btw that is 1 acre in size
Gotcha
Hey brother. Great to see another video.
Thanks Randle!
Whitetail Habitat Solutions no prob brother. I’m trying to get goin on a plot ASAP. Had to order shocks for my wheeler today. The shaft is bent on one of the front ones. One of my friends owns a cycle shop here and he found me 4 used ones springs and all for $125.00 dollars. A guy he knows has them at his shop in Albany KY. I’ll have my old Arctic cat in pretty good shape soon. My back and right hip won’t let me walk far anymore and my wheeler comes in handy I know that much be safe out there brother GOD BLESS.
Great Info, thanks. Sharing!
Thanks you are welcome Annie...really appreciate you sharing!
YW!