Sure Fire Clover Hunting Plot Build | Almost Done!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- It's done! Here is the complete strategy for our latest and greatest clover hunting plot build. We mowed the switchgrass down, installed the stand location, created a mock scrape, chainsawed a pinch point and added a trail camera. All that's needed now is to kill the weeds and broadcast the clover. We use setting 1.25 on the Earth way model 2750 for the clover blend.
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Awesome video Jeff! I really enjoy watching the whole process come together. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot Peter! We are really enjoying creating bedding here type of videos...really appreciate your feedback!
Great vid! Cutting out new plots now after knee surgery Hopfully get healed up and get them cleared rest of way.
I hope you can heal up soon! We have been very blessed without having a bunch of snow around here lately. Great time to get outside and work if you are healthy enough to do so!
Great location!!!
It's such a cool spot Brian! We've had a lot of deer already walking thru that choke point too.
Thanks Jeff
You are welcome! 😊
I found 2 yesterday.One was from last year.I stepped on it in the snow,and the other was very small on the edge of a hay field.Really slow here.Last year I had 20 at this time.6 this year🤷🏻Only gets better from here.Havent been in the woods yet.
We are really looking forward to end of Feb early March!
Can’t wait to do some frost seeding.Did some last year and it came out beautiful.
It works really well...extremely well! You just have to make sure that all weeds have been killed in the plot prior to seeding. We will hit the weeds twice on this plot and then seed roughly mid to late May. It will never be tilled either, so we don't pull up any more weed seeds.
I have a few sicamore leaves on one edge.The trees are huge next to the creek.The best way to get rid of them is to cut the trees.
For sure D! We are s ring more antlers dropping, btw
Love watching the videos. I have a 1 acre clover plot. And its pretty thin right now from the drought. I think im gona frost seed alpha into it just to give the deer a variety. I also have a kill plot about .3 acre wich is rye this yr was brassicas last yr wich seems to work but wonder if i should put it to clover
I really like the idea of the hunting plot being in clover, and the larger plot being in a more div RS, high volume planting. Brassica on one 1/2, a green blend in the other...something that will give you more tonnage in November. Then the little clover plot just becomes a pass-thru for deer to get to the larger plot.
I really appreciate you watching so consistently! Thank YOU!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 ok that makes sense. There deer usually pass through there anyways
I’m new to food plots. Should I clear and cut the area now/soon? I planned on brush hogging it and then mowing it with ride on. Cutting back trees/limbs etc.
I would actually begin doing that right now...we sure have 😊
I'm confused, does the Spring Perennial Drought Attack have the clovers (+annual rye) or does one need to purchase a couple of different mixes to achieve the end result?
Hi John, they are combined to give the planting a built in nurse crop 😊 The annual rye grass is small enough to mix well for broadcasting the clover too. Then, when you mow the field for the first time in late June or July, you suppress the grass before it eventually dies. Or if you spray with clethodim to take care of other grasses, it takes out the rye grass. Of course you would only be spraying if the stand of clover was doing really well...
I wish i had property and equipment
You can do a LOT with a chainsaw, cheap ATV, ATV sprayer, handheld Earthway Model 2750 broadcaster and a cultipacker....the land is the really expensive part! Unless you lease 😉
Could you make a switch grass failure video. In steps to correct switch grass plantings that are out completed or didnt take well
Hi Cameron! One thing to look for is to try and identify switchgrass growing every 10-12" or so. If you can see that, then you can grow it very well. I would mow when the weeds and switch have emerged in the spring and are at least a foot high. Then wait until the switch is 15-18" high and hit with 1.5 pints per acre of 2-4D for broadleafs. That will be roughly 4-6 weeks after spring green up. Then hit with 5 ounces of Quincloric per acre to kill foxtail at least 2-3 weeks after the 2-4D, if needed.
Really...that's it. Switchgrass rarely if ever fails if weeds are taken care of...
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thank you for that!
I saw a close up of you hanging the mock scrapes but did I miss where you put it? Did you put it like in the middle of the bowtie of the condensed movement?
Hi Chuck! Right in front of the stand...middle of the plot. I think about at 22 yards or so
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thanks!!
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Jeff, i am looking to have 3 smaller plots on an 18 acre parcel. There are numerous ag fields around me, but my parcel and neighboring parcel have more of some thicker cover. The size of the plots are 1/4 acre and two .10th of an acre. What do you suggest I plant? Any clover or no? SE WI.
After cutting a new area for food plots...Is it worth the extra time to stack and burn the brush piles, and remove the log piles? Or will they not deter mature bucks?
will deer nip silver maple trees like 2 years old trees and is there any native grasses that deer will eat
There is no native grass deer will eat, and silver maples will be nipped when young...but not highly preferred like Red Maple.
Ever have to deal with moss? My clover does OK but would be better with no moss. Moss was there already under the previous prickly ash colony.
I dealt with it in the UP of MI. I do know the higher the oh climbed and the more I rotated crops with the soil improving, the more the oiss went away. Also, exposure to sun...full sun.
Do you all like liquid lime?
I never use it...it is a great product tho!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 good to know, going to try it this year, plus the fertilizer they have.
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Wasnt long ago you didnt like clover lol
Have always liked clover...for hunting plots only. Been planting, combining it, mixing with brassica since the late 90s, first planting it in 95, actually 😉 Have also been instructing clients to plant it for 2 decades, for small hunting plots...IF they have larger holding plots n went. For example of e don't plant it in our WI plots because we don't have the space. Even my articles 15-20 years ago I. The Quality Whitetails magazine from the QDMA/NDA I talked about all of my clover plot research and combo rotational plantings.
I'm sorry you've been misinformed 😉
In most cases not a very good food plot if that's all you have...but definitely has its place. Like I say in the videos...less than 3 acres out of 18 acres, here in MN. 0 out of 3.25 acres in WI.
@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 sorry I struck a nerve just so use to you going on rants about clients building deer factories on summer food for so long I watch all your stuff and like all of it even in the off season I like what you do hope and pray I can have my own place big enough to play the game the same as you do I have freinds that could have it so good instead worry about all the wrong stuff
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Yes...for sure! Good morning Kurt!