Summer Food Plots doing great - pics
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: OFFHNTN
23-Jul-18
Looks great Pat!
From: Medicinemann
23-Jul-18
The deer won't be going hungry this Fall, that's for sure.....
From: drycreek
24-Jul-18
All of mine burned up. Yours look damn good though Pat. I think I need a drink.......
From: bfisherman11
24-Jul-18
Pat, how do the deer like that Blackhawk? I have never heard of that clover.
From: APauls
24-Jul-18
Very impressive. The enjoyment you get out of that must be awesome. Congrats!
From: t-roy
24-Jul-18
Looks great! Why sweet corn vs conventional corn, Pat?
From: Charlie Rehor
24-Jul-18
I think I recognize that Soybean field:) Looks great!
From: Joey Ward
24-Jul-18
Wow! Lookin’ good.
That’s a lot work and it sure looks good. Lookin’ forward to seeing some trail cam pics.
From: Corn bore
25-Jul-18
Grrr!! Your plots look great as usual. Ours flooded out again this year, just got some replanted last weekend. Oh well if they didn't flood they would be corn fields instead of deer cover.
From: Mike-TN
25-Jul-18
Can you discuss what you are seeing for utilization. Particularly interested in the RR alfalfa.
MikeTN
From: Grunter
25-Jul-18
Looking great Pat! You have much better results than me!
From: Mark Watkins
25-Jul-18
Pat,
Plots are looking fantastic! Like it that you are trying a bunch of new crops for plots!
In regards to the AG Lime, I assume you will spread it in the spring and work it into the soil then?
Mark
From: Steve Leffler
25-Jul-18
Being hit hard
Being hit hard
My Real world soybeans appear to be standing up to intense grazing pressure. I planted them as an experiment and figured if they were all consumed over the summer I would just put in a fall plot of brassicas. This is VT so we dont have huge deer numbers but I am cautiously optimistic that this plot might survive till fall. Lots of the plants have flowers now so they are at least trying to make beans.
From: Glunker
25-Jul-18
Pat, Surprised to hear you are doing corn after your comments several years ago. I too tried corn and the stalk cleanup was too much. But if the boss wants sweet corn, what's a guy going to do?
From: Killbuck
01-Aug-18
So what kind of new toy did you get to spread the ag lime??
From: Killbuck
01-Aug-18
Did you wait a year after you burned down your alfalfa plot?
From: wis. bowhunter
05-Aug-18
Hey Pat are you going to clip the trefoil or just let it grow?. I planted some this spring too and I was wondering if it should be clipped occasionally to promote new growth.
From: Grubby
05-Aug-18
I have never done straight trefoil, 25 years ago I saw a lot of ag fields of it here but haven’t recently. How late will the trefoil stay green? I have a healthy mix of it in with one of my clover plots We got some much needed rain last night, hope it wasnt too late.
From: Medicinemann
05-Aug-18
Those drone photos are really cool. Why the gap on the left side of the foodplot?
From: Mark Watkins
05-Aug-18
Plots are looking fantastic!
The roundup up resistant weed epidemic is very real, even to us food plotters! I just had an Ag consultant out providing advice on controlling ragweed, pigweed and now water hemp (first identified in Ottertail County MN last year). I sprayed the water hemp three times in six weeks with roundup and it wouldn't touch it. Had to do a four wheeler spot spraying application with Cobra to save two small fields.......very expensive!
Controlling weeds in food plots would be a great topic (unfortunately) for a future thread.
Mark
From: Charlie Rehor
05-Aug-18
Why the gap on the left side of the foodplot? Maybe the photo is backwards because usually they are on the right:)
From: CAMP DAVID
06-Aug-18
IMOX is the real deal. Works great on clover. Takes care of grass and broad-leaf at the same time.
***Really wish someone would come out with RR clover***
From: Mark Watkins
07-Aug-18
Great to hear on the IMOX...sounds like it is the solution for broadleafs and grass in clover. I assume it is good to use in Alfalfa (as I have non RR alfalfa) as well?
Mark
From: TrapperKayak
07-Aug-18
Nice plots, Pat. And, remember, a fed bear is a dead bear... ;)
From: Letmgrow
21-Aug-18
Great looking food plots! It is surprising that plots have done as well as they have with very little rain. I have a property less than 2 hours straight north of you in Dekalb Junction and the rain has been timely in the last month.
From: algee
22-Aug-18
We have had a perfect growing season here in southeast Wisconsin. I work this plot with my 3foot pull behind rototiller and planted it Horney Buck Tank-a-licious on 8/3 and just check it yesterday looks like its doing well! But any seed should do well if you have your soil in the right condition!!
From: Letmgrow
22-Aug-18
Pat, I used both Real World soybeans and Eagle Brand soybeans when I had my hunting property in Nebraska. When I bought this farm in New York I tried a forage soybean from Preferred Seed Company in Buffalo, NY. They are roundup ready and put on alot of pods for $45 a bag. I just thought I would mention it if guys out there are on a budget, I row plant 6 acres of beans which is about a $300 savings on seed.
From: Grubby
22-Aug-18
This plot of daikon and kale is doing pretty well considering how dry it is.
From: Letmgrow
22-Aug-18
The pods were still tight in January last year but I will follow up later this fall. I archery hunted sorghum fields in Kansas and Nebraska and they got hammered by the deer but there were no soybeans or corn for a few miles. I am curious if the bear will hit that, I am headed to Maine bear hunting next week and they really like the oat fields up there. If it works out for you, I might have to plant some next year. I went with corn this year.
From: sagittarius
23-Aug-18
Grandpa Rays "3x" (alfalfa, ladino clover, and chicory) with soybeans left and right.
https://www.grandparayoutdoors.com/product-page/3x
From: T Mac
26-Aug-18
Sagittarius those plots are beautiful. Nice work!
From: Habitat for Wildlife
27-Aug-18
This weekend planted 5 acres of a clover mix and cover crop.
Sag, that is awesome!
From: Habitat for Wildlife
27-Aug-18
This weekend planted 5 acres of a clover mix and cover crop.
Sag, that is awesome!
From: Stressless
16-Sep-18
Thanks for the time you are putting in, I wrote that on plots, with marginalized souls the alfalfa petered out so I'm going with Birdsfoot Trefoil frost seeding in early '19. Which variety, Empire and European, did you put in? Cant wait get it rolling in '19.
From: X-Master
17-Sep-18
GrandPa Ray's Perennial Clover Mix - frost seeded Mar 17,2018.
