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Just wondering if anyone else plants food plots and what do you use and what success have you had from them. This is the first year I've gone all out. I've done little patches in years past but with so much area to cover and hunters coming in for Bow hunting thought I'd try on a larger scale.

We got a John Deer 4020 (100hp) and a good 12 foot disc to help out this year and with the 4-wheeler and a 3 foot disc for it it seemed to make things go much faster

Now ph and fert are at the required levels, weeds and grass has been killed off twice and into the ground we went with several 1/4 acre plots on our 3200 acre lease.

We did Whitetail Institute Power plant in 2 locations, 1- 1/4 acre Alfa-Rack, 2 - 1/4 acre Chicory plus, 1 - 1/4 acre Chic Magnet, 2 - 1/4 of the new Double Cross.

For the Evolved Harvest we did 3 sites of the Turnip/Rape blend with the new chic/clover mixture and this is the first time we used this product so this is a new test site for us.

We have our Winter sites ready all disced up and ready for a quick go over and then plant this August for our late Bow and Gun seasons.

We have sites set up that are 12 feet wide X 60 feet long and these are cut pathes through out the lease in major travel areas. We will be planting White Tail Institute Winter Greens and a new product we found and will be trying for the first time from Fridgid forage in MN call Big & Beasty which is a turnips and brassicas blend along with sugar beets, carrots, rape, winter peas.

So if you have any suggestions fire away. If you used any of the above what results did you have ?? And I'll be keeping a log and trail-cam pictures of the spots for input to the companies and our hunters !!!

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Geeezzz. Sounds like we all should be asking you for advice!

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...yeah, we plant some...............6 of the 20 biggest bow kills from our county came off my place here in Georgia............we have perennial plots and annual ones...........Durrana and Patriot clover, and roundup ready alfalfa in the perennials....aschynomene, iron clay peas, and soybeans in the annual ones..............cereal grains in the annual winter plots..........not a huge deer for up there where you live..........but I killed a 160 2 years ago that was only 4 1/2 years old........food plots and other habitat improvement helps............jmo

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......ps--we don't buy any of that "hyped in a sack with a huge buck on it" stuff.........you can go to a feed store and get the same stuff in the bag for about half the cost............again, ......jmo...............

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For the Past 6 years at Our Shooting Preserve we buy alot of Different seeds left over from Last season from our local Farmers CoOp .. We Mix all the Seed together .. Their will be Turnips, Sweet Corn, Green Beans, Asorgum, Russian Fox Tail, Beets, Radish and what ever they have thats about $0.15 per pound.

This is all planted in 4 plots that are in rough rows at 10 acres ea..

Heck around Aug. its like going to the Produce Section at the Store .. lol Early spring Turnips are everywhere ..

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Just wondering if anyone else plants food plots and what do you use and what success have you had from them. This is the first year I've gone all out. I've done little patches in years past but with so much area to cover and hunters coming in for Bow hunting thought I'd try on a larger scale.

We got a John Deer 4020 (100hp) and a good 12 foot disc to help out this year and with the 4-wheeler and a 3 foot disc for it it seemed to make things go much faster

Now ph and fert are at the required levels, weeds and grass has been killed off twice and into the ground we went with several 1/4 acre plots on our 3200 acre lease.

We did Whitetail Institute Power plant in 2 locations, 1- 1/4 acre Alfa-Rack, 2 - 1/4 acre Chicory plus, 1 - 1/4 acre Chic Magnet, 2 - 1/4 of the new Double Cross.

For the Evolved Harvest we did 3 sites of the Turnip/Rape blend with the new chic/clover mixture and this is the first time we used this product so this is a new test site for us.

We have our Winter sites ready all disced up and ready for a quick go over and then plant this August for our late Bow and Gun seasons.

We have sites set up that are 12 feet wide X 60 feet long and these are cut pathes through out the lease in major travel areas. We will be planting White Tail Institute Winter Greens and a new product we found and will be trying for the first time from Fridgid forage in MN call Big & Beasty which is a turnips and brassicas blend along with sugar beets, carrots, rape, winter peas.

So if you have any suggestions fire away. If you used any of the above what results did you have ?? And I'll be keeping a log and trail-cam pictures of the spots for input to the companies and our hunters !!!

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Location: Camden,NC
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Dave....LMAO I've got proof of the deer on the wall hehehehehe but you just coon hunted my spots and never saw the wall !!!

I'm looking at different seeds for next year without the names !! Probelm is when you have over 2000 acres planted in corn and beans hey...you got to have something different to keep them on your place or at least keep them coming to the dinner table.

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If you have a spot where you can leave soy beans stand more the better. They feed on them all summer when the beans start turning yellow they will leave them, but I will have clover or just have planted some winter wheat close to them, they will be back when it start getting cold great for late season hunting. When it gets cold deer we walk through any kind of food plot to get to standing beans. There super high on protein eagle seed company beans work the best they can stand heavy feeding and snow fall they grow super tall.

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I planted a patch of winter greens 2 years ago-beautiful plants that stayed green most of the winter and not a thing ate any of them The deer do love my imperial whitetail clover though! I always try to keep a patch of field corn standing through the winter for deer and coon and think that is one of the best things to do. good luck!

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We do plots in the fall, we keep it pretty simple. Elbon rye (grain not rye grass), Purple top turnips, winter wheat, bob oats and austrian winter peas.

We disc, lime in the Spring and fertilize and just broadcast seed in the fall.

Checkout the forums on this link. The best food plotting and deer management site on the web.

http://qdma.com/

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I want to come hunting with you now! That's a lot of work you've put forward, very nice.
I won a bag from Biologic last year. I have to wait until August to plant it, so it'll be a nice little project for me. I just plan to plant it on an old clear logging trail, see what happens.

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Eric, very nice site and I ordered one of there books and did watch a vidio. The folks at Whitetail Institute and Frigid Forgae have been very helpful and provided info that I would not have thought of, well maybe after I was done !!!

Corn and Beans up here are everywhere, and I mean everywhere !!! Thousands of Thousands of acres are planted in Beans and CORN !! So it is there for them and some farmers are very late getting it out and it does effect our hunting some.

I was trying to provide a different menu so to speak for our deer through the summer and into the fall. Then plots just for fall hunting and even to take the deer through the winter.

I'll have to figure out how to post pictures one day and can provide some pictures of our deer harvested and of the plots as they develope.

The articles I've read for fall polts many used the Big-N-Beasty mix from Frigid Forgae www.frigidforage.com and it has a mix of lots of late season items. We'll see how it does this year !!

Thanks for the input

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Eric, very nice site and I ordered one of there books and did watch a vidio. The folks at Whitetail Institute and Frigid Forgae have been very helpful and provided info that I would not have thought of, well maybe after I was done !!!

Corn and Beans up here are everywhere, and I mean everywhere !!! Thousands of Thousands of acres are planted in Beans and CORN !! So it is there for them and some farmers are very late getting it out and it does effect our hunting some.

I was trying to provide a different menu so to speak for our deer through the summer and into the fall. Then plots just for fall hunting and even to take the deer through the winter.

I'll have to figure out how to post pictures one day and can provide some pictures of our deer harvested and of the plots as they develope.

The articles I've read for fall polts many used the Big-N-Beasty mix from Frigid Forgae www.frigidforage.com and it has a mix of lots of late season items. We'll see how it does this year !!

Thanks for the input

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I hunt in clark county IL several years ago I tried food plots with turnips & rapes deer are suppose to love them after a heavey frost ,cause they then turn into sugar ,but I put them out for 2 years they never touch them I also had a buddy that hunts in IL he said the same thing happen to him anybody elese had this promblem with IL deer. I KNOW THE SOUTHERN STATES DEER LOVE THEM. From that exprience, I mainly stick to clover chickory mix,winter wheat & soybeans Anybody have any other suggestion for IL deer.

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Well I'm in JoDaviess County 8 miles from Wis and 25 miles from IA and the folks around here swear by the Turnips and Beets !!

Our farming is so large up in this area that corn and beans are everywhere, along with alfalfa in the pastures just looking for something different to bring to the dinner table

I'll be taking pictures plus the trail cams (Good ole Moultrie trail cams) I'll be tracking and keeping record of deer sightings so have to learn how to post them on here !!!

I'll be interested in how the different fields do and which ones the deer take to and the ones they don't use at all.

This is a learning year and we have a few out of state hunters coming in this year so hope they score and take some nice ones while they are here.

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