Food Plots all in..

[G-Man]

After last years bumber crop of hard mast, and knowing the cyclical nature of nut trees. I decided to go with more winter nutrition, 3 fields of corn..3acres,6 acres, and 1 acre. 1 acre of purple top turnips, 1 acres of imperial whitetail clover, 1/2 acre of howden pumpkins(some for halloween:) ) ,1/2 cow peas, and 1 acre of shorgum/cowpeas/sunflower mix. took 3 long days but all in the ground and i'm ready to sit back and watch them grow

[Meat Manager]

Are you using regular grain sorghum or WGF with those peas? I'm planting the WGF/peas combo in a few weeks.

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Edited May 30, 2014 by Meat Manager

[G-Man]

Its a mix from the nwtf..

[Meat Manager]

Its a mix from the nwtf..

I'd assume WGF then...I guess you'll know if it grows as tall as corn.

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[G-Man]

It will never make it that tall deer pull it when its 6-12in tall... damn fuzzy rats with long legs eat everything...

[Meat Manager]

Man I was just feeling envious of your nutritional plots when the landowner of my lease called.

He asked if I "minded" if a farmer friend of his uses the 4 acre empty field at the west boundary that I left out of my lease to plant corn...

I said...uh, yeah, can I hunt over it?

"Oh yeah, just you."

I said that'll be more than fine.

Now my deer have a corn alternative "on" my property as opposed to the adjacent farm lot with all the north boundary wall tree stands.

Moreover I've got nearly 20% of my acreage in corn and 3-5% on 3 smaller interior kill plots. I'm loving those ratios.

Fingers crossed for good weather throughout the growing season!

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Edited May 30, 2014 by Meat Manager

[G-Man]

I started with.an Acre of corn..it lasted.2 Weeks... 9 acres can last 3-5 months which is what i want it for winter food source. Of course that's taking 18- 21 deer off the property a year 10 have to be adult doe... or it wouldn't be enough.

[Meat Manager]

I started with.an Acre of corn..it lasted.2 Weeks... 9 acres can last 3-5 months which is what i want it for winter food source. Of course that's taking 18- 21 deer off the property a year 10 have to be adult doe... or it wouldn't be enough.

Yeah I'm not even sure if I'll be on this property again next year so I'm only looking into winter as far as hunting season goes.

Like I said there is hundreds of acres of ag around so they'll stay fed...hopefully a few will stay put on my property through the season.

Let me know if you ever need any help with doe removal, ha.

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Edited May 30, 2014 by Meat Manager

[G-Man]

3 acre corn field... 1 acre field 1/2 sweet corn/ turnips

[landtracdeerhunter]

Good luck on the crops G-Man. May you have bumper deer this year!

[G-Man]

corn up about 2in, last evenings rain will help.

[chiefbkt]

Looking good G-man!