Food Plots...Who Has Some?
 

Specifically in the northeast or North as it is a totally different ball game.

I planted 1 acre of red clover last year. I wanted white but I planted red for a few reasons.
1. the land I planted was forest and the soil was highly acidic so white would have done well.
2. I got a 50lb bag of it for free.
3. didnt have much time to prepare the soil ( I got 80% germination by just broadcasting it)

so this year I want to mix some other stuff with the red that is already planted thats also a prennial that will keep coming back every year. I know with the red clover I'll have to reseed every 3-5 years. as it thins out I will plant it with something permanant like alfafa or a certain type of trefoil.

I just wanted to pick your brains about this thx

I planted a 1/2 acre of pasture grass last fall, just used it as an overseed until the tall fescue comes up. The deer like it, but it really has no value other than to protect the other seed till it germinates this spring.

The place I hunted in Illinois planted a LOT of jumbo Ladino Clover. Down here we mostly just plant Oates and Rye with some clover mixed in....

yeah about 200 acres last year, SOB's always eating my soybeans, but i got my plan for that.....check out my NEW thread in this section........




remember deer are browsers just like goats, so they need something that they love to eat, and anything that soft, leafy and tastes good to them, will attract them..

I have tried many times, the clovers and other mixes are expensive, and the Deer eat them too fast and end up killing them. That means I am trying plots that are too small, so I would need to spend even more money. One of the cheaper, most cost effective things I have done is in a hardwood setting. I plant winter wheat right as the leaves are falling. ground prep is a minimal raking to remove leaf litter and get the seed to the ground. Throw the seed around and kick back and in two weeks it is coming up. at three weeks I start to see some really green "evidence" that the deer have found it, and like it. In a hardwood forrest where nothing else is eddible at ground level, they will keep coming back and the leaves off the trees let the light to the ground to allow the wheat to grow.

Where do you pick up your winter wheat?

I just planted an acre of Quaker boy deer/turkey mix around my pond that was resonably priced at gander mountain. there are a dozen or more of different grasses 9white and red clover, trfoil, alfalfa and a bunch more) and some fertilizer

a 20 pound plastic tub was $30
not bad considering alfafa is $200 per 50 pounds

It hasnt rained since I put it down (sunday)
so I will let you know how I make out

I think I am going to buy another tub and plant some in the woods and see what happens. the good thing is that they are perenials so it will come back next year if it takes off to begin with.

local agway is where I buy my seed, I could if I tried find a better deal, but I like supporting them.

about how much a bag for the winter wheat?

Man GRI $200 a 50# bag for Alfalfa?????? Try this site
Farm Seeds - Corn, Alfalfa & Organic Seed - Elk Mound Seed Company
Their seed is from Canadian stock more winter hardy.

Been having VERY good results with Big Rack Trophy Products food plots clover whitetail antler also from up north and winter hardy. A bit more spendy depending on how many acres you want to plant and for the most part pretty fool proof!!!! A + for me!!

I put down a test plot in Bio-lodgic clover+ and one in the Big Rack ulitimate blend a couple years back and I have seen a huge increase of deer on my property, and of the 2 test plots I only have the bio-lodgic left as the deer have eatin out the Ultimate clover blend

I am laying down 6 acres worth of the Big Rack Trophy Clover & Chicory mix and 2 acres worth of Power Bean from W/I and about 4 acres of the alfalfa grass mix from Elk mound, then another 2 1/2 acres of the Game bird mix... Hoping to REALLY bring in some of the monsters I keep hearing about in my area.

I hope more folks around me just put down the oats and rye!!!!
If they are LUCKY they might see a deer running through their place to get to mine!! :yeah:

Thats Ironic.. I Hunt Princeton Ill And Thats What We Plot.