Re: Summer Food Plots
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Looks great Patrick! You need to pinch that turkey killer this winter!!!! His/her days are numbered....along with a family group of coyotes and a few coons. Ive been slouching on predator control on that property. This winter gonna be several Bridger 2s planted.
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Re: Summer Food Plots
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Expensive too. Diesel fuel, herbicide, seed, fertilizer, lime, tractor and implement repairs, and the sweat equity. I love to give back to the wildlife instead of just taking. Plus, I do my best scouting from the seat of my tractor especially when mowing the logging roads and fields.
Its a lot of work but its how I punch my reset button...
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Re: Summer Food Plots
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How do you keep the deer out of the cowpeas till they get are able to stand the grazing pressure ?? Every time I plant them the deer destroy them when they reach about 6 inches tall Dont try to keep them out. The deer bite the top leaves off of many of them then slow their grazing pressure on the peas. The millet grows up fast and covers the bit off pea stems. The millet gets knee high and makes seed heads in about 60 days. The turkey broods come in and stomp the millet down while stripping the seed heads. This exposes the peas that survived the initial deer grazing and here come the deer back to browse them again. By now its about September. Disk it under and plant rye, oats, and clover. This combo works well here in the deep south.
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Re: Summer Food Plots
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Tractors make great deer stands if they see them enough too. Heck I’m out in the woods so much they don’t even pay my truck any attention anymore. If I ever get a new one it’s going to be white too, lol. What is it about a white vehicle? I have a white truck and have noticed that deer and turkeys seem to hold longer than when seeing other color vehicles. They usually let me drive right to them on my Yanmar tractor too.
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Re: Summer Food Plots
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We don't start our food plots till late august. We don't want to feed deer all summer just during the hunting season.
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Re: Summer Food Plots
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07/03/20 06:07 PM
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We don't start our food plots till late august. We don't want to feed deer all summer just during the hunting season. This country is mostly huge tracts of timber...not much agriculture. I call myself giving something back to the deer as southern summers can be a stress period with tougher browse only available. Soils here are sandy and nutrient poor...a lot of browse but none is very nutritious. The plots are hammered, especially by nursing does. Plus summer plantings of millet, grain sorghum, and chufas are geared toward fall turkey feed as all they have here is acorns then. Another reason is I just like getting on my old tractor. Will also plant in the fall, usually late September or first week of October here....rye, oats, clover, etc. These are select kill plots.
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Re: Summer Food Plots
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I can remember when I trapped In SC those boys spent a lot of time and money on doing what your doing. And they dumped tons deer corn along the roads on a daily basis.
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Re: Summer Food Plots
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I can remember when I trapped In SC those boys spent a lot of time and money on doing what your doing. And they dumped tons deer corn along the roads on a daily basis. Yessir...a lot of southern deer management includes spring/summer plantings. Corn and/or deer protein feed is big business. Corn business is huge in the fall during hunting season as most people are too lazy to plant or dont have the equipment so they just buy a bag(s) of corn to hunt over....which is legal here in Ga.
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