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Re: food plot time
[Re: Trapper Dahlgren]
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11/27/22 04:43 AM
11/27/22 04:43 AM
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Willy Firewood
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My experience with the Buck Forage Oats was that the deer loved them. Make sure to use an exclusion cage to protect a small space so you can see the growth. The reason I suggest that is because mine never were more than about 1” tall. The first time I wondered if they were not growing. The cage showed the comparative growth. The deer loved them!
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Re: food plot time
[Re: AJE]
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11/27/22 07:29 AM
11/27/22 07:29 AM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 3,897 Wisconsin
Eagleye
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Do many of you rely on soil testing to help your food plots? I sent out a soil sample for a few areas intially- the information that gets returned is extremely detailed. Right, wrong or indifferent- the agronomy I focus on, is almost solely PH level. I have a couple test kits and prefer the handheld probe type that was actually almost spot on to the lab soil sample PH. For most of my legumes, I usually shoot for PH of 6-7 and I use predominately pelletized lime (albeit more expensive) because I'm doing smaller areas and it acts faster than Ag lime. This year when we logged, we selected the landing areas to serve as future turnarounds for skidding and kill plots- these soils after clearing are extremely fertile- if you think about years of composted leaves on the forest floor... I plan to soil sample those two new locations before spring planting.
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Re: food plot time
[Re: Trapper Dahlgren]
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11/27/22 09:34 AM
11/27/22 09:34 AM
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 16,150 Tennessee
Scuba1
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"color blind Kraut"
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Tennessee
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I did not bother with food plots this year. I did in the last couple years but here the ground is covered in acorns and the deer don't touch whatever I plant.I have tried rape, radishes, winter peas, clover, rye. The rabbits loved it but the deer are into their acorns and here ya can't see the ground for those things and hickory nuts. I could rake up a 5 gallon bucket of acorns without moving two steps. So I guess like kids, if you are ankle deep in sweets, ya aint going to eat that salad.
Let's go Brandon
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Re: food plot time
[Re: Trapper Dahlgren]
#7729494
11/28/22 10:42 PM
11/28/22 10:42 PM
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007 WI - Wisconsin
AJE
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I might try putting in a food plot(s) next year. I need to try to gain an advantage.
Last edited by AJE; 12/15/22 01:17 AM.
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