Never understood harrowing up natural food to plant food that won’t last. You’d be surprised what grows naturally and has more nutrients than anything planted. And it’s a heck of a lot cheaper, lol. There’s not a month that there is something available for wildlife. I could understand maybe a fall plot when food sources are scarce, but never during the Spring. I’m guessing you don’t have many deer? If you did, that plot would never get above ankle high if that.

Broadcast and drag/cultipack?

I’m planting plots for two landowners, my goal is to have the spring plots finished by May 1. Got them sprayed, fertilized and limed. Just need to till and seed.

Good luck hope the plot germinates nicely

The best disked and seeded trail I’ve ever seen! Have you thought about putting a pop up blind next to the big woodpile on the right?

Never understood harrowing up natural food to plant food that won’t last. You’d be surprised what grows naturally and has more nutrients than anything planted. And it’s a heck of a lot cheaper, lol. There’s not a month that there is something available for wildlife. I could understand maybe a fall plot when food sources are scarce, but never during the Spring. I’m guessing you don’t have many deer? If you did, that plot would never get above ankle high if that.

I'm in this boat too. For the amount of money and time spent growing a temporary food source the same amount of time with little to no cost could be spent improving what you already have. I also gotta wonder how effective they are in AG country. I have corn, soy and alfalfa fields not to mention apple orchards all around me.

Spending a day in the woods with a chain saw is much cheaper and quicker than buying a tractor, implements, seed and soil amendments.

Naw, he just wasted a bunch of time planting that mix but..., he knows best.

Two B&C and 150’s and 140” 8pts on natural food sources. And yeah, we hold deer. In fact we hold so many deer we have to make it a rule each person take a minimum of 5 does.
Guess different areas require different practices. We’d rather invest in fertilizer to help our native crops and trees vs harrowing them up. It wasn’t until I started hunting at this particular place that I learned all nature can provide. There are times throughout the year that even the supplemental feeding gets ignored for native crops. We only feed the quail every 4 weeks during the Summer months. Too much food out there.
I guess if you don’t have any food, then you have to plant something. Although I wonder how they ever survived before that.
Dove I can see planting a plot for.
Ducks, just find the natural food source.
I hate field turkeys, lol. Killed very few on a field, unless you consider a burn as a field. I prefer the hardwoods but do kill them in the pine woods. My largest spurred to date came from a swamp that he never left until I carried him out.

Got the ground worked up yesterday. Pelletized lime and seed down today right before a 30 minute rain . Mixed sections on Kale , turnips, red ear and lidino clover. Strip of rape , rye, and sugar beets in the middle. Put sunflowers around entire outer perimeter.

Two B&C and 150’s and 140” 8pts on natural food sources. And yeah, we hold deer. In fact we hold so many deer we have to make it a rule each person take a minimum of 5 does.
Guess different areas require different practices. We’d rather invest in fertilizer to help our native crops and trees vs harrowing them up. It wasn’t until I started hunting at this particular place that I learned all nature can provide. There are times throughout the year that even the supplemental feeding gets ignored for native crops. We only feed the quail every 4 weeks during the Summer months. Too much food out there.
I guess if you don’t have any food, then you have to plant something. Although I wonder how they ever survived before that.
Dove I can see planting a plot for.
Ducks, just find the natural food source.
I hate field turkeys, lol. Killed very few on a field, unless you consider a burn as a field. I prefer the hardwoods but do kill them in the pine woods. My largest spurred to date came from a swamp that he never left until I carried him out.

… I like to find trails with fresh sign coming out of cover … get that wind right and sit there close… sometimes the trails end at a food plot… sometimes a dropping oak or a corn feeder…. in any event it’s meat in the freezer and money saved lol