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

Spin feeders do hold does - all year. Not so much bucks. Sooner or later, you can catch almost every coon in the woods at a feeder.

I'm all in for food plots.
But that (mix) you planted is a waste of time!
Please post pics in 2 months from the exact same spot as the original pic.
Let's see what comes up

Lime aint gonna do squat without fertilizer.
Kale,sunflowers,turnips need lots. That's a shady environment .
I expect some germination but other then rye/clover, a total waste of time/$.
50$ to the TM discretionary fund from you or me (TMan) members will vote that by July 15, that plot with that mix will look like crap!

But my main point of this post is not to "KILL" deer here . I get more from checking my cams or looking at my phone when my cell cam sends me a pic. BUT if the right one shows up . I'll sit for days in that clearing . Did last season . Bout froze to death last day until I killed the little brother to the one I wanted.....