Deer food plot???

Does anyone remember what the amounts of seed were used on a specific size area?

I want to start my plot soon.

Thanks

I have one recipe, but its calling for so much stuff it isn't reasonable sounding.

The area is only about 3/4 of an acre total.

Directions on the bag of seed? I just planted 2 acres of ShotPlot with 5 lbs of seed.

Opps that was 10 lbs. Little under $40.

Sounds like you a journal. Lol I have found I need one as well or I can't remember anything past a week ago and even that get foggy sometimes. Or you could save the packages/bags of seed from the year before but a journal will tell you which ones came up and died right away and which ones produced the desired results. Also a soil test will help to pick the proper plants for your soil and what nutrients you may want to add.

I want to purchase the seed from an elevator. Not purchase the $40/bag inflated product.

But then I would have to remember where I put the journal.

100lbs of wheat per acre is what i usually use. also dont buy seed wheat. i buy feed wheat

I know I'm in the south but I have had great success with 25# of Elbon Rye and 25# wheat per acre. Elbon is the rye that rye whiskey is made from. It has a broad leaf and they really like it. If I'm going to bow hunt early I throw in some cow peas that will come up but they will mow them down at about 2" most will come back a second time but they will get mowed down and that's it for them. If you are allowed to feed I have a killer mixture that has produced good bucks for going on 10 years. They just put us on spin cast feeders this year due to a CWD scare up in the north west part of the state last season.

Wouldn’t hurt to throw in a pound of turnip seed with that wheat. Cost me $4 a pound .

Simplify it, figure out what you want to plant. Go to google and ask: Plant how much turnips per acre, or something similar. answer just now was 3 pounds of turnips per acre. What you planting? Soil test for fertilizer and lime. Probably pell lime at this point. Planted 13 plots the other day.

To each his own , I personally would not go that heavy in a mix with wheat.

spend 100 bucks and plant a half dozen apple trees. let em go and just prune back every couple years to keep them producing or spend a little time and money to spray them and have some apples for you

Little light?
I'd double that.

Read furture

Seeds per acre depend on the size of seed and how it's planted.
Just broadcasting can work fine but you need too add # to the tatal count per acre.

I like your idea,Danny.

me too but i planted 30.no use goin half cocked.also have a 2 acre plot in and will put 2 more 1 acre plots in this week.they are eating sunflower tops and oats like they are goin outta style right now.

If you folks know how to hunt, you don't need food plots...just sayin' .

Got about a dozen chestnuts started about 3 years ago and they're doing ok but don't seem to be gaining much in height. I have unlimited supply of the nuts but it certainly takes a lot of time starting from seed. Maybe benefit the kids more than myself some day. Started persimmons from seed at the same time and I don't know that they've grown 6" in 3 years! I have so many bear that it probably won't work anyway since they'll destroy everything when it starts bearing.

chestnuts will be next for me and i hate bear.

I still like at least 2-3 lbs an acre of rapeseed. For under $5 I think it improves any plot and will last through most winters, break compaction, add organic matter and build soil. When do you want to use plot? Plant accordingly. Do you want it to overwinter or just feed deer in October or January? I like a cool season grass, legume, and brassica mix for my plots. I like diversity so if one species does not do well the others will pick up the slack. Plant accordingly to number of species as a percentage of a full rate - its not rocket science. Most elevators can get you oats, wheat, turnips, peas, and 30 other species.......check out cover crops as well - generally what most plots really are.

For long term plots - check out deer browse favorites and plant those shrubs. And, yes as stated above - apple trees are excellent for deer and probably cant be beat if you can get them established and not eaten or rubbed to death. Around here persimmons make nice trees in archery season before rut generally.

poor soil conditions and weed infestation are the demise of a lot of good seed.its not Ronco-cant set it and forget it and expect good things most times.

TreedaBlackdog: thanks for the variety and thought.

My goto for here for quite a few years has been cereal rye and red clover. Deer are on the rye through fall and winter come spring the clover gets going and I turkey hunt over it. Once the fawns are out and about I will mow off the dead rye and later in the summer I will kill everything off and work it up for replant. I do have a few plots of ladino clover that I dont do anything with other than mow and weed management. I can usually get about 5 -6 years out of them before I have to redo them. I have messed around with turnip and rape through the years but it has been hit and miss with the weather either flooded out or drought.
I have found out it you have the time kill your plot off work it up let the weed sprout back up again and kill it again makes a world of difference on how clean the plot stays. Have had friends spray a plot go in work it up plant and have the most god awful mess of weed you ever seen amazing how long seed survive being buried in the ground for years
J

i worked for a very reputable outfitter that kills alot of big deer and he uses 200lb per acre. there is no reason not to. the more green tonage i have in the winter the better off i am

I just finished a 2 1/2 acre plot.
100 lbs oats
7 lb red top turnip
5 lb rape
Should work out fine.

Has anyone in the south tried CHUFA recently? I remember, years ago, that it was popular in Alabama for both deer and turkey. That was before the wild pig infestation though.

Chufa Seed - 50 Lbs.- https://seedbarn.com/products/chufa...rce=google&utm_medium=smart_campaign

Plant chufa every summer for turkeys. Mature in the fall...turkeys scratch up tubers. Nothing eats the grassy tops...not even deer. Chufas need 100 days to mature and sandy soils so turkeys can scratch them up. Chufas are not for deer. I broadcast chufas on sprayed ( glyphosate) and disked soils at 50 pounds per acre. Chufas do not compete at all with weeds and grasses....so the plot must be sprayed and disked well. I plant them in June down here.

My fall brassica plots are 8-10# total seed per acre. I run multiple varieties to prevent one variety dying off and losing the whole plot. So much information is available online by looking at the commercial seed, see what is in it and recommended seeding / fertilizer rates. Gather your information and then go by seed in bulk at a seed warehouse that carries a good variety. Below is from a local warehouse that carries what I need:

Dave

Lots of suggestions. Thanks

I plant a whitetail clover mix around sections of my warmseason grass as firebreaks around each section. I then plant soybeans heavy in my actual food plots. Tried a lot of different things and I think beans work best. They have been feeding on them bigtime already and will until they mature and then all winter they eat the bean pods. I watched a big doe wrap her tongue around the bottom of the stalk and pull her head up and strip a mouthfull of beans everytime. They love them when it's cold and all the others have been cut by the farmers.

Where is Jbyrd? I don't see any of his posts on this thread.

Or snowy he usually is here to tell everyone how it's a bait plot and we all suck for having one.