2021 food plots

[Chancegriffis]

Alright guys, I have a topic to discuss. Food plots. Name your county, why you’re planting this year, method of planting and type of crop. I myself will be attempting my first season of planting RR beans and standing corn on a few pieces this year and am just curious to see others plots and ideas so that I can potentially improve mine over time! I have filled and tested soil at both plot sites on both pieces and are right about perfect. A total of 14 acres is what I’ll be planting this year.

 

[at1010]

I won't add much here as I blow off enough steam and take up bandwidth on the other threads.

My only word of advice is if you are planting corn - corn loves N. Unless you have reason to suspect that the fields were previously loaded with legumes pumping N into the soil, that will now be terminated and make them bio-available to the corn, don't skip on your fertilizer application, specifically UREA. Beans are not too hard to grow and RR beans can make an average guy look like a pro- I've planted them and they even made me look like I knew what the hell I was doing...I didn't haha.

If you are planting 14 acres, I am thinking you might have a drill or row planter? For deer plots, I would not be scared to drill/plant/broadcast right into standing beans come SEPT with a grain/brassica mix. Corn would be more tricky but if you had a way to broadcast into the corn - that would be awesome.

Good luck, and happy planting.

 

[Chancegriffis]

I won't add much here as I blow off enough steam and take up bandwidth on the other threads.

My only word of advice is if you are planting corn - corn loves N. Unless you have reason to suspect that the fields were previously loaded with legumes pumping N into the soil, that will now be terminated and make them bio-available to the corn, don't skip on your fertilizer application, specifically UREA. Beans are not too hard to grow and RR beans can make an average guy look like a pro- I've planted them and they even made me look like I knew what the hell I was doing...I didn't haha.

If you are planting 14 acres, I am thinking you might have a drill or row planter? For deer plots, I would not be scared to drill/plant/broadcast right into standing beans come SEPT with a grain/brassica mix. Corn would be more tricky but if you had a way to broadcast into the corn - that would be awesome.

Good luck, and happy planting.

I do have access to the drill and that’s what I will be using! This year is going to be my experimental year and I plan on just seeing how each piece of ground reacts to what I feed it when it shows me I need it. Will keep posting updates, here.

 

[bowhunter1023]

I'm in SE Ohio and plant food plots as much for the fun of it as I do for the benefit of it. My plots barely matter to our deer given the available ag and browse within our general area. But I love the process and the expense is nominal compared to my other hobbies, so it's well worth the return I get from the whole ordeal. I plant via all methods from frost seeding, to no-till/poor man's style, to walk-behind tiller, to 55hp tractor with 60" box tiller. It just depends on the size and location of the plot.

I frost seeded Whitetail Institute Imperial Clover in late-February on an established clover plot that's near the end of it's life. I'll spray for grasses and broadleaf in the next 2-4 weeks and if it doesn't come around, it'll get tilled under and reestablished in mid-May.

I'll be planting corn in our big creek bottom plot using a walk-behind single row planter. Going for 18 rows, 100 yards long for the first time ever. It's a former turnip, then clover plot, that didn't get mowed last year. I may mow it short and plant corn no-till style and see how it goes. Still undecided in that regard.

I have two more creek bottom plots that get annuals and I use a walk-behind tiller. I planted Frigid Forage Autumn Quick Plot last year with great results, but I may shift to a mix heavier on the cereal grains. I have time to decide, but it'll definitely lean towards the oats/rye end of things than brassica/turnip end of annual mixes.

I have some switchgrass to plant too. Although not a food plot, same process. I'll do that in May.

 

[Chancegriffis]

I'm in SE Ohio and plant food plots as much for the fun of it as I do for the benefit of it. My plots barely matter to our deer given the available ag and browse within our general area. But I love the process and the expense is nominal compared to my other hobbies, so it's well worth the return I get from the whole ordeal. I plant via all methods from frost seeding, to no-till/poor man's style, to walk-behind tiller, to 55hp tractor with 60" box tiller. It just depends on the size and location of the plot.

I frost seeded Whitetail Institute Imperial Clover in late-February on an established clover plot that's near the end of it's life. I'll spray for grasses and broadleaf in the next 2-4 weeks and if it doesn't come around, it'll get tilled under and reestablished in mid-May.

I'll be planting corn in our big creek bottom plot using a walk-behind single row planter. Going for 18 rows, 100 yards long for the first time ever. It's a former turnip, then clover plot, that didn't get mowed last year. I may mow it short and plant corn no-till style and see how it goes. Still undecided in that regard.

I have two more creek bottom plots that get annuals and I use a walk-behind tiller. I planted Frigid Forage Autumn Quick Plot last year with great results, but I may shift to a mix heavier on the cereal grains. I have time to decide, but it'll definitely lean towards the oats/rye end of things than brassica/turnip end of annual mixes.

I have some switchgrass to plant too. Although not a food plot, same process. I'll do that in May.

Sounds like you have your hands full in the upcoming month or so lol

 

[Hedgelj]

I'll be organ grinder spreading clover and switch grass in one location and then a few smaller spots in gonna roundup and then do a clover/buckwheat mix. Come August the buckwheat spots will be roundup'd and a brassica mix added.

All merit seed stuff currently, southern Ashland county.

 

[bowhunter1023]

Sounds like you have your hands full in the upcoming month or so lol

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