My Buddy put in a food plot.

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My Buddy put in a food plot.

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My Buddy in wood county Wi put in a food plot this year. He planted rye and hopes to see lots of deer by September. His neighbor had all the equipment to do it. Looks pretty nice!
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Riflemanz wrote:
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My Buddy in wood county Wi put in a food plot this year. He planted rye and hopes to see lots of deer by September. His neighbor had all the equipment to do it. Looks pretty nice!
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looks good, but honestly rye would have been better planted come late august/early september. the deer will use it in its young/tender stages but come late summer it will be tall, tough and headed out and deer will most likely ignore it for the most part as a food source.
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He's new to this and will learn what to plant and when. I don't know anything about crops either.
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He's new to this and will learn what to plant and when. I don't know anything about crops either.
i am no expert by any means, but i have been planting them for 20 or so years so i know a few things regarding them. would be glad to answer questions for him if i know the answer. it's fun and very rewarding hobby, just like rolling your own arrows or reloading is
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There's nothing like a food plot ripe, or just after picked in the fall early season, if deer like it, and it's available, I'm hunting close to it! Looks really nice with the surrounding cover, and I imagine a water source nearby also. :thumbup:

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I did a very small plot of sugar beets and turnips in our orchard last year and it paid off. Ma got her first deer right in that plot. The turnips took a beating but kept growing till the seasons end. I have it all tilled up and after turkey season I'll add a load of manure and start again. I would like to expand it but there are lots of stumps, roots and boulders. Anybody have any ideas on what to plant in such a rough area?
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I did a very small plot of sugar beets and turnips in our orchard last year and it paid off. Ma got her first deer right in that plot. The turnips took a beating but kept growing till the seasons end. I have it all tilled up and after turkey season I'll add a load of manure and start again. I would like to expand it but there are lots of stumps, roots and boulders. Anybody have any ideas on what to plant in such a rough area?
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cannot give much input about your "rough area" other than hiring a dozer to go at it for you, they can accomplish more than you can imagine in an hour of work. but if the beets/turnips worked last year imo no need to fix what aint broken. maybe add some forage radish just to give them more variety? just a thought
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Turnips and other brasiccas easily take root if they have good contact with the ground. All that is needed is to rake, seed, tamp down and rain. In my food plot last year they destroyed radishes and kale. Most brasicca will reproduce to some extent. If allowed, radishes will go to seed and reproduce and established Kale will freeze and come back in the spring. I planted beans last year in strips and the deer wiped it out by the time summer rolled around. This year I planted oats at the perimeter about 15' wide in hope that deer hit the young plants before they get to the beans. The main food source for fall will be brasiccas planted in August.
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Turnips and other brasiccas easily take root if they have good contact with the ground. All that is needed is to rake, seed, tamp down and rain. In my food plot last year they destroyed radishes and kale. Most brasicca will reproduce to some extent. If allowed, radishes will go to seed and reproduce and established Kale will freeze and come back in the spring. I planted beans last year in strips and the deer wiped it out by the time summer rolled around. This year I planted oats at the perimeter about 15' wide in hope that deer hit the young plants before they get to the beans. The main food source for fall will be brasiccas planted in August.
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i have never tried beans, but have thought about it but thought fancy equipment was needed to plant them. did you just broadcast the seed :?:
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Deaf jeff wrote:
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Boo wrote:
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Turnips and other brasiccas easily take root if they have good contact with the ground. All that is needed is to rake, seed, tamp down and rain. In my food plot last year they destroyed radishes and kale. Most brasicca will reproduce to some extent. If allowed, radishes will go to seed and reproduce and established Kale will freeze and come back in the spring. I planted beans last year in strips and the deer wiped it out by the time summer rolled around. This year I planted oats at the perimeter about 15' wide in hope that deer hit the young plants before they get to the beans. The main food source for fall will be brasiccas planted in August.
don,
i have never tried beans, but have thought about it but thought fancy equipment was needed to plant them. did you just broadcast the seed :?:
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I broadcasted this year. Normally I use a 2 row corn planter but it getting the rows close together isn't ideal because of the relationship between tractor spacing/ideal bean spacing/corn planter spacing. I'm not going to buy a seeder because of the high cost so I used the below. It needs a good bit of hp. I'm using an RTV 900 with just over 20 hp.
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What hatchet said, turnips and beets. If he has materials, fence off a big plot in the middle. Save it for opening season!!

Northwoods deer will be hammering the oak crop and pretty much ignore the rye.

Any kind of clover around the edges.they'll dig up snow to get leftovers.

That plots was big enough to try several option !!
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I just talked to my Buddy and he said he’s going to
Plant rye, radishes, rape and beans to start. So by September something should be growing.
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Deer , most likely, will be tearing it up. Good choices.

Its a lot of time a nd effort, not to mention cost!

My advice to fence off a portion for opening season really works. It gives that section of crops a chance to mature.
Pick an area within bow range of any stands .

A farmer n. Of eagle river has had great success , using this method. They seem to bag the biggest bucks every yr. They drop a section of fence a few days before late rifle.
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