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Gly is used very sparingly, only when it's the best tool for the job. Cover crop rotations help to minimize the amount of gly that is used. I have a healthy and thriving pollinator blend right next to the area that gets sprayed.

The bear definitely pushed them out of there but buck movement completely changes once they lose their velvet so don't put too much weight behind what they're doing when they're in velvet. They'll break up from their bachelor groups as we head into fall and start relating to fall cover and food.

@@HobbyHarvest okay, i hunt in south Louisiana and our deer dont rut u til the first week of January. So with me saying that, these deer dont get out of their summer habits until the first week of October. So normally when bow season opens i have 1 week to harvest a mature buck thats in a summer feeding pattern. With the information i gave you, do you think its possible with the amount of time i still have left for my target buck to return and do like he did before? Even tho the bear left? I appreciate your feedback.

@@shleeep74 you'll have to keep an eye on it. I've been bear hunting and have seen bears and deer walk through the same area an hour or so apart but because you're talking about a food source, he may have decided the guy over the next hill has just as good of food and he's not coming back. However, he could come back because a bear or other pressure pushes him out of there. The fact he's still checking on yours at night means it's still on his list so you have a chance, you're just not top anymore.

@@HobbyHarvest thats exactly what i figured. Thanks for your time brother! And goodluck this season!

Hello again, just wanted to update you on the buck. He just showed back up this week. He’s come in every day since Saturday. Generally 30 min after dark and staying until morning. Now im hoping he shows in daylight

Any time!

Thanks, you too!

Any time

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@@jeffpepin5930 Hey Jeff, just make sure to enter HobbyHarvest as one word and it will work. I just double checked it.

You bet

I've tried clover on trails we use to access the back of the property outside of hunting season and in my experiece it's very difficult to get established. To this day I go with winter rye food plots in NW WI.

@@HobbyHarvest Ok, thanks for the advice!

Then it's time to start your own channel! Any sort of cereal grain should work in the clay and it will help to add organic matter to it over time.

Agreed! I may do just that. I’m going to try winter rye and oats this year and see how it goes. Any idea if clover will grow in with it or too much competition?

You bet!

Glad it was helpful!

Yup! I feel that point has beaten to death over the past few years but still very important to mention for any new comers.

The smallest I've gotten them to hold on is 1/4 acre plot with them only planted on half of it. Peas and beans are on the other half so the brassicas go untouched until late season once they had a chance to get established.

I have a theory that they can hear the seed hit the ground so I leave the ATV run for the few minutes I'm spreading seed. So far so good since I've started doing that. I'll be seeding here again fairly soon so we'll see if that was just a coincidence or if it still holds up.

Good luck!

Yeah, I've found the biggest issue with no-till broadcasting using the larger seeds like peas and beans is that you never seem to get enough rain to soften the seed enough to get good germination before every critter out there eats them up on you. Soaking the seeds will literally soften the seed for you so you're not dependent on rain for it.

Yeah, if you have very low deer numbers in your area, you can use summer food to draw them in and then keep them there with the rest of the strategy I laid out. This is only where the natural habitat is extremely poor and the home range of that herd is significantly larger than I talk about in this video. Even then, I've found just focusing on fall food will still draw them in so it's not a necessary step to do summer food. If it is an area where you're getting a lot of winter kill, I do recommend spring food in the form of winter rye that comes up a couple weeks before everything else in the woods to shorten their winter a bit.

@@HobbyHarvest ok my habitat is actually pretty good in my opinion but we get deep snow so they migrate out of the area each winter

@@HobbyHarvest also I heard you say you will plant winter rye in with your brassicas and whatever else you have, can you plant the winter rye at the same time as the brassicas?

Nice! I'm glad you're seeing success.

@@HobbyHarvest it’s starting to turn into a weedy mess so I’m gonna go in a mow it down with all this drought that PA is experiencing I have established clover from last year dieing out on me

Yeah, my NW WI property is much the same. Over the years I've had a chance to open up some areas which really thickened them up and that of course is exactly where the deer are on that property.

@@HobbyHarvest I guess for me the big question becomes... "How much should i be trying to open up?" Its a lot of work and i dont have the time or budget to do all at once so im looking at a period of a few years to make all improvements... but i guess other than food plots should i be trying to open up the chunk of land or is some amount of standing canopy useful?

@@heycatmon Any large trees that are producing food for you, like acorns, chestnuts, apples, etc. are great ones to leave. The thicker a property is, the better it's going to be but most of us aren't going to have the time to clear a property ourselves so getting more sunlight down in and around the edges of your food plots is going to be a good place to start. After that, you can either try to create bedding areas adjacent to those food plots by getting more successional growth to come up or I've even cleared out areas I want the deer to move through in a more linear way because they'll travel in the thicker part of the woods if given the chance which makes them a lot easier to hunt.

Clover is a little different. It can be frost seeded in late winter or it can be seeded in spring. I've tried seeding it in the summer and it did come up but not enough that I would consider it viable for a fall food plot. You could definitely go with one of the other food plot blends this year and then frost seed clover into it in late winter. I would stay away from anything that has cereal grains in it as those will come up with your clover next spring.

Thanks! It sounds like you have a really good buck/doe ratio on your property.

@@HobbyHarvest i guess. Last yr was 1st yr hunting it. Seen more bucks in the fall than does had 4 shooters

I’m in the same bot at. 20 acre piece. Surround by ag and neighbors woods. Bucks stay most of the year. They leave around April but always return in late June early July and do not leave til next April again.

@@tfrost33elkhunter i dont even no if alot of my bucks leave. I no some do. Ill get new bucks in ocf and loose one or 2

Thanks 😁

Glad it was helpful!

It worked perfectly! Just need to make sure the rye is at the right stage. I didn't even put water in the roller.

That's great! I probably could lighten the seed rate but this definitely shades all of the weeds out and provides a nice thatch cover for my late summer seeding. It does come in very thick.

It won't be as tall as this rye. It will probably be around 4 feet tall when I terminate it after I seed my fall seeds into it.

I buy mine from the local co-op feed and seed.

@@HobbyHarvest thanks. I did not have time to get over there this summer. I will have to look for it next time I go.

Thanks for watching!

Yeah, that stuff will grow pretty much anywhere.

Yeah! I have clover in a couple trails but not all of them.

Mine is 1/4 acre so 1/8 of each type but I'd imagine you could get away with half that size or even smaller. The advantage is that the deer will go after the peas and beans in the early season which gives the brassicas a chance to establish. Once it gets colder and those beans and peas die off, the brassicas are still green and lush loving those cooler temperatures.