THE BEST DEER FOOD PLOT THAT NO ONE IS PLANTING
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2024
- In this video I talk about late summer/ early fall food plots such as soybeans and lab-lab. Spring plots such as corn, soybeans, cowpeas, sorghum, sun hemp, are all spring annuals that many food plotters plant to attract more deer to their farm during the fall hunting season. Other food plotters focus on fall food plots such as brassicas, annual and perennial clovers, and cereal grains such as oats, winter wheat, and cereal rye. Very few food plotters are planting late summer food plots that are high in protein and digestibility. As the spring turns to summer most of the whitetails food gets bigger and with this change comes lower protein levels and lower digestibility, leaving many whitetails left with undesirable food sources to finish up growing before the first frost. Planting these late summer food plots can not only benefit the whitetails by giving them high quality feed to finish out the growing season but also majorly benefit deer hunters with some fantastic whitetail deer hunting.
I'm up in the sticks wes if I plant sunflowers I'll have a field full of black bears. Can't wait to try overseeing brasicas in my beans in a few weeks. Thanks for the info
Yes sir! Works good and will get you multiple food sources in that plot come winter. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plot!
Hey Wess that Lab Lab and soybean mix is Awesome ❗The deer love it❗ It's one of my favorite plot mixes here in North Florida . Good call👍🏼❗
Thank you sir! I’ve been very happy with the plots as well! Thanks for sharing your experiences! Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots!
Keep it up man, love the channel. Lot of info you put out that nobody else on RUclips does. Practical, creative, helpful.
Thank you, I really appreciate you saying that! Good luck with your plots and thanks for watching
Like the shirt, Wes.
Thank you! Northwoods engineered!
Thanks Wes
Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it
I replanted a section of rye last week to see how they like it in late summer (and to see if it will flower again in the fall)
I’ve never seen it planted in the summer, not sure how it will do. Good luck with the plots and thanks for watching
Good info as usually Wes.
I really like you to try a 1/2 acre pumpkin plot .
They have become my favorite for late season attractant.
Even with corn/ sugarbeets and beans all around, the deer hammer my pumpkins.
Same here in wny
Pumpkins and sweet potatoes is a killer plot.
Dave, I appreciate the information! I’m gonna have to give this a go….ive heard many folks talk about this as well. I appreciate your sharing your experiences! Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots!
Great information. I’m trying some new mixes this week. Soybean, buckwheat, sunflower, and Milo. We are drying out again and I figure the drought tolerant mix outta be a decent base to throw brassica and cereal grains later in the summer.
Absolutely! You for some solid drought resistant in that mix. Good luck with the plots and thanks for watching
I did this over 20+ years ago and the deer loved them! BUT I have had deer hammer a field of corn with 5"-6" tall soybeans in it and mostly ignore the beans the first week of October in lower Michigan. If I remember right the ears hadn't hardened off yet.
I’ve had good luck with this plot but like you I’ve seen them hammer corn as well during that period. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Thanks for watching
Great video thanks
Thank you! I appreciate you watching, glad you found the video helpful!
Wes.....great comments one of the best years of attractant we ever had was when I got my beans in late due tome mother-in-law passing. They were the only green beans in the area in early fall, when all the neighbors were brown and the deer HAMMERED them. It was how I discovered and started planting Eagle Forage beans 12 yrs. ago. We generally plant some beans etc in our fall plots and then later go in and broadcast some winter rye in with them. Bob
Yeah it’s unbelievable how many folks don’t take advantage of late beans in early fall. You can really have a tremendous amount of deer using a plot if you’re the only one around with them. Thanks for sharing your experience! Thanks for watching
Hey, Wes. Do you have info on your soil sample kits?
I use waypoint analytical for a lot of my test, there is another brand I use but I can’t think of that labs name. Thanks for watching
Thanks man 🌱🦌👍
Yes sir! Thank you for watching, I certainly appreciate it!
Great video n info Continued Success!!😎
Thank you sir! I appreciate you watching and good luck with your plots!
Great video Wes....your sunflowers look alot better than mine i am jealous ....Do you have a paid Dove shoot in September ?... Thanks keep up the great work!
Thank you for the support, I don’t have a paid dove shoot….i do this plot for my daughters and myself. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plot!
Thanks Wes!
Hey Wes...prior to moving exclusively to the Green Cover Seed release process, Dr. Grant Woods would do a double crop soybean planting where he would drill right into the existing rye with soybeans then crimp down the rye forming a mat layer. Later in the fall, he would drill into the soybeans with a new crop of rye. You kill some of the existing soybeans doing this method but some will still be standing along with a fresh crop of rye to carry you through the winter. He was able to eliminate fertilizer employing this method as the soybeans produced nitrogen for use by the rye. I want to try this and am curious as to your take on it.
Michael that will work just fine….no trouble there. If you are getting plenty of rain, you can simply broadcast the cereal rye into the standing soybeans…..this leaves way more soybeans up then down, and as long as the moisture is there after seeding works really well. Cereal rye is one the of toughest crops there is, and like you said the soybeans would leave around 40lBS of nitrogen in the soil, providing plenty for the cereal rye. But if you would rather drill, you can do that as well, you’re just going to knock down a lot food that you have already raised for the deer. Thanks for watching.
Alright, it looks like the birdseed sunflowers came up really well. Which store did you get them from this time? Thanks Plot Prof...
Last year I got them from the local coop. This year I got them from buchheits. Same brand as last year. Thanks for watching
Should we spray first, then put seed down ?
Yes I would spray first to kill all vegetation before planting. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots
Hey Wes I’m going to plant my alfalfa in august, can I use chicken litter to fertilize or will that be to much nitrogen? Thanks
I think that will be okay, I used 9-23-30 but i always order more than I need. I’m sure I got 50-60 lbs of nitrogen out of it. You could also go ahead and add the litter now if you want, but I don’t think it will hurt anything to wait until closer to planting time.
I’m sorry Wes but I need your advice, I have two clear cut power lines that just got scalped by the electric company. I want to make them into bedding, my choices are throw buckwheat on them and smother them out for the year or add a sorghum screen. Next I will plant switchgrass, what do you think I should do. Thanks
I would let them go….those power lines turn into some amazing habitat in very short amount of time….or at least they do in my area. If you have a bus-hog and will handle mowing the easement yourself, you can get away with getting a good thicket started before having to bush hog it again. The power company won’t let the trees start to get up very much before wanting it mowed. You can also plant some native grasses if you would like….i just love that natural stuff, briars, saplings and weeds. The only tough thing about the switch grass is it really needs to be be burned and under those lines that would be a big no no.
@@DIYfoodplotpro thanks I have a decision to make. I sure appreciate your help.
You’re more than welcome! Good luck!
Hey Wes what herbicide do you recommend spraying in my bean plots that aren’t round up ready ? My beans are doing good despite tht drought but I have many areas Bn overtaken with grass . Thank you bud.
A good pre emergent will help tremendously with grass and weed pressure. Dual, or anthem max are both great pre emergents. Clethodym should clean the grass up in soybeans, just check the label and make sure it’s labeled for your state and on the size of your soybeans. Thanks for watching
@@DIYfoodplotpro And that won’t kill my beans ? Thanks buddy !
Don’t spray them with pre emergents now….that would be before planting and then depending on the chemical to a certain size. Clethodym is a grass only herbicide. It will kill grass but not broadleaves. Just make sure you read the label….i always use roundup on my soybeans, so I’m not familiar if there are cut off dates for spraying or if once the beans get a certain size you can’t spray anymore….all that will be wrote on the label, and you can read the label b4 buying the herbicide
Thanks Wes . I did a burn down after fall but haven’t applied a pre emergent . I’ll try the Cleth . My plants are only just emerging from the ground . Thanks again
So i help manage a farm. The owner and i are both new at it and are going thru everything basically for the first time. What do you charge for a boots on the ground visit?
You can email me at diyfoodplotpro@outlook.com I’ll be glad to discuss further and glad to help yall out. Thank you!
I'm in zone 7B in upstate, South Carolina. What zone are you in
I’m in western KY.