ONE SMALL FOOD PLOT??? SPRING PLANTING, THIS IS WHAT I WOULD PLANT.
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- Опубликовано: 12 мар 2024
- In this video I discuss what I would plant in the spring if I only had one small food plot available. As land managers, and deer hunters we are constantly looking to provide high quality nutrition to our whitetails years around. Planting spring and summer food plots can be challenging with small food plots, as deer, raccoons, squirrels, and other wildlife browse or destroy the plot. In this video I share with you what is the best option to plant in these small food plots that provides high protein food source all summer and resist browse pressure.
Wes...I agree, we plant RR soybeans on our plots to put nitrogen back in the soil, reduce erosion and to help keep the weeds suppressed during the summer. We don't care if they feed the deer or not, as we have plenty of Ag land adjacent doing that. We usually get really cheap beans, sometimes 2 yr old and plant them heavy. We usually plant our summer plots late as you stated. We concentrate on having a successful fall plots that we will be hunting on from mid Oct thru Dec. . We generally disc our fields up and then plant our fall plots. This has worked for us and has saved a lot of time and expense not worrying about summer plots. Just what works for us. Bob
Sounds like yall are doing it right! Good luck with the plots and thanks for watching
Have you tried Joint Vetch? All of the same benefits of soybeans since it’s a legume, but isn’t quite as attractive as soybeans so it survives browse pressure better. The keys to warm season plots is pre-emergents. I want to plant, fertilize and spray and be done. Prowl or Dual can be used with all legumes as well as sunflowers. The joint vetch is a heavy reseeder so once it goes to seed. Spray it with gly and spread your fall plot straight into it. I like cereal grains and a mix of annual clovers. That will get you through March. At that time, mow the plot, fertilize and spread joint vetch at half the rate, since you have seed from last year in the seed bank, and spray a mix of prowl and gly and your done. Joint vetch is better than other legume with partial sunlight and low ph too. It’s basically Sturgis’s method with seed adapted to the South, being that our warm season is 7 months long.
Mark, that’s great information, I have used both of the above chemicals before with good results….but I’d be just fine in never spraying any more prowl…that stuff gets everywhere and on everything. So this is something I actually get asked a lot, and I’m not saying I’m right or wrong but this is just how I feel about this. I want to plant the most desirable plant that I possibly can, if I plant something the deer don’t like as good and I have neighbors planting the plot that is irresistible to the deer, they are going to be in the neighbors plot not mine. This is the exact Same way with corn and milo, I believe corn is superior to milo from a whitetail perspective, but Milo is much easier to be successful with. Thanks for watching
Plant spring oats in early spring. 60lb bag less than $20 at co-op and there usually treated. Plant RR beans into oats green allowing oats to protect beans, suppress weeds and add nutrients. No fertilizer needed. Once beans are up spray. Oats will keep ground covered locking in moisture. This could all be done with a spreader and roller also. Plus it gives your deer more options for nutrients.
Definitely more than one ways to accomplish the goal! Thanks for sharing your insight! Appreciate you watching
I feel like this video was just for me❤️ lol thanks Wes this video was a lot of help.
Glad you liked it and found it helpful! Thanks for watching
You are the man! So informative! Holler when you need a drone brother
Thanks buddy I appreciate you! Hopefully we can get together soon! Thanks for watching
Love your soybean method... Instead of giving up, you made it work 👍☘️
Thanks bow man! I am a little stubborn at times! Haha. Thanks for watching
@@DIYfoodplotproThank YOU !!!
I have managed large private properties for deer, quail and turkey for 15 years. I’ve used round up ready plots to control weeds, but soy beans could not regenerate from the browsing on some of my high deer density farms. I changed my fertilizer to a heavy phosphate and planted two different plots in the Spring. Cow peas and Sedan Sungrass. I learned that when I apply heavy phosphate, “weeds” that thrive on phosphate would grow which provide a natural alternative mineral source for antler growth along with highly digestible protein.
Thank you for sharing your experiences, really enjoy hearing how folks do this differently throughout the country. I do fertilize fairly heavy on all my plots, and I believe adding the nitrogen to the soybeans and waiting until soil conditions are warm, protecting them for 7-10 days after emergence and not planting super early on in the spring are key details in the soybeans being able to survive the initial 7-10 day period. When ive followed the above recipe I’ve never had soybeans die off on me. Thanks for watching
I have a small property surrounded by ag land. In the fall, there is 40 acres of clover on one side and 20 acres on the other side with corn and beans as far as you can see. I don’t really see deer until they cut the corn. I need something to compete with the clover at that point
Sounds like you got all kinds of food around you, might be the place to make tons of cover on your farm. Make them bed on you, and go feed in the large fields at night. Thanks for watching.
In Texas but would like to build a couple of plots , very good content! Thanks for your efforts
Glad you are enjoying the content and finding it helpful! Good luck with the plots and thanks for watching
Makes sense.
Thanks for watching buddy!
I live 2 hours from my hunting property. We are doing food plots for the first time this year. Our biggest plot is 1.2 acres with an average PH of 6.1. We have 3 other small plots that I'm going to try the eagle seed buffalo blend in. Two of those plots are .2 acres and 1 is .4 acre.
I will overseed the eagle seed soybeans but I have to put up the electric fence on the same day of planting. All of our plots are remote so I'm doing tilling with my ATV + the groundhog max.
Eagle seed suggests adding inoculate to the soybeans. This should mean I don't have to add extra nitrogen correct?
I'm not sure but I might add some plot dr, liquid lime to the soybean plot.
Are there any drawbacks to adding the liquid lime, and fertilizer at the same time we plant the soybeans?
I'm planning on doing a 3d electric fence and leaving it guarding the soybeans for 2 months.
With ph being 6.1 I wouldn’t add anytning to the plots, if I wanted to build on the soil ph, I’d apply pelleted lime, there is not going to be enough in a jug of liquid lime to do anything….the weight is simply not there. Yes if you had inoculant then you don’t have to add nitrogen as the plants will make their own. You’re on the right track fencing them off if you want to have anything left for the fall. Thanks for watching
small plots and soy beans don't mix well in high deer density areas. you'll have bare dirt by opening day up in the north if you're in a low AG area.
I’m in a high density deer area….this is not to hunt over, it’s for providing nutrition all summer long. The fall plots in the same series is the one I’d choose to hunt over, this is just to keep the whitetails high quality feed all summer long. I’m not being sarcastic at all, just curious, have you ever planted them exactly like I said in the video? Heavily fertilized with nitrogen. not plant in the early spring, plant at a much higher rate, protected them at all cost for 7-10 days after emergence? I’ve done this many many times on small plots, and had great results. I’m not saying by any means that they are going to get 4 feet tall and loaded with soybeans, but they have worked well feeding my whitetails all summer. Thanks for watching
@@DIYfoodplotpro No, I haven't planted beans exactly like you said, so my point of reference might not be valid. I've planted soy beans (in good soil, 7.2 ph) in .75, 1, 1.5 and 2 acres in low ag/high deer density areas and there wasn't much left by mid October so I've gotten away from soybeans and now plant a mix of clovers, chicory and oats, then over seed if needed in mid September with cereal rye. We don't hunt over our plots either, just use them as a draw to pull them on the property and predict movement. My closest stand to a food plot is about 150 yds away from it. Great channel, keep up the good information.
Hey Mike, thanks for watching the channel, I really appreciate the support. It can definitely be an uphill battle planting the soybeans in a small plot, but it has worked well for me. For our area the soybeans are a great plot to hunt velvet bucks with a bow early season! Good luck with the plots and have a great day!
Great video as always. I do have a question. Im surrounded by soybean/corn every year on my little 40 acres of timber/thicket. I have a little 1/4 acre plot of white clover. Im wanting to wait until after turkey season to plant. Would it be a better choice to plant something like buckwheat then later when i plant my fall food plant my wheat,rye,brassicas? I'm not far from you over here in Madisonville, Ky. Thanks buddy.
Yes sir, that would be just fine, so long as you can plant through all of the residue. Has the plot played out or are you just wanting to switch it? Thanks for watching
@DIYfoodplotpro last year August 26th) was my first year for a plot. I planted wheat, rye, oats and clover with a very tiny amount of turnips. I checked it over the weekend and the clover is coming in nicely. Just new to all this so I'm clueless lol.
It’s been a phenomenal year for clover….if you want to keep it you can mow or spray the oats, and wheat and as long as it’s perennial clover it should continue growing
I want to try buckwheat this year, how would a few Iron&Clay peas do with the BW , any idea? Or would you no mix them at all? I'm going to plant cow peas in other plots on my farm, I may try Soy Beans but I currently have 5.7ph, and not sure if they will make this spring/summer because of that low Ph
Mixing buckwheat and peas you are mixing grasses and legumes….if I did it I would make 100% sure I got a great stand. 5.7 on soybeans will be fine, it’s not optimum but it will work! Thanks for watching
What would you do differently if you had a little more space (maybe an acre) and the goal was to have soybean pods for hunting over in winter?
Depending on how much other ag is around You would likely have to fence I if you are in a high deer density zone. If your in a medium to low deer density area or if in a heavy ag area a lot of time you can plant this plot in the summer and it not get hit as hard. Thanks for watching
When going to plant a fall blend, what would you use to terminate the RR soybeans? Or would you just plant into them?
Great question, I wouldn’t terminate them. If they make soybeans even better. Just plant right into them. Thanks for watching
Is the best weed mix rate you recommend is one quart glyphosate to 15 gallons water? How long do you wait before you spray? Will one overspray usually do the trick? Thanks Professor P.
You can use some pre emergents, and that will help keep the weeds/grass at bay for longer, but glyphosate is going to be the cheapest option by far. Yes I run 32oz roundup to 15 gallons of water, with 41% active ingredient. Check the roundup label as many companies are cutting back the active ingredient and thus a higher rate with have to be used. No I would expect to spray 3-4 times over the summer if I was using straight roundup. Thanks for watching
How do you propose to keep deer out of the plot while the soybeans get established, other than waiting until there is plenty of other food around?
I used scarecrows last year, and had very good success with them. They will get use to it quickly, so changing them up, moving them around are helpful. But it 100% worked for me
I have noticed that imperial powerplant mix is aporoved to spray with Arrest max. Might that be an option for smaller plots?
I’ve never tried the product, not sure what is in the mix. Thanks for watching
@@DIYfoodplotpro It has viney soy beans, peas, sunflowers and sunn hemp.
Tried this. Doesn’t work for me in small plot, my deer ran through the beans in about two weeks
It has worked well for me over the years. Did you protect the beans for the first week-10 days and keep the deer completely off of them?
You’re not raising fertility if you’re spraying my man. You’re sanitizing once yearly, not growing soil.
Mark, actually my soil is very fertile after adding years of nutrients, but I understand what you’re saying. The soil is the upmost importance to me, I make my living off of it and I try my very best to take care of it. We will just have to agree to disagree on how we feed the world.
stupid queation. how many soy beans are in a pound?
That’s a great question! It actually varies significantly by the size of the soybeans. There are approximately 140,000 seeds in a bag of soybeans. And all soybean seed will come with a tag or it will be printed on the bottom of the bag, how many seeds are in a pound in that specific bag.