Hi John, Nice Buck! Getting your target buck early can actually be a let-down for the rest of the season! On the drought and sandy soil here in NW lower MI, I went through the effort the last two years to install fully automatic sprinkler systems. One is fed from a spring and small creek, the other is fed from a river as it is close enough to pump the 1/3 mile to water to the plots. Game changer. I too learned a lot even though I've installed several lawn systems. Happy to share with anyone interested.
Even with the drought your clover mix and brassicas did well in my small plot here in south central Wisconsin. Deer ate all the brassica early to the ground. They are on the clover and chicory daily even with the drought. Your seed performed fabulous and I will be placing an order for spring. Thanks for the video.
I have only gotten 1/2 inch in NW Michigan since mid August. The storms keep missing me. I still have a lot of warm temps forecasted and no frosts yet since I'm so close the lake.i redrilled rye 5 days ago and will probably broadcast more rye in hopes i get rain and some growth. FYI I have the tar river drill drl48 and its pretty awesome for the money. My soil is very sandy so no till isn't a problem.
John you are correct the rain missing food plots is discouraging! I just went 5 weeks without rain while watching the storms from my porch hit to the north and east of me. My Sweet Feast brassicas are stressed and never fully developed. At the end of the day I do this for fun and can only hope for better weather patterns next year. Nice buck, Congratulations!
great tip john.Ya here in the Tumb of Michigan we had not much rain at all . I planted my cereal gran labor dayweekend No rain for 40 day Just. A few sprinkles but dew.We finally got some rain. I see your high school football team is good again this year👍
I've been running sprinkler pumps for 5 years. You'd benefit from a cheap outlet timer to start the pump and a multi hose watering timer and then the foot valve you mentioned to hold a prime. I have done exactly what you described and it's a time commitment. There are better setups and it's not going to compete with ag irrigation, but this setup cost me under $300 and I could do it myself.
We been dry in Kentucky but i got just enough rain! Any less i would have been hurting! My brassicas looks awesome and the deer stayed off them until this morning, i had 2 does picking around right before daylight and it's funny because we got our first frost last night and it was a pretty heavy one! Im hoping they start hammering them so the last week of October i can gunt my tree blind!
I have been doing no-till, or min-till plots, exclusively, for almost 10 years now. They invariably grow better, during drought conditions, than any plots planted using conventional tillage methods, like rototilling or discing. There are numerous reasons why this is true, but when you "Throw-THEN-Mow" your food plots, drought becomes far less of a concern. My plots are actively growing right up until the next thing is planted. Tillage is the root cause of most problems with food plots, so when you commit to a program that doesn't rely on tillage, you eliminate or reduce those problems. Ironically, the mixes you sell are GREAT for planting the way more and more folks are planting food plots, but it sounds like you aren't taking advantage of that. I think I understand why and it makes sense, because my plots don't "look" good...they just grow good.
The brassica were notilled into a bean plot that was eaten to the ground. The beans were planted so I could spray for grass. In some of our grounds, the notill simply is a recipe for failure. We are heavy sand , low OM on this piece. Rain is needed for seed germination when it’s on top of the ground. Seems even more. We have rye sitting all over on top of the ground not growing on multiple properties. But where it was buried, ( drill or light discing) it’s growing. I’ve been doing this along time, and this year, the notill throw and grow look the worst. You have to have rain to get throw and grow to work. A lot of rain. This spring was perfect for that method. This fall, not so much.
@@northwoodswhitetailsfoodpl2663 - When your method is "throw and grow", I agree completely. When you "Throw-THEN-Mow", with no tillage involved (unless you count a cultipacker) then seed never does just set on the surface. Also, monocultures of any kind (like beans eaten to dirt) are never a good food plot/habitat option. They are a farmer's solution to a wildlife food plot need. Truly diverse plantings, like some of those you sell, are awesome at avoiding drought busts.
@@jasonbroom7147if broadcast and mow was as successful as claimed, than we would do a lot more of it in ag settings. In reality, we do not because we do not get consistent germination and have seed loss doing it as advertised. If your in an environment that receives ample rain and has more sandy/loam, then yes with quality thatch/debris up top, you can make it work. But in ag, outside of red clover in our wheat fields, everything is drilled for a reason. In a deer world, I'd rather loosen the soil surface with minimal tillage, incorporate some thatch while leaving most roots in tact, and get ideal soil contact with the seed. Than broadcast into some thatch. And even at that it would need to be a mono of sorghum sudangrass or a heavy cereal grain.
Congrats on the nice buck John. The drought here in SE Dickinson was a major obstacle for successful food plots this year as well. We went 40 days with only .51” of rain after planting brassicas and broadcasting rye over the top of them a few weeks later. It was a prescription for very slow growth on the brassicas and little germination on the broadcasted rye. With deer numbers on the rebound, it really didn’t take long for them to browse down the brassicas early on. Irrigation just isn’t a viable option here so we are pretty much at the mercy of Mother Nature. I did drill some rye into our clover plots and got some germination but growth has been less than stellar. At least the clovers and rye are keeping some plots green and they should be fine for producing spring forage next year. Best of luck for the remainder of the season….and charge those batteries up before you start filming next time 😊. Wild Thing
Hi John, Nice Buck! Getting your target buck early can actually be a let-down for the rest of the season!
On the drought and sandy soil here in NW lower MI, I went through the effort the last two years to install fully automatic sprinkler systems. One is fed from a spring and small creek, the other is fed from a river as it is close enough to pump the 1/3 mile to water to the plots. Game changer. I too learned a lot even though I've installed several lawn systems. Happy to share with anyone interested.
2 kids still hunting
Lots of fun yet
Nice no need to see the arrow hitting the deer! Class act! Congratulations!
Even with the drought your clover mix and brassicas did well in my small plot here in south central Wisconsin. Deer ate all the brassica early to the ground. They are on the clover and chicory daily even with the drought. Your seed performed fabulous and I will be placing an order for spring. Thanks for the video.
Thanks!!
Good luck
Congratulations on a nice deer and a nice plot!
Thank you very much
I have only gotten 1/2 inch in NW Michigan since mid August. The storms keep missing me. I still have a lot of warm temps forecasted and no frosts yet since I'm so close the lake.i redrilled rye 5 days ago and will probably broadcast more rye in hopes i get rain and some growth.
FYI I have the tar river drill drl48 and its pretty awesome for the money. My soil is very sandy so no till isn't a problem.
Congrats on the buck John. My wife has been hunting our property in the UP about 20miles N of you (Stephenson area).
Congratulations on a great buck! Love your channel. Thank you and God bless.
Thank you
nice buck bud
John you are correct the rain missing food plots is discouraging! I just went 5 weeks without rain while watching the storms from my porch hit to the north and east of me. My Sweet Feast brassicas are stressed and never fully developed. At the end of the day I do this for fun and can only hope for better weather patterns next year. Nice buck, Congratulations!
Thanks
Thanks for the call yesterday. Appreciate the info.
You bet
great tip john.Ya here in the Tumb of Michigan we had not much rain at all . I planted my cereal gran labor dayweekend No rain for 40 day Just.
A few sprinkles but dew.We finally got some rain. I see your high school football team is good again this year👍
Sprinklers will definitely be in our future from now on.
Thanks
Yes fun ride again this fall. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
I've been running sprinkler pumps for 5 years. You'd benefit from a cheap outlet timer to start the pump and a multi hose watering timer and then the foot valve you mentioned to hold a prime. I have done exactly what you described and it's a time commitment. There are better setups and it's not going to compete with ag irrigation, but this setup cost me under $300 and I could do it myself.
Ya
This has to be on many folks todo list next year.
We been dry in Kentucky but i got just enough rain! Any less i would have been hurting! My brassicas looks awesome and the deer stayed off them until this morning, i had 2 does picking around right before daylight and it's funny because we got our first frost last night and it was a pretty heavy one! Im hoping they start hammering them so the last week of October i can gunt my tree blind!
Good luck
I have been doing no-till, or min-till plots, exclusively, for almost 10 years now. They invariably grow better, during drought conditions, than any plots planted using conventional tillage methods, like rototilling or discing. There are numerous reasons why this is true, but when you "Throw-THEN-Mow" your food plots, drought becomes far less of a concern. My plots are actively growing right up until the next thing is planted. Tillage is the root cause of most problems with food plots, so when you commit to a program that doesn't rely on tillage, you eliminate or reduce those problems. Ironically, the mixes you sell are GREAT for planting the way more and more folks are planting food plots, but it sounds like you aren't taking advantage of that. I think I understand why and it makes sense, because my plots don't "look" good...they just grow good.
The brassica were notilled into a bean plot that was eaten to the ground. The beans were planted so I could spray for grass.
In some of our grounds, the notill simply is a recipe for failure. We are heavy sand , low OM on this piece.
Rain is needed for seed germination when it’s on top of the ground. Seems even more. We have rye sitting all over on top of the ground not growing on multiple properties.
But where it was buried, ( drill or light discing) it’s growing.
I’ve been doing this along time, and this year, the notill throw and grow look the worst. You have to have rain to get throw and grow to work. A lot of rain.
This spring was perfect for that method. This fall, not so much.
@@northwoodswhitetailsfoodpl2663 - When your method is "throw and grow", I agree completely. When you "Throw-THEN-Mow", with no tillage involved (unless you count a cultipacker) then seed never does just set on the surface. Also, monocultures of any kind (like beans eaten to dirt) are never a good food plot/habitat option. They are a farmer's solution to a wildlife food plot need. Truly diverse plantings, like some of those you sell, are awesome at avoiding drought busts.
@@jasonbroom7147if broadcast and mow was as successful as claimed, than we would do a lot more of it in ag settings. In reality, we do not because we do not get consistent germination and have seed loss doing it as advertised. If your in an environment that receives ample rain and has more sandy/loam, then yes with quality thatch/debris up top, you can make it work. But in ag, outside of red clover in our wheat fields, everything is drilled for a reason. In a deer world, I'd rather loosen the soil surface with minimal tillage, incorporate some thatch while leaving most roots in tact, and get ideal soil contact with the seed. Than broadcast into some thatch. And even at that it would need to be a mono of sorghum sudangrass or a heavy cereal grain.
Congrats on the nice buck John. The drought here in SE Dickinson was a major obstacle for successful food plots this year as well. We went 40 days with only .51” of rain after planting brassicas and broadcasting rye over the top of them a few weeks later. It was a prescription for very slow growth on the brassicas and little germination on the broadcasted rye. With deer numbers on the rebound, it really didn’t take long for them to browse down the brassicas early on. Irrigation just isn’t a viable option here so we are pretty much at the mercy of Mother Nature. I did drill some rye into our clover plots and got some germination but growth has been less than stellar. At least the clovers and rye are keeping some plots green and they should be fine for producing spring forage next year. Best of luck for the remainder of the season….and charge those batteries up before you start filming next time 😊. Wild Thing
@@FrankP01thanks Frank
Good luck to you as well
So what did you have planted in that plot and when did you plant it? It looked amazing, thick, tall
Sweet feast up north
Behind the house ended up all fall forage and some clover blend plus