Summer Food Plot Plant Descriptions Planting a Multispecies Crop for Maximum Biomass Production When you combine all of the above plants, you will find that they all grow better together. Diverse cover crops are extremely good for soil building and maximizing the available forage for deer. You can let the summer cover crop go to …
Creating Better Wildlife Habitat with Cover Crop Food Plots Cover crops are becoming more and more popular in the farming community. Its not just about soil conservation but also about bringing nutrients out of the soil for use by cash crops and animals. In our case, as wildlife habitat enthusiasts, we are concerned with …
What to Plant in a Deer Food Plot? There is so much information out there about what the best food plot seeds to buy. Most of the information is pure advertising designed to offer a little bit of advise but mostly to sell a bag of over-priced seed. It can be overwhelming sometimes and causes …
How to Interpret a Food Plot Soil Test I was in a meeting the other day with a phD soil scientist Dr. Spargo at Penn Stat and my agronomist friend Derec Markle of Yonder Mountain Conservation, discussing soil testing and how to interpret a food plot soil test. I shared with them some examples of …
Fertilizing Deer Food Plots While reading the comments on a youtube video I made about how to interpret soil test reports from the PSU soils lab, I can see that there is a lot of mystery and confusion around the subject. A search of the subject brings up a lot of “simple remedy” ideas …
Cover Crop Cocktails for Food Plots Why multi species cover crops make great food plots Whenever I suggest multiple species plantings for food plots I often get the argument that a crop will grow better individually. That is true when we want to maximize production of cash crops, but what is the goal here? We …
Soil Test Report: PH is the Most Important Characteristic to get Right I recently received a message from a client who, after sending in his food plot soil test and getting the result was asking me to get him a delivery of lime. He told me his test came back with a 6.2 pH, close …
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You want to have a food plot on your land but it doesn’t have any open ground or fields. Where do you start? First of all, your land is not farmland for a reason – nobody cleared it to farm because it wasn’t suitable for farming. The early settlers where adept at locating soil that …
A site visit to the NY property revealed a rare problem, that is, too much rain. Never thought I would be complaining about too much rain, but we have fields now that are waterlogged and plants suffering from lack of air. There is a lot of yellowing in some fields and the neighbor’s corn is …
Update on Spring Plantings and Last Year’s Habitat Work Read More »
Recently, I have had a couple of landowners ask me what to plant now that it is June and they haven’t planted their food plots yet. Now that summer is well underway and we can get some very hot, dry conditions, it is too late to plant tender perennials like Ladino Clover. Although the past …
