Spring Food Plot Plantings that Feed Deer and Build Soil As spring approaches, many people begin to think about planting their garden and tending to their lawns. But for hunters and wildlife enthusiasts, spring is also the perfect time to start planning and planting a deer food plot. A food plot is an area of …
Do Deer Know When Hunting Season Begins? Have you ever watched a deer feeding in a field on your hunting grounds or seen a nice buck occasionally when out walking in late summer, only to have him disappear like a ghost when hunting season opens? Its almost like they have a calendar that tells them …
Creating Deer Habitat That Also Benefits All Wildlife As a landowner who cares about good stewardship of the land and who likes to see lots of game, songbirds and other wildlife like reptiles and amphibians while you walk your woods and to have great success in hunting season, this article is for you. As a …
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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 …
How to Create Buck Bedding Areas Buck bedding areas are not created but can be enhanced. The most important factor in a buck bedding area is the location and position on the terrain. The second factor is solitude and freedom from hunting pressure and social pressure from other deer. You can’t make a buck bed …
Just as hard liquor is better when mixed, cover crop seed is better when combined into a diverse mixture of plants that benefit the soil and the wildlife and maximize the biomass being produced about ground as well as the biomass of bacteria and fungi below ground. Year round food plots require multiple crops and …
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 …
Any time you push out a patch of woods and install a food plot, you will surely need lime and fertilizer to grow most food plot plants. The first tip I have is when you pick a place to put your plot, if you can, place it where you can get to it with …
We were anxious to see how much use the new bedding and feeding areas would be this fall. Having just finished up the season in NY, I would have to say that the work we did was a success. During archery season, I shot a big buck chasing a doe around the thicket we created. …
