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 …
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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 …
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 …
Ok, so its early spring and still cold here in Pennsylvania. You have already done your frost seeding, right? Frosty nights and snow are over and we are in for some rainy weather this time of year in our part of the country. Clover is starting to green up as are cool season grains. Now, …
This Blog Post is Taken from the Penn State University blog post of Duane Diefenbach at http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/projects/deer/news/2014/. Notice that deer will gravitate to a small hiding spot during deer season. I would rather have a 50 to 100 – acre property of very good escape cover and hunt it with low impact techniques that to …
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. …
