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reid5365

01-23-2008 18:55:54




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How would I go about plating a food plot in virgin soil? I need the whole process from plowing to plating; start to finish. It only on about 1 1/2 - 2 acres. Thanks




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Dave in ny

01-24-2008 15:00:17




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to reid5365, 01-23-2008 18:55:54  
Great answers here, but check out the Qulity Deer Management Association in your area. Go to their Website and you should be able to find a local branch that will give you loads of free info on Deer Food Plots



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Fergienewbee

01-24-2008 14:53:23




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to reid5365, 01-23-2008 18:55:54  
It depends too on what you are planting for. Planting corn in heavy deer populations may require fencing if you want any ears. Most deer plots plant stuff from the bracchia family.

For quail, disking in fall produces more weeds, like ragweed, one of the best foods. Quail want their feet in dirt, so disking strips next to brushy cover works best.

I planted a dozen short corn rows by hand last year. Came away with a new respect for our pioneer relatives. Had to water by hand too due to drought. Ended up losing most of the crop. The field corn in my garden that got watered often grew 10' tall. Darn blue jays cleaned out most of the ears, but the turkeys have been cleaning up the leftovers.

Larry

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johns48jdb

01-24-2008 14:13:12




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to reid5365, 01-23-2008 18:55:54  
some people around here get the county ag services to help them with the cost, especailly if its near any running water. the call it soil conservation. plant different things in rows by them selves. some tall stuff and some short stuff right next to it seems to attract alot of different game into the area. by planting it in swaths you can always have a clean place to walk and get to any game you shoot.

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John (MO)

01-24-2008 13:15:58




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to reid5365, 01-23-2008 18:55:54  
You shouldn`t expect to get record book bushels per acre from a food plot, so you don`t need to break up the soil to a depth that you would in planting a crop to harvest. In most places a disk will work, but it will take several passes and will depend a lot or the individual disk also. Some just will not cut sod or virgin ground. But you know that a plow is the cheapest piece of equipment you can buy. If you plow, you won`t need nearly as good a disk. Then, depending on what you want to plant, you can either sow it by hand or use a seeder or a planter or drill. For doing it on the cheap, I`d say plow, then disk, then throw your seed down and drag a tree top over plot to kind of cover the seed. Plant when there is a little rain in the forcast.

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Jeff-oh

01-24-2008 13:04:12




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to reid5365, 01-23-2008 18:55:54  
If you only want to get a disk, you can always hire out the plowing if you need to.



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David in Missouri

01-24-2008 09:11:49




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to reid5365, 01-23-2008 18:55:54  
You'll need to plow then disc. I've never seen a disc penetrate virgin soil.....they'll just roll right over. For 1-2 acres, you can get by with a single point plow and a new 6-7 foot double gang plow can be had for about 400-500 bucks.



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old

01-24-2008 09:19:02




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to David in Missouri, 01-24-2008 09:11:49  
All I ever do is disk and it has always worked just fine. I also live in misery and have and know the rock problems we have and all my food plots grow well. I do a new area almost every year. Oh by the way as per conservation dept. they also say to disk not plow for food plots



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Leroy

01-24-2008 06:34:30




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to reid5365, 01-23-2008 18:55:54  
bush hog and let dry any green stuff before trying to disc as green stuff likes to carry any disc over it instead of letting it cut thru it.



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old

01-23-2008 19:04:38




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 Re: Food Plot in reply to reid5365, 01-23-2008 18:55:54  
Disk it and cross disk it, let it sit a week or 2 and then disk it and cross disk it again. For food plots you don't really want to kill off all the grass etc but you want a good bed for the grain crops also. BTDT and put them in every year for the last 20 years or so. The idea of a food plot is to bring in game but also still leave cover for the smaller animals

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