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Dave: Spring '99 I planted 2 food plots of 1-1/2 acres each in milo with some Japanese millet mixed in for good measure. I was working in brome grass, so Roundup first, waited 2 weeks, then just disked. This past spring, same plots, but added 2 more (3 acres) of seed corn, from Pheasants forever (free) and outlined these w/about 8' of sorghum. Man, that stuff came up great both times, no plowing, just disking. A final light disk to cover seed, and success. The best part was that I could just run over it all with a little 2-4D (cheap) to do away with the thistle that popped up. Plots grew thick enough to blank out the weeds once it got about 18" high. My only learning was that less is better. Too thick, and it has some seed, but thin it down a little and the seed heads are much larger and fuller. I couldn't have kept the pheasants and quail out if I wanted to. Don't be surprised if they don't hang there much early in the season. I checked last December, and hardly any seed was gone. First snow and cold snap, and they butchered the stuff w/in 2 weeks. That's what it was there for. By the way, I love to hunt, but I only got around to doing so on my place once...oh well. Now I have 3 coveys of quail and 12-15 pheasants that stay on my 50 acres. Success.... e-mail @ [email protected] if you want to share info.
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