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Post by biglakebass on Aug 8, 2021 21:49:23 GMT -6
Its so much more relaxing letting a farmer plant crops on our land for zero rent vs trying to grow plots........... Especially this year with no rain.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Aug 8, 2021 22:08:04 GMT -6
The food plotters problem starts this way. When I say you need to put down a good pre like zidua pro at 5oz/acre on your soybeans at a cost of $4.50/oz they say great. Until I tell them it comes in a 2.5 gal jug and costs $1400 a jug. Then 99% of them say fuck that, give me something to spray over the top. And that is when the trouble begins. It’s why glyphosate doesn’t work anymore. It is what it is and it will never change.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 9, 2021 4:01:50 GMT -6
Its so much more relaxing letting a farmer plant crops on our land for zero rent vs trying to grow plots........... Especially this year with no rain. better yet to get rent dollars with it.
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Post by caveman on Aug 9, 2021 6:34:07 GMT -6
25 years ago when I first heard of food plots I figured they were only for areas where tractors couldn't farm. After reading the last few posts, that idea might not be far from being correct.
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Post by smsmith on Aug 9, 2021 7:10:17 GMT -6
Its so much more relaxing letting a farmer plant crops on our land for zero rent vs trying to grow plots........... Especially this year with no rain. I'll leave row cropping to the farmers
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Post by badgerfowl on Aug 9, 2021 8:13:37 GMT -6
I wouldn’t ever plant corn or beans. Leave that to the pros. I want to give them something they typically don’t have.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Aug 9, 2021 8:19:17 GMT -6
May I remind you of why we plant soybeans for food plots…..
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Post by terrifictom on Aug 9, 2021 8:29:22 GMT -6
May I remind you of why we plant soybeans for food plots….. And soybeans are not hard to grow. Can be planted with atv and a few other atv attachments. They provide deer high protein from the time they pop out of ground until the last dried pod is consumed in winter.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 9, 2021 8:55:34 GMT -6
I am not very good at food plots! I like to have the farmer leave me 2 acres of corn and/or beans and then I will spread brassica seed into the beans. That is about it, with some small clover plots mixed in.
Fifty percent of the time I get a good stand of sorghum from broadcasting and dragging it in...good luck to all trying to master this--it is not easy!
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Post by badgerfowl on Aug 9, 2021 9:04:37 GMT -6
Soybeans are pointless on 1 acre with our deer population. And no, I'm not fencing it either.
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Post by Bob on Aug 9, 2021 9:06:51 GMT -6
You don’t think weeds grow in a field planted with a $5400 planter verses a $1500 planter. I want to hear this. It will be new to me. Dammit MO...you are not doing your homework.....again. Why don't you watch this video from the "experts" before you reply with your nay-saying? (huge grin). I know this is not a perfect plan for everyone...but it's better than what I am doing now. It's this or going back to nature for me. I'm tired of giving my money to MR HANEY and MR MO.....and the other snake oil salesmen that promote their elixir's. (grin). SD....why ain't you in my corner when I need you? I handle the regen agronomy now. You're not ready to fix the problem yet, but I'll try to help. Is the pigweed spreading beyond your plots and into your timber and untouched areas? Or is it confined to the plots?
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Post by terrifictom on Aug 9, 2021 9:29:42 GMT -6
Soybeans are pointless on 1 acre with our deer population. And no, I'm not fencing it either. Both my bean plots are 1.5 acres. Yea the deer browse them but they always turn out great. The trick is to plant them at a much higher rate. Like double the rate, let the deer thin them and you get a great plot of beans.
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Post by badgerfowl on Aug 9, 2021 9:33:57 GMT -6
Soybeans are pointless on 1 acre with our deer population. And no, I'm not fencing it either. Both my bean plots are 1.5 acres. Yea the deer browse them but they always turn out great. The trick is to plant them at a much higher rate. Like double the rate, let the deer thin them and you get a great plot of beans. Beans just don't interest me one bit. I have no desire to plant them as a food plot. They're all around. Maybe you don't have much beans around you?
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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 9, 2021 9:50:26 GMT -6
The best food plots for me are beans with brassica seed spread in August. Hard to beat it, with corn second. I agree though you can't have small bean plots.
A nice green clover plot or lush alfalfa are great early in the season though! I guess that is why diversity seems to be best.
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Post by badgerfowl on Aug 9, 2021 9:54:07 GMT -6
The best food plots for me are beans with brassica seed spread in August. Hard to beat it, with corn second. I agree though you can't have small bean plots. A nice green clover plot or lush alfalfa are great early in the season though! I guess that is why diversity seems to be best. I've got a smorgasbord in our one acre field plot. Little bit of everything. Clover, WR, oats, peas, brassicas, cowpeas, pumpkins. Also have more hidden brassica/oat/pea plots. Plan is to turn the hidden plots into perennial clover and do the LC rotation in the field. Ratios may be more towards 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 but I'm fine with that.
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