2024 Foodplots

Different farm, stuff looks good here as well. Pasture plot


Came around the corner to my big plot just after a rain and there were 3 doe and 1 yearling out munching in the brassica and wheat/pea strip. You can see them in the back left of the pic.

You nailed it on both of the weeds, Stu. Oxeye daisy and Purslane.

Did you buy Sonora, or what brand did you end up with?

I should have also said that I added 2 qts liquid AMS and a pint of surfactant per acre

My wheat, oats, and winter peas that I planted a week ago is coming in nice.

The peas were just starting to emerge out of ground. In previous years when I used this mix the deer devoured them before they could mature.

This picture is of edible pea regrowth in a rye cover crop. There is a field of about 160 acres adjoining  my woods.

Deer were on green soybean fields about two weeks ago. They disappeared for a bit and I suspect they were on acorns. The last few days they are back on the soys that are now yellow and drying down. A few deer were on the edges where they chopped corn and that has ended.  They are also eating some apples.

They are not on alfalfa, brassica, rye cover crops with either edible bean or pea regrowth.

The sweet corn harvest adjoining my place just ended yesterday.

I just thought I would post some observations as I try and understand these strange critters we are fascinated with.

There are hundreds of acres of field corn still standing. This is a different environment than what most of you hunt.

Beautiful plots everyone.  I’m impressed.  They should be well used this fall.  

Here’s my west plot that was spread in early spring on the new plot.  Alice white, medium red, chicory, and small burnet. 

Deer have kept it mowed.  







Here’s a brassica experiment on my cellar hole plot. It has pasja turnips, purple tops, groundhog and collards.  I mowed a couple passes through the buckwheat with my DR mower.  I kinda wish I’d done one more pass with the mower but, the honey bees were all over the buckwheat.

I spread 100 pounds of 19-19-19 today because it needed potassium and phosphorus.  We got .3” this afternoon and are due for another 1” tomorrow.  I’m hoping to spread more urea or 19-19-19 next week if we get another batch of rain that is forecasted. The soil needs the phosphorus and potassium even if the brassicas won’t suck up the nitrogen.