Food Plots

[Dixie Dog]

Ive never planted food plots after the season, but plann on it this year bc of all the spikes ive seen this year. What do yall plant and what would yall recomend planting?

[LawDawg]

I would plant some sort of high protein plot for the summer. Biologic makes some good ones (I would suggest that you see what is in it, then go to the co-op and buy it seperately). I help a guy that plants clover and soybeans. Then, in the fall, switch to brassica's that are more palatable to the deer and produce more tonage per acre. You will be surpised how much mass the deer put on by doing summer plots. Hope that helps.

[Soybean Man]

I have been putting out about one mineral block per 10 acres over the past few years. I don't know if it is helping, but the deer sure are using them. I have about 150 acres located about 1/2 mile from a large WMA and try to do everything I can to hold deer. Before I bought the property from a timber company, they thinned it out pretty good and I believe this has helped it out more than any other management I could have done.

[Blackwater]

2 years ago we started planting 'summer' food plots, we plant some peas, grain sorghum, corn and soybeans. we also keep trace mineral blocks out all year long. you have to seperate the sorghum and corn because it will cross pollinate. Winter we plant a combo of oats, wheat, and rye grass. We have gone from seeing 4 bucks in 2004 to seeing 25 to 30 bucks in the past season. Also game and fish did a herd 'reducition' on the property adjacent to ours last year and killed off around 80 or so does.

[mille011]

We have gone to peanuts.