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Im in central Missouri and not much crop land near me. I planted 2 of my plots in purple top turnips and the deer are hammering it. I was hoping to have the plots growing good until December, but I had to go back and plant wheat and clover to hopefully save them. Deer around me must not have enough other stuff to eat. Any suggestions for what I should plant next year?

What is the yield per acre? Thanks for the info.

Thanks Wes

I think we're a couple weeks behind you here in se ok. Seems like they stay on food until the middle of October when are acorn start dropping here.

Good information here Wes. Have a safe and successful season. It's time for all the hard work the rest of the year to pay off

Early season in KY can be problematic because of chiggers and ticks. I was out two weeks ago and got chewed up. I'm afraid to go back out until the first frost.

How much does it COST someone to have as much Plot Professor CONFIDENCE as you have? I'm needing a BUNCH!!

You are lucky. Had a zillion acorns last year and a billion again this year. Worse a storm came through and knocked them all down. Luckily I tagged out Sat, opening morning.

Whats the name of the outfitter you keep referring to?

Wes......we have used mock scrapes with a licking vine VERY successfully for about 10 years. We put them up and shovel and rake the ground bare and then pee in them. We install a stand within 20 yards downwind. We don't put up a lot of scrapes on field edges as we did years ago. They were unsuccessful, we were thinking it would hold deer on our property. It was unsuccessful for us and I believe fewer scrapes with good stand placement is a MUCH more successful strategy. We get a tremendous amount of activity on our scrapes, but we do continue to "freshen them." Quietly rake them up and pee in the when we are in the area. We don't put any gel on them as we prefer to only have the natural sent from the deer on them. We place the end of the vine about waist high to chest, no higher. As you said Wes we attach a vine with a zip tie to a rope across where trails interest or from a branch. We set them on or near a well used trail, as we have found it difficult to pull the deer off the trail. This is just what has worked over the years for us in pursuing mature bucks. Bob

Good information Wes. I use mock scrapes and last year shot my buck as he was working one. I've always made them without any added scent, just place them in a well worn trail and the deer do the rest. This year I am trying Branch Butter after my neighbor showed me pics of bucks reacting to it from his farm. His farm is only a mile away but he has much more activity on the Branch Butter than I have. Currently my scrapes with no scent added are doing as well or better than the treated ones.

You don't need to add anything to a mock scrape, deer will come to it naturally. Just wasting $$

Thanks for all the great videos! I have found there is no need for putting any scent on the vine or in the scrape of a mock scrape. When the deer start using it they leave their own preorbital scent on the vine. They will continue using it all year long once it gets established. You are absolutely correct that the mock scrape has to be in the right place to get used. I place them right next to trails. It also helps if the vine is hung so a buck can work 360 degrees around it.

Wes where do you find the branch butter ?? been trying to find aq orbital gland set..

Wes, been doing mock scrapes for 30+ years. One IMPORTANT factor is::, do them in shaded cover. They very best scrapes will usually have moist soil. Field edge/ sun baked scrapes are hit_ miss.

I use mock scrapes unscented and the deer naturally hit them and use their own scent on them everything from young fawns to bucks have hit them

Thanks for the great tips Wes! I am definitely going to try the branch butter!!

Thanks Wes

what is the name of the app?

Ok Plot Professor...this begs the question...what do you think it takes to make your hunting property the place where a big mature buck COMES TO instead of leaving and going elsewhere? What does it take to actually be the ELSEWHERE those bucks come to? Any thoughts??

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As much as we would love to hold those fall travelers, it’s natures way of spreading genetics and stoping inbreeding. Best case scenario is you make a home like what you described and have the young pushed out yearlings from other places make your property their home range in the fall.

What do you think of goldenrod fields for fall cover?

Thanks Wes

I agree with everthing you said. The changes in 3 years of cutting and my little kill plot plantings in ag country is night and day. Unfortunately my wife is a dang tree hugger, and i pay hell every time she here's the saw! Lol

We tried to put out food plots out but it was just too dry. Western KY has bigger bucks so that's got to be the soil.

This is exactly what is happening with the property that I hunt in south east ky

Plant Triticale, Soybeans, Swamp White Oak and Persimmon trees. Suppress Coyote before Fawning season. Provide Water source with a gravel skirt and a covered mineral salt block. Salt blocks will increase animal health and often results in increased twinning of fawns.

What do you charge to come look at a farm

I watched this video two weeks ago and took Wes's advice so I was prepared when I planted last week. I took a 3 inch pump and a two inch ag rain gun and I pump about 20,000 gallons on 3/4 acre field. I'm going to do it again tomorrow. It's a lot of work but even with 100 degrees days here in Oklahoma it's already coming up and looking good. Thanks for the advice.

101 degrees today ... middle of September. Headed to the ranch to start irrigating my food plots before they burn up.

Thanks for the info! Where I'm planning to do a field, it's mostly grass and goat weed. Dove love to eat the goat weed seeds! As long as the sunflowers get a head start, they should grow great and might have some goat weed mixed in.

Hi Wess👋🏼 Huntin season kicked off last weekend (14th) here in North Florida. It's still a little to warm for me but I'm READY! I can feel the seasons changing ! (Dove fields, Duck Ponds and Deer Plots) 💪🏽 😁 IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT SEASON❗ Superb info as usual buddy,🤝🏼 keep it coming❗👍🏼

Coming from someone that had Wes come out this past winter for a consult, I can vouch that it's worth it. Not only is Wes a great human, but he's responsive, knowledgeable and great to be around! I will have him out again, after I've implemented all the things he suggested, so we can tweak it even better!

Great information for all Wes. Thank you

Thanks Wes

Hey Wes, got a question for ya man, is there anyway I could send ya some pictures of our property and you take a Quick Look at it maybe throw me a tip or two looking to tag a monster this year he made it threw from last year after he out smarted me last year

If you bought a no till drill would you buy one like the one you used in this video or is there another brand you like better ?

It’s Clark’s River Whitetails.

what is the name of your outfitting business?

I thought that the uptake percentage was much higher with liquid therefore you didn’t need nearly as much? Is that a bunch of crap or what?

Wes...as usual GREAT comments. I actually learned this years ago when my mother-in-law passed and I was very very late in planting some of my food plots. I still decided to plant the soybeans in a few fields anyway, even though I was convinced they would be a disaster. Guess what, when all my neighbors beans were dry pure brown mine were young and green.......and the deer were HAMMERING them. As you said don't expect any pods, but who needs them when they have all that preferred green food. Needless to say we had a great season, and lead us to try Eagle Forage Beans over 15 years ago with great success. We still do well every year planting "late" beans, not for bean production, but for GREAT forage. Many of the success I have had over the last 30 years have been made by either stupidly, accident, dumb luck, or lessons from studying what the deer prefer...not what I "think" they prefer. I have been very blessed with the experiences I have enjoyed in my journey pursuing mature whitetails. Thanks, your friend Bob

So later on (a month)you are just throwing on top of the ground the rye, wheat or oats and that large of a seed will germinate without any disking or tillage?

Yes I did and thanks for asking, I got decent germ I no tilled just over an acre. I think this maybe the last year for no till you need so much rain to get going, it’s safer to just till the ground. I have reseeded radish four times. Thanks again

Bad drought up here in Michigan. Plots are burning up. No rain in sight. We will be lucky to have enough time for Rye to get up and grow.

I saw a saquatch in the corn

Clover is worthless when the farmer has alfalfa planted right next door

Archery opens here in SE OK on October 1st. If we ever get a rain I'll try that wes. Thanks.

Now that sounds like a great plan, young beans in the fall, thanks wes.

Love the mix Wes can you reply with it written down per acre what amounts of each you recommend? BTW downloaded the FieldView app you recommended in previous video and it was dead on to what I had in the gauge from the rain we just got. Thanks for the content.