Backyard Corn and Soybean Food Plots
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2020
- In this video me and my dad are planting the food plots behind our house. We don't hunt on our property we only own 5 acres and 2 acres of cover. We are far away from the bedding. These plots mainly act as nighttime food sources and great winter food sources for the local deer herd. In previous years we have mainly just planted soybeans. This year we planted some corn too. last years we ran out of beans in mid February. I am hoping the corn will last a little longer because it should yield higher than the beans.
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Awesome stuff man. I like how you never rush your videos and you edit them all together to show the process and also the progress.
Thanks, to me it just makes the most sense to include everything in a single video. People want to see results.
Top dress those plots with some urea! That will help a bunch whenever it starts tasseling!
For sure, I was thinking about fertilizing the weaker corn before a big rain.
Wisconsin Whitetail id do the whole plot if possible! Looks good though
Will urea burn the plants when they are developed
Jason,
Plot looks good. I'm glad to see the Suzuki pulling the planter. KQ 750 myself. Good luck this fall with these plots.
Thanks, we’ve have the KingQuad for a while now. We used to have a green one too but recently sold it and got a Yamaha Grizzley.
Well I'm glad I found another video of yours yeah pretty interesting how the effect of the one filled over the other is good luck man
I still don't understand why the corn grew so much better in the one field.
Enjoying your videos, can't wait to see how you like broadcasting soybeans and row planting corn been doing a few years now.
Thanks, I regret not doing it this year, now I have to wait another year to try it out. LOL
I bet cultivating would help.
good video
we need some rain here pretty bad. hopin for some soon
Where are you located? Are you in Wi too? We need rain BAD! I hope we’re not entering a drought. We haven’t had a dry summer for a while now.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 we are in Pa.
last week we were about an inch below normal rainfall... now we have had 4 days straight at or above 90 with more to come.
our beans are lookin good but need some water for sure.
All upper 80’s and a few 90s forecasted for the whole next week. There is a small chance of rain tomorrow and Thursday here. I am surprised I haven’t seen any shriveled corn around here yet.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 hopefully you dont see any haha.
heres hopin we all get some rain!
Glad to see you tighten those rows down...looks good. Nice old 2 row planter...can you say what you paid for it?
Thanks, my dad bought it for $400. It’s about the cheapest style of 2 row planter you can buy. 3 point hookup 2 row planters are all over $1000. The ATV easily pulls it and it works great.
After seeing how well the soybeans grew by simply broadcasting them into standing rye and them running them over to crimp them down on top of the seed, do you plan to still plow/disc in the future? Why work the soil so much, setting back the biota, when a throw and mow/pack method gets the job done?
Are you concerned that corn for a food plot wouldn't grow that well if it isn't in rows?
I do plan on doing more no till plantings of soybeans into the standing rye in the future. But corn does not work that well when not worked into the soil. You can broadcast corn and disc in and it would turn out better.
I am not really worried about destroying our soil. We are going to continue to plow and disc our larger food plots. That way we are able to work fertilizer into the soil. At our hunting property in a field that we plowed and disced and worked in fertilizer our soybeans are taller than the neighbors ag beans right next to our food plot with the same soil that were no till drilled. We planted our beans a few days after their field was planted because I didn’t want the deer to over browse our small field if we planted to soon. Our soybeans are waist high and already producing tons of pods.
You can say what you want to say about tillage vs no till. But in areas that are very sandy rocky soil yes no till is the way to go, but in other areas where the soil is very fertile with very little rocks you can get away with tillage and be fine. I guess we are just lucky to have good soil. The the way I look at its driving down the road today, you cannot tell the difference between a field that was tilled and planted vs a no till field.
Great video ! When and how do you fertilize? Also how much per acre?
We fertilize some of our plots, only the ones that need it. We take a few sample of our plots and fertilize accordingly.
Where is the best place to search for a used 2 row corn planter for sale, like the one you showed with the ability to pull behind an ATV?
My dad found the one we bought on Facebook Marketplace. Marketplace seems to be probably the most popular site to find good deals on old used equipment. We got ours for $400, the guy gave us a lot of different plates for different seed population options. As you see it works great for planting beans not just corn.
This style of planter is one of the only corn players that you can pull with an atv/utv. It only weighs around a couple hundred pounds and you can we pull it fairly easy with our 700 king quad and 700 grizzly. In my opinion this planter is the perfect option for food plotters if you don’t want to spend a lot.
How many inches (Rows and plants) apart do you plant your corn?
I do not really know the seeding rate or population. I used an old 2 row planter as you saw. One of the corn spots I double planted almost every row. It’s set up at 38in rows. So double planting meaning going over twice planting in between the 38in row. So all the rows were roughly 15-20 in. The spacing between plants was around 6-8in in between each seed I’m guessing.
I'm planting winter rye grain seed on a new plot maybe 15 by 40 feet never did it before but I'm determined. Bush hog or cut the grass, spray it then come back in a week till it and spread the seed?
That sounds like it will work, just wait a little bit until the grass comes back to spray to get a good kill. I am actually planning on doing a similar planting of winter rye in a small plot.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 What about if I give it a good tilling and then spread the seeds since winter rye is known to supress the weeds and take over. Do you think that will work? I never did it before.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 Without spraying. Thank you again I appreciate the information.
You could try it without spraying, but it being a first year plot you may need to till once and some weeds and grass will comeback due to all the roots and sod layer, then till a week later and then plant. 2 tillings will have a much better kill.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 Wow thank you that makes alot of sense. Thank you.
The better corn was planted into the brassica plot last year. Basically free fertilizer.
That’s the issue I’m guessing. You didn’t fertilize. But you don’t need to into a prior year brassica plot.
Do you think the brassicas release nitrogen like beans do when breaking down and dying off? Because I did notice that in another area but I wasn’t sure if that was what caused the accelerated growth.
Wisconsin Whitetail yeah brassica provide natures ferilizer. That’s why I rotate corn and brassica plots sometimes. Even more so than beans.
Do you sell that corn?
No
Have you ever planted soybeans in corn? I was thinking about it this year. your thoughts?
Yeah I have alternated rows but never broadcasted them together. I like planting them separately, but in a lot of plots I try to do plant both side by side for a variety. That way the deer have everything they want in late season.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 appreciate your reply
I bet cultivating would help.