Are Your Food Plots Cool? (636)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2021
- See how we get our food plots to stay "cool" even on hot summer days. Four years ago this food plot was low quality hardwoods with very poor soil. Now we have a high quality food plot that is a great hunting location that feeds deer throughout the year. The Release Process shown in this video preserves soil moisture, suppresses weeds without herbicide, adds organic material to build more soil - all while reducing the cost to establish a food plot.
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I started this Process five years on my property in northern Indiana its works really well for my sandy soil I have so many deer here now its Incredible thanks Mr grant for all the great videos
Gabe Brown does this in North Dakota and it works very well for him, he makes more money this way than he did farming the conventional way. Look him up on TH-cam there are a lot of videos available on how he does it.
Bill - Thanks for sharing your results!
Each video that this gentleman shares, has a lot of great info.👊🏽Love this channel!👍🏽
Glad you like them!
Love the enthusiasm for mud. Such a simple thing to have ground cover to preserve moisture. Great video.
Thanks Kurt! It's exciting to build quality soil on rocks!
Love it! Dr. Woods, you have convinced me... good stuff.
Thanks!
Thanks for your previous reply to my question, but I didn't get a complete answer. Can the no-till method work if we don't have a seed drill? We have been using this method for 5 years and our fields looked worse than ever last season. We didn't plant last Summer. Last Fall we sprayed a herbicide, very lightly disked the fields, maybe a 1/4", threw out the seed with a rotary spreader, and then cultipacked it. We didn't have much of a thatch base. Where did we go wrong: not having a seed drill of not enough mulch on the ground? We are in South Alabama. Thanks for your videos!
What should I be planting in zone 7 in July-August?
The Fall Release blend from GreenCoverFoodPlots.com
Just got out of the Army and moved back home. I’m looking forward to hunting once again on my homeland. Thank you for your very informative videos. Please keep this incredible content coming. God bless
Thanks for ur services!
Thanks for your service!!
Excellent video we appreciate the continued insight!
Thanks!
Still learning after all these years. Appreciate the information. I have a mixture of slow release and tilling food plots.
Thanks Jacob!
Can you post the link to your blends? Thank you.
Sure! GreenCoverFoodPlots.com
What is a realistic goal for increase % in organic matter over time with the Release Process?
Heavenly Game Farm - We've seen increases of 5% plus at the Proving Grounds!! There are many variables but following the principles of soil health, soils can improve quickly!
Awesome method 👍🏻
Thanks!
I’ll be ordering one of ur blends
Thanks!
Where can you go to find your blends?
GreenCoverFoodPlots.com
Hoping to get a blend of yours in the ground for fall! Thank you for the awesome videos and keep them coming!
Thanks Matt! Checkout GreenCoverFoodPlots.com
Will this work by just broadcasting the mix or does it have to be drilled?
Jeff - Drilling always results in better seed placement - especially if much organic matter as built up and the organic matter is necessary to suppress weeds. Most NRCS offices rent drills very inexpensively.
A complete docket that outlines say a 2-3 year rotation, and which blends you like to follow with each other would be beneficial. I like the grains with the forages, and would think that mulch yields good insect fauna for the turkeys!
You are correct about the insects! I'll see what I can do about a docket. However, I continue to learn and tweak my system!
Amazing video. I have always had several clover plots specifically for (Spring Turkey) Release process..your seed. do they like the multi seed mix just as much. I'd rather do exclusively Buffalo system and touch it a handful of times a year versus clover, spraying, mowing ect. Would you summer and fall blend seed work as well or better in late April and May when our turkey season is in?
Ryan - Turkeys certainly use and benefit from those blends! However, pending on where you hunt, the Fall Release might be a bit tall for toms to strut in during May. If the Summer Release was already planted through the standing Fall Release, then all should be well! Turkeys like short vegetation for strutting so their wings are pushing vegetation. I agree with you, clover requires a lot of work!
@@GrowingDeerTV Thank you, makes perfect sense. Appreciate your reaponse.
How do you control/remove blackberry in pasture field? Can I plant over them and would that eventually smother the blackberry out?
Kin - You'll likely need to use glyphosate. Blackberries have a big root system and can survive lots of physical damage. In addition, they are taller than most forage crops - certainly forage crop seedlings - and the berries will shade our the crop - not the crop shading out the berries.
When should I spray herbicide to kill the blackberry?
Can this work if you don’t have a seed drill? Will lightly scraping the surface and cultipacking the seeds in be enough?
Better to use fire to create the seedbed than disturbing the soil.
This is truly amazing. 4 years is a short amount of time to see this much of a transition. I'm hoping to see similar results on my property in a couple of years. I'm basically starting at ground zero this year, so the finish line definitely seems a far way off.
Stay the course - it will pay big results!
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Howdy!
I'm wondering if you have ever studied what food plot mix would be the best for deer and also honey bees?
Blends that have species that produces flowers throughout the growing season. There's great native vegetation at my place and there's flowers from early spring till a heavy frost!
I've watched your videos closely all winter and are trying to follow your processes by the book this year. My Eagle large lads are all coming up but haven't received a rain here in Franklin Co Missouri since the day I planted. My duff appears to be working because the beans are up and healthy. I saw what you called mares tail. I have some of that along with pig weed. They're still short and immature. I didn't understand if you said Round Up would kill them when they're still small or would that be futile? Also, are the beans safe to be sprayed if they're small. They've got 2-3 sets of leaves. Thanks for sharing, very informative.
Jack - Congratulations on having a good plot! It won't harm young Roundup Ready beans to be sprayed - but there are many varieties of marestail and pigweed that are Roundup resistant.
I’m looking at plant a small plot taking up my back yard to give deer something more than the yellow corn they are accustomed to for attractant. The yard is covered in healthy grass minimal weeds. Do I need to cut the grass as low as I can prior to or spray a herbicide to kill it or simply broadcast over it before a good rain? I plan on planting the early fall blend but would like to be able to plant something as well to last into the winter. Is that possible if so recommendations? Located in south Mississippi
Nic - Most herbicides like glyphosate need leaf surface area to be effective. It will be best to not mow that area and let it get 6" or more tall before spraying.
What do you recommend for people with small food sources and dont use orjustify a drill or crimper?
Steve - We frequently share the techniques we use with hand tools. It's necessary to insure the seeds make contact with the soil!
Did you have to add lime your food plot after clearing? or did the release/buffalo process take care of the PH.
He said he spread chicken litter which will neutralize the acid...
JM - I haven't added any lime. I did add litter once. The process of the plants decaying will neutralize the soil.
Great Video! So what do I do in my plots that have clover and wheat from last fall. I would like to put in fall blends. Would I broadcast seed and then mow? I dont want to disk if I dont have to.
Silver - if the clover is green and lush, it will outcompete the new seedlings. If the clover is browning a bit, you plan will work!
Have you ever compared the yield from your release system vs conventional farming? I think the reason most 90% + farmers don’t use this system is because they would go broke.
I like the idea of soil conservation and building the soil but if our farmers can’t make a living doing it are we better off?
Luke - Actually regenerative ag farmers are usually more profitable. The get about the same yield and have way fewer expenses. There's much published about this if you care to learn. Not paying for GMO corn, fertilizer, insecticides, fungicides, fewer passes in the field, etc., add up to big savings!
@@GrowingDeerTV I will investigate further. I guess 90 % of the row crop farmers are dumbasses.
Very informative as always. Bit of a random question but here goes. My family plans on thinning our overgrown pasture in the coming couple years and are considering prescribed fire. There's also alot of buckthorn in this area and I know it's extremely invasive in my state. Will prescribed fire kill buckthorn or is another method of treatment needed? I don't want to spread the problem or have it come back
Multiple growing season (August or so) prescribed fires will control hardwood saplings. Dormant season fires rarely control saplings. If growing season fires aren't an option, then herbicide is needed.
@@GrowingDeerTV past years our augusts have been very dry so sounds like herbicide might be best then
Grant, will this process work with broadcasting with a hand seeder and crimping?
Yes - if the seed make good contact with the soil and you can crimp at the correct times (when the standing crop is producing seed in the dough stage).
@@GrowingDeerTV thanks for the reply. Im looking to have a crimper built for my tractor but many are telling me to stick to discing with our heavy soils and are trying to convince me it won't work here. Id love to prove them wrong.