NO TILL DRILL, THROW N GROW, OR FULL TILLAGE FALL FOOD PLOTS HD 1080p
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I go over the 3 methods for planting fall food plots, using a no till drill, using no till throw and grow, or working the soil with a disk or tiller and planting. Food plotters are wanting to have successful food plots that consistently hold more deer on their farm during the deer hunting season, giving them more opportunities to fill their tags. Nothing is more frustrating than spending countless hours and $$$ working on food plots and in the end the food plot failed and you have nothing to hunt over. Have more success with fall food plots by watching this video and learning the methods used to be successful.
Yes sir. Followed all your advice and my plots are looking great and getting pounded but not destroyed. I even used your corn planting tips to use as screening randomly around my plots to force deer to have to move around to see and for the first time I have great corn growing. My spacing has left me with just enough room for some brassica touch up in a few weeks. Thanks bud for all the help. Getting that correct PH and then the correct fertilizer has really paid off.
You’ve been a pleasure to work with and I am very happy that your plots turned out well! You deserve it after all the work you put it! Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots!
Wes.....I commented on your last video as to our procedure of planting our food plots. We lightly disc, lightly rototill, broadcast the seed, cultipack and wait for rain. We are getting rain tonight after planting 6 days ago, we anticipate great fall food plots. We don't have the luxury of planting when a rain is in the forecast due to work pressures. Most of the notill equipment is very expensive and needs to be heavy and pulled by a larger tractor which we don't have. Our system has worked well for us offing us great success in attracting and harvesting mature bucks over the years. Thanks again for all the info you share, I agree totally. Bob SWWI
Yes sir! That’s the problem that I see is weight, the drills gotta be very heavy ti push through the thatch, if it’s not heavy enough it simply won’t cut through and put the seeds in the ground. Great timing on the rain!!! Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots!
Any solutions for common chickweed? When I work the soil for fall plots the chickweed explodes with my clover and brassica.
Work the soil….then wait for a good rain event, but don’t plant. Once you get the rain the chickweed will take off, then spray it with roundup and seed your clover and brassicas before the next rain event, not working the soil again. That will eliminate an entire generation of them. Thanks for watching, good luck with the plots
Agreed that the drill is best not happening for the average food plotters. Full tillage and rolling over it after broadcasting is what works best for me. Throw and grow is the absolute worst. I have some old pasture where the fescue is heavy and I'm killing it and rotating small flood plots through it. Then the next year in early spring I frost seed some clover and let the seed bank take over and turn it into a nice multi-species meadow.
Throw n grow is so tough, but it can be super easy if the stars line up…unfortunately they don’t most of the time. Sounds like you have a nice food plot program going! Good luck with the plots and thanks for watching
The no till broadcast method works well. You may have to use different cover crops like Buckwheat and an atv or utv with a sprayer in the back to spray as you knock the cover crop over with a cultipacker after you seed.
Yes sir, they all work and have their place in food plots! Thanks for watching
Seed first, then roll that thatch down and spray with Gly. Works great.
That does work well. I need to make a video on that as well! Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots
Do you worry about mycelium content, etc. when you’re tilling every year?
No I don’t, I don’t till every year, matter of fact I mainly do no till, but I do some tillage when I need to. Thanks for watching
Looks like the dreaded La Niña setting in this fall, going to hot and dry and hell on some fall foodplots. 😩
Yeah we missed 3 days of good rain chances this week, now we don’t have any rain in the forecast for 10 days! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ not going to be good for all the fall plots I just planted
Question. How long can Nitrogen sit on the ground before a rain? In other words if I only have Wednesday to fertilize but rain won't be here until Saturday will I loose the Nitrogen? That's just an example it could be 4 days or 10 I don't know.
Thank you, keep up the good work.
Great question, you would likely lost some but it’s usually less than 10%. Most of the volatilization happens the first couple of days. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots
@@DIYfoodplotpro thank you so much!
Wes, on thing that's never mention by you and others is simply MOWING.
if you can seed (broadcast) into standing debris, just take a riding lawnmower after seeding.
Been doing it for years.
Great content as always.
You talk funny though. Lol.
Hahahaha you’re not the first to mention I talk funny!!! Haha. Yes sir, mowing can definitely work! Thanks for watching
A big thank you Plot Professor for sharing this really helpful instructional video!! Just wondering if you learned all this taking regular classes in school or whether you gain all this knowledge while attending the School of Hard Knocks?
Thank you sir! I learned it over the years mostly in the field trial and error but definitely learned alot in school as well. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots
I'm only on my 4th year of food plotting so I'm still a novice but by listening to Wes I ca grow a good food plot with very little equipment. I start with a soil test, buy good seed from Northwoods Whitetail(they also have good instructions), use a drag harrow to loosen up the soil a little, broadcast, drag, roll it with a lawn roller and listen to Wes's advice! I do all this when there's a good chance of rain over a couple days. I have shale, clay and a little bit of topsoil but brassicas, oats, winter peas, rye will grow well if I do the work. Thank you Wes!. I'll never qualify for FFA but I'm trying!
Sounds like you have a very good foot plot program going on! Glad to hear you are having success on a variety of food plots! Thanks for watching
Thanks Wes, I went to no till broadcasting, it works pretty good but you are at the mercy of the rain. It’s always my most stressful time
Absolutely correct, you gotta have to the rains right after planting with no till broadcasting Thanks for watching and commenting!
Wes, do you usually seed right after tilling or do you wait a week or so then hit the weeds with glyphosate? If we didn’t do the latter we’d be overrun with foxtail and other weeds.
@@johnmanganello4551 it’s best to let it rain on it and get the weeds and grass seed to germinate then spray and kill them, then plant. But with spotty rain chances I’ve done it both ways. I prefer to spray it after it’s worked, but this year since we’ve had very few rain chances in August, I’m planting without spraying. I can clean grasses up in this plot, since I’m not planting cereal grains at the same time. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots
Wes. I have the air crow set up. So good so far. I'll let you know how long it takes em to get use to it. This is a berry farm application.....
I'll bet it won't take long. I used to have a dog on a long cable near my garden, just shy of a few apple trees. As soon as apples started dropping the deer figured out how long the dog's cable was and feasted on the apples. The dog, seeing how barking at the deer didn't have any effect, gave up and would just lie down and watch. LOL
It worked really well for me! I just pulled mine out of the field this week. Let me know how it works! Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots
For me it’s not about trying to keep them out the entire year, it’s about putting it out there when it’s critical, let the plants get some growth where they can be browsed and not be grazed down to the ground, then pulling it before the deer get use to it. Worst thing that can happen is the deer get use to any deterrent.
@@DIYfoodplotpro Makes sense!
@@DIYfoodplotpro Wes I had a resident doe come up about 15ft to smell it a day ago so she's not scared. But it is still keeping most the other deer away. This is a perennial garden loaded with berries right now and these deer are so domesticated I can walk up about 20 ft from them and they won't run unless I yell or something. So it's actually working pretty good still. I plan to just put it out as the berries are turning ripe like now because they get use to anything within a few days after losing their fear of you. You name it and I do it as far as deer deterrent. Constantly switching it up
Cool decoy
I meant to say deterrent
Thanks, it has worked well for me! Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots
Hey Wes great videos! Thank You!! What's the best way to fertilize a fall plot thats a few weeks old without damaging a lot of the crop? TY!
What crops are we fertilizing? If using the nitrogen I’d rather burn it a little when it’s young than when the plants get big and are already nitrogen deficient. Just make sure the plants are dry, and it’s very best to do it right before a rain.