Hand Broadcasting a Corn Food Plot
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video I am showing you the results of a hand broadcasted corn food plot. This plot was planted pretty late, Around late June and was only a few inches tall around the 4th of July.
When broadcasting corn is very easy to go too thick like I did in one of the spots you’ll see in this video. But this corn is doing really well considering it was planted so late. 
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Do you hold deer on that property? or is it more of a pass through and slow them down? You do a great job with showing the real side of management and its appreciated. If you want to try something with the thick corn, make a path barely wide enough through out it. I work in corn research and deer walk our paths which are 12 inch gaps all the time; might increase their ability to reach the thick inside.
There’s usually a resident doe with her fawns that beds on the property pretty regularly. I’ve gotten pics of daylight bucks in late October and November in the area for a day or so. I usually only hunt there 1-2 times a year. You’d have to be pretty lucky to be there the same day a big buck is on the property.
I knocked down some trails through the thick corn plot I had in the backyard last winter. Yes the extra openings and trails definitely encourages them to move around in the field more.
Watched a video the guy mixed 2 1/2 qt corn I bag of nitrogen fertilizer and 1/2 bag of soybeans on a 1/4 acre used a crank spreader turned out great
Hogs love pumpkins and chicken s too
You could over seed rye or winter wheat right in the soybeans as well. When they dry up then you'll have greens right in with them. 👌🏻
I know, I usually seed some winter rye into some of my beans on another property. This year I seeded rye in areas I plan to no-till corn into the rye next year.
Really enjoy the passion you put into growing food for wildlife. To me it’s not just about shooting something , looks like it is same for you.
Every year I see people with fancy new utvs and new trucks but they want spend any money on the wildlife.
👍 yes, I just really enjoy planting and growing stuff. Whether it be food plots, trees, cutting and creating bedding thickets anything where you alter the landscape to better the wildlife is just satisfying to see your hard work turn into results.
I am to the point where I definitely enjoy the habitat management as much as the Hunting and I know I definitely enjoy the shed hunting more than hunting. 50+ antlers a year is better than 2 LOL.
Great video, How did you plant all those pumpkin seeds? Broadcast?
No, the pumpkins were planted in hills of 3-5 seeds. Not actual hills where the dirt is mounded up, just 3-5 seeds in a spot. We plant them on a grid system so we can disc down the rows both ways to get great weed control before they start to crawl.
Thank you for the reply. I think my deer will love them, going to add a .5 acre next season
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Do you have many deer feed on left in the field pumpkins?
Not many. They will chew on a few in September-October. Not much. Just a few bite marks. But once they start to rot they won’t touch them. If you save some until winter in the garage and throw them out in January they will usually eat them pretty hard and eat almost the whole thing.
Did Dwarf RR Field Corn for the first time this year broadcast spreading. Have done Sunflowers for years on my channel with success but never corn. Thanks for the video, makes me excited that it can work!
It can definitely work. Just make sure not to go too thick like beans. If it does come in too thick I’m sure you could drive it over to make rows with the tires kinda.
I’ll have a better video this year showing broadcasting it by hand and discing it in.
Didnyou drag after u spread the corn?
No. All I did was disc, spread seed by hand. And then disced the seed in, corn can be covered up deep. Dragging the seed in would work too. But there will be some on the top or too shallow and won’t get as good of germination rates.
I will hopefully be coming out with a better video this year of a broadcasting corn showing my whole planting process. Not just the results.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 I have a tractor and plow. So I plow. But I wanna try broadcast this year and drag over since I have no discs
@@WesternNyBigfootyeah we plow a lot of our ground too. Then disc it. Without a disc your ground is going to be left very bumpy. You could definitely try and drag it to cover up the seed.
What's your seed rate?
I wouldn’t be able to tell you the seed population per acre or the rate I just kind of eyeballed it. I will be doing another broadcasting corn video this year with more detail and showing the planting process.
Ok inquisitive minds want to know--Is your black and blue thumb nail still growing out from last years mash or did you just squish it again? Hope not!! I tried your throw and grow corn patch with leftover deer corn. Stuff did fairly well and made me a nice screen. Thanks for the tip!!
Hit it again back in August 😆
I’ll probably make a more extensive video of broadcasting corn in this plot next year.
I mostly broadcast corn as a screen to make deer feel comfortable, and to divide up my plot. Any tips on calculating how much seed to put down?
Not sure on how much seed. I just kind of eyeballed it. I plan on doing another broadcasting corn video next year thinner is probably better than thicker cause when planted very thick the corn can root lodge and it will be a total loss, thinner you may get poor pollination but at least it won’t rot lodge, I guess If it is too thick you could always drive through with a four wheeler and smash some of it down when it is knee-high or so easy to kill at that height.
After you broadcasted the corn seeds, did you go over them with a cultipacker? Or did you let them
Sit on the surface?
No, I disced them under, just like my broadcasted bean plots. Next year I’ll have to make a video on broadcast planting corn.
Cab you drag it in instead of disc
try throwing some lime on the pumpkin fields, they might be low on calcium.
How do you know they are low on calcium?
I've enjoyed watching your videos for a few years!! You've grown in many ways into a man your parents can be super proud of.. keep up the great videos!!!
Thank you 👍
What varieties of pumpkin do you grow. I grow Ares, Kratos, and Gladiator. How much do you charge per pumpkin?
We grow Kratos and Gladiator same as you from Harris Seeds. The Kratos seems to make a little nicer pumpkins. Have you experienced a lot of rotting pumpkins when planted on the same ground for more than 2 yrs in a row?
We charge 1-$5. We have separate piles for each. $1, $2, $3, $4, and $5. We mainly have alot of basketball sized pumpkins and bigger. Not many small ones. A lot of 3-$5 pumpkins. What type of variety does the Ares grow?
Ares makes a tall shaped pumpkin rather than the globe shape of Gladiator and Kratos. It has a very strong and long stem/handle and weighs typically between 22-30lbs. I believe the rotting pumpkins is caused by Phytopthora fungus. Field rotation is the best prevention.
Thank you for all the great videos on your food plots! Good luck hunting this year!
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You should release 50 or 100 7 week old pheasants in those food plots they would do . I do food plots and release about 200 a year but I do hatch my own. I keep the breeding stock. I have food plots, CRP and cattail & willow swamp next to a lake...
Yeah the corn not being in rows would definitely make a great area for them to hide.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 I actually get my breeding stock from McFarlane in Wisconsin. I really like the Manchurian Cross pheasants, they are very flighty I've had really good luck with them. McFarlane actually imported wild genetics from China in 1990 or so then crossed them with their traditional game farm pheasants it made a great bird for releasing.
Dude the crows and deer would suck up all my seed corn like vacuum cleaners
Yeah either cranes, or other birds got a lot of non seed corn I planted. The thicker corn was the seed corn the thinner section on corn was harvested seed that I picked by hand from a field near by. Without the seed coating they eat even more of the he seed you plant.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 cool I wanna try planting a few lots come spring probably just use deer corn and see what happens it's grows in the back of my truck just fine😂
Nice video. U sure do a lot of planting for deer & that's awesome. When r u going to do your Rye?
I already seeded some rye in a few areas I plan to do no-till plantings into the rye. I seeded that around two weeks ago. I probably won’t do a video on the rye planting this year.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 how your hunting been going Ours open yesterday. Seen 2 really nice bucks today in my food plots just to far away
@@patrothwell9138 seen a few deer on public and private. Haven’t hunted the food plots that much
Best food plot videos on here
Thanks, I’ll have a full video showing the planting process of broadcasted corn this year.