Ive learned so much off this channel, slowly over the past few hunting seasons with all these TH-cam videos I’ve improved our hunting plot from a zero to probably a 5-6 out of 10. Thankyou. It’s payed off big time for a NC whitetail hunter
This old dog has learned so much from your utube channel I have applied several things from you lastest one is the stick hanging from a tree limb first evening they started using it. Thanks for what you do. Keep up the good work. Bob from ky.
I would add that anyone who tries the buckwheat smother crop for the first time and struggles with weeds and moisture levels in that first year, don't give up on it. It DOES work! Last year was a rough start due to me not spraying it in time before the buckwheat planting and then a small drought hit not allowing my brassica and bean and pea plots to grow. The rye saved the plots for sure and this year right now, the plots are completely weed free. This year will go way better. Don't give up on these methods even if you start out rough! It absolutely works!
Very important thing to take from this video is fall TONNAGE. Small plots need to produce tonnage. Spring / summer is time to build soil, fall - winter we need tonnage. The kitchen sink blends can not produce the tonnage like the strip plots can.
This advice to use rye if needed later in the year allowed me to save a few plots last year due to my POB plantings that died out due to lack of rain. Thanks for the continued advice to the deer hunting community across the US!
Danny from NC Texas land trying to learn all I can. Drought conditions generally try grow any and everything for wildlife restoration of prairie and mesquite woods.
You have hammered this home diversity looks great but it does challenge your tonnage for sure I'm going with the buckwheat soon to build on the soil and then I'm going to do the strip method later but I'm also going to add some corn around the perimeter this year and oh yeah the wall of Egyptian wheat for those prying eyes
Plant sugar beets in mid-May, nothing else needed. Deer won't touch then until late September and you'll find just about every shed antler from the entire herd come Spring. It's hard to beat the draw and the tonnage, nothing else compares.
Jeff thanks for your videos. I certainly missed how you suggest to eliminate the winter rye in late spring early summer. Then start the next crop for fall.
Northeast ohio here...enjoy all the info you share! When should I be planting my plot. No ag fields near me at all. Have 20 acres half is grown up vegetation and half wooded.should I only do fall plot?
Hey Jeff, awesome stuff! We just purchased a new drill. With your combo, could you drill in beans, pees, and brassicas at the same time? Then have a side plot of oats, then overseed all of it with cereal rye come September? This is about 3 acres. Thanks and thank you again for all this information!
Love your video’s buddy. No one these days as us old school boys know what hunting is only one Difference between me and you I never use a trail camera always look at soundtracks what goes on in the woods years of Scouting tells me what goes on on. Cameras are a means of laziness just hunt
What do you do June- September with layered rye? Talking about very small narrow plot with little desirable ag around. Buckwheat won't make it past the "chomp".
Thanks for all he great info. Planting corn this week and will plant the buckwheat the first week of June. Question...when planting our food plot mixes into the Buckwheat is it best to 1. Broadcast the seed, 2. cultlpack 3. and then spray with roundup? thanks, Bob
Jeff, would you broadcast buckwheat straight into your standing rye? My plots look exactly like yours right now but I don’t think I’ve heard you say how are you actually plant your buckwheat.
Long story as to the reason why I’ll leave that out. But last fall I did the rye layering (erosion control) in the way you describe. I had deer on that field everyday, daylight and evenings, it was remarkable to see. ( I frost seeded switchgrass into it I don’t want a food plot in this location). Thanks for all your tips!
Thanks for all of the great information in your videos. I have a question on whether clover can be planted after I have cultipacked the rye in? My thought is soil improvement for next fall and food for next spring. Thanks again for all the great planting videos!
It does fairly well. Yiu plant at the timing for Rue, and plant the entire per acre for clover. At that time. Then mow out the rye or spray with Clethodim, next spring.
I'm sure you have had a similar question in the past, but what type of switchgrass do you recommend planting for cover? You're a huge proponent of switchgrass, but are there different varieties? If so, what specific species do you recommend planting? I live in Minnesota near Glencoe and have family that lives down in your area. Where do you get your seed mix?
Would winter rye and clover be an appropriate mix for a brand new food plot in central Wisconsin? this plot would be about an acre. we have another plot where we have brassicas and oats and the farmer does a corn field.
Last year I planted an acre each of John comps sweet feast brassica blend and eagle seed smorgasbord "kitchen sink blend" noticed 4 time's as many deer all October and November in the eagle seed plot and it got hammered to the ground
Looking to start a food plot in the UP of Michigan, Bessemer area this year. What's a good starter crop and do or can you recommend a brand of seed. Thanks in advance Jeff!
Great video and thank you for sharing your knowledge. What is your opinion on spreading cow manure to build better soil on a new Michigan plot (Newaygo area)
I have some horrible clay soil in southern ohio. Any suggested first steps. Buckwheat first I'm just planting a gas line hill and into the woods. 1 acer
I went to my local co-op I explained to them I’m planting a 1-1/2 acre plot for fall he sold me a 14lb bag mix of radish turnips and rape for a fall plot mix I explain to them that I am doing a shoulder bag broadcasting and not using a cedar the bag to me as a beginner Food Plots starter looks a little small what is your take on how many pounds per plant I should be planning in this one and a half acre plot
i do have a question jeff and not sure if this is the place to ask, or if i will get a response or not . but would you personally try to say cut a 1/4 acre plot in half with screening material/seed? also screen the out side edge?
Could I do a single layer of oats only and then come back with rye sept 1st and maybe again a few weeks later? Mostly wooded area in Central WA..about the same latitude as Duluth, MN.
just purchased Northwoods whitetail no till barrasica. I have a field of wild grass and weeds maybe an acre, my plan is in August to kill it all with glysophate( probably spelled that wrong) and spread the mix out in September. is this ok.
That won't be enough of a kill to lower the weed debris. You would need to spray immediately, them again mid July and then I always spray a 3rd time at planting time...mid August. Each spraying has to be about 4 to 5 weeks apart and the first spraying is always best in early to mid may. You can still make it work but 1 spraying won't cut it because the thatch and weed debris will shade out the new growth...even if dying or dead. You also won't get a very good kill because weeds are entering their Summer dormancy by then.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thank you so much you don't know or maybe you do how much you and your team are appreciated. Love you guys. Recently read that they were no longer gonna make glyphosate after 2023. Is there any other alternative that really works.
I'd like to have Jeff more specifically define northern settings. Ohio, lower Michigan, the UP? Seems clover attraction would be significantly different in Ohio in November than the UP or even lower Michigan. Yet, they are all considered northern settings.
That's what I do on the PBO portion, since the plants aren't growing to maturity, the variety isn't as important IMO, and shipping big bags of seed is expensive. Brassicas though are making it to maturity, and even with a little bit of shipping expense, it's tough to beat the blend from Northwoods Whitetails.
Hey Jeff can you do a video about small food plots in the woods? I’m 24 new land owner and I don’t have a lot of room for big plots and idk what to plant
I have 98 acres of pure wooded mountain ground in WV. It was timbered 30 years ago. I’ve worked this spring cutting out all trees except the oaks in a ten thousand square foot area. Cleared all the debris on the ground down to dirt and just applied 1800 pounds of lime which soil test indicated. I plan to plant whitetail institute winter greens as a trial run this September. I also have a fertilizer mix that needs to be placed down at time of planting. It should be good to go once the acorns are gobbled up early October. Not sure if this helps, just a trial and error for me as this is the first year owning the property. It’s hard on extreme mountain ground, but chose the flattest, or least sloped area for the plot. It faces south to southwest so it should get plenty of sunlight. Had a lot of wild vines that I cut chest high on the fringes of the plot as a licking branch/scrape area.
When you say your 2nd and 3rd spray of glyphosate should be 4-6 weeks apart do you mean both sprays within that time period or spray once wait 4 weeks, spray again then wait another 4 weeks for the 3rd and final spray? Thanks!
I learn something from every video- like a college education these past 3 years- I've watched every video. Thanks Jeff.
I take notes while watching. Gotta get my PhD in whitetailology. The Dr. Deer title belongs to Jeff tho lol
Ive learned so much off this channel, slowly over the past few hunting seasons with all these TH-cam videos I’ve improved our hunting plot from a zero to probably a 5-6 out of 10. Thankyou. It’s payed off big time for a NC whitetail hunter
This old dog has learned so much from your utube channel I have applied several things from you lastest one is the stick hanging from a tree limb first evening they started using it. Thanks for what you do. Keep up the good work. Bob from ky.
I would add that anyone who tries the buckwheat smother crop for the first time and struggles with weeds and moisture levels in that first year, don't give up on it. It DOES work! Last year was a rough start due to me not spraying it in time before the buckwheat planting and then a small drought hit not allowing my brassica and bean and pea plots to grow. The rye saved the plots for sure and this year right now, the plots are completely weed free. This year will go way better. Don't give up on these methods even if you start out rough! It absolutely works!
Buckwheat doesn’t grow in the deep south.
@@MyVisualRomanceit does in southeast Louisiana
Very important thing to take from this video is fall TONNAGE.
Small plots need to produce tonnage. Spring / summer is time to build soil, fall - winter we need tonnage. The kitchen sink blends can not produce the tonnage like the strip plots can.
Broke down and got a 26 gallon s prayer yesterday with the hand wand and boomless really trying to get ready for the season
This advice to use rye if needed later in the year allowed me to save a few plots last year due to my POB plantings that died out due to lack of rain. Thanks for the continued advice to the deer hunting community across the US!
what is your wed site for your products?
All of your videos are a complete game changer!
I make many playlists of your vids and this one went over questions I’ve had for a while. Thank you !
Thanks Jeff👍 Good stuff! Have a great day all!
Danny from NC Texas land trying to learn all I can. Drought conditions generally try grow any and everything for wildlife restoration of prairie and mesquite woods.
trying your blend this year! along with some winter rye broadcasting
You have hammered this home diversity looks great but it does challenge your tonnage for sure I'm going with the buckwheat soon to build on the soil and then I'm going to do the strip method later but I'm also going to add some corn around the perimeter this year and oh yeah the wall of Egyptian wheat for those prying eyes
As Always, another great video...buckwheat ready, but spraying weeds is tuff with all the recent rain here in Missouri.
Great video. How and when do you terminate the rye?
What setting on your Earthway spreader to you use for Brassica and Buckwheat?
Plant sugar beets in mid-May, nothing else needed. Deer won't touch then until late September and you'll find just about every shed antler from the entire herd come Spring. It's hard to beat the draw and the tonnage, nothing else compares.
Do you kill the rye the following year and replant it the next year?
Jeff thanks for your videos. I certainly missed how you suggest to eliminate the winter rye in late spring early summer. Then start the next crop for fall.
Thanks for sharing! how do you know if you have enough foodplot acres to incorporate corn into your food plot program after planting your greens?
Northeast ohio here...enjoy all the info you share! When should I be planting my plot. No ag fields near me at all. Have 20 acres half is grown up vegetation and half wooded.should I only do fall plot?
Hey Jeff, awesome stuff! We just purchased a new drill. With your combo, could you drill in beans, pees, and brassicas at the same time? Then have a side plot of oats, then overseed all of it with cereal rye come September? This is about 3 acres. Thanks and thank you again for all this information!
Beans or peas with brassica, but you'll have to adjust your rates.
Love your video’s buddy. No one these days as us old school boys know what hunting is only one Difference between me and you I never use a trail camera always look at soundtracks what goes on in the woods years of Scouting tells me what goes on on. Cameras are a means of laziness just hunt
What do you do June- September with layered rye? Talking about very small narrow plot with little desirable ag around. Buckwheat won't make it past the "chomp".
Thanks for all he great info. Planting corn this week and will plant the buckwheat the first week of June. Question...when planting our food plot mixes into the Buckwheat is it best to 1. Broadcast the seed, 2. cultlpack 3. and then spray with roundup? thanks, Bob
Jeff, would you broadcast buckwheat straight into your standing rye? My plots look exactly like yours right now but I don’t think I’ve heard you say how are you actually plant your buckwheat.
Great show brother keep it up and thanks
Long story as to the reason why I’ll leave that out. But last fall I did the rye layering (erosion control) in the way you describe. I had deer on that field everyday, daylight and evenings, it was remarkable to see. ( I frost seeded switchgrass into it I don’t want a food plot in this location).
Thanks for all your tips!
Thank u some much u have helped me a lot these year my property.
Thanks for all of the great information in your videos. I have a question on whether clover can be planted after I have cultipacked the rye in? My thought is soil improvement for next fall and food for next spring. Thanks again for all the great planting videos!
Great info as usual. I was wondering how rye does with clover? Say like 85% rye and 10% clover
It does fairly well. Yiu plant at the timing for Rue, and plant the entire per acre for clover. At that time. Then mow out the rye or spray with Clethodim, next spring.
I'm sure you have had a similar question in the past, but what type of switchgrass do you recommend planting for cover? You're a huge proponent of switchgrass, but are there different varieties? If so, what specific species do you recommend planting? I live in Minnesota near Glencoe and have family that lives down in your area. Where do you get your seed mix?
What setting do you use on the earthway bag spreader for north woods whs green forage blend?
Did you ever find that answer?
Would winter rye and clover be an appropriate mix for a brand new food plot in central Wisconsin? this plot would be about an acre. we have another plot where we have brassicas and oats and the farmer does a corn field.
Can you plant iron clay peas and oats together?
So what's the max that you would put in a mixed blend? 2. 4. 6
Last year I planted an acre each of John comps sweet feast brassica blend and eagle seed smorgasbord "kitchen sink blend" noticed 4 time's as many deer all October and November in the eagle seed plot and it got hammered to the ground
Looking to start a food plot in the UP of Michigan, Bessemer area this year. What's a good starter crop and do or can you recommend a brand of seed. Thanks in advance Jeff!
Great video and thank you for sharing your knowledge. What is your opinion on spreading cow manure to build better soil on a new Michigan plot (Newaygo area)
Jeff, should I mow or spray my rye plot from last year? Or let it rye-de... see what I did there 😂
I have some horrible clay soil in southern ohio. Any suggested first steps. Buckwheat first I'm just planting a gas line hill and into the woods. 1 acer
I went to my local co-op I explained to them I’m planting a 1-1/2 acre plot for fall he sold me a 14lb bag mix of radish turnips and rape for a fall plot mix I explain to them that I am doing a shoulder bag broadcasting and not using a cedar the bag to me as a beginner Food Plots starter looks a little small what is your take on how many pounds per plant I should be planning in this one and a half acre plot
Would you use electric fence if the deer eat it to fast??
i do have a question jeff and not sure if this is the place to ask, or if i will get a response or not . but would you personally try to say cut a 1/4 acre plot in half with screening material/seed? also screen the out side edge?
Could I do a single layer of oats only and then come back with rye sept 1st and maybe again a few weeks later? Mostly wooded area in Central WA..about the same latitude as Duluth, MN.
Ok so what can I plant with the brassicas? I’m wanting to make a good little kill plot
just purchased Northwoods whitetail no till barrasica. I have a field of wild grass and weeds maybe an acre, my plan is in August to kill it all with glysophate( probably spelled that wrong) and spread the mix out in September. is this ok.
That won't be enough of a kill to lower the weed debris. You would need to spray immediately, them again mid July and then I always spray a 3rd time at planting time...mid August. Each spraying has to be about 4 to 5 weeks apart and the first spraying is always best in early to mid may. You can still make it work but 1 spraying won't cut it because the thatch and weed debris will shade out the new growth...even if dying or dead. You also won't get a very good kill because weeds are entering their Summer dormancy by then.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thank you so much you don't know or maybe you do how much you and your team are appreciated. Love you guys. Recently read that they were no longer gonna make glyphosate after 2023. Is there any other alternative that really works.
Why are you so down on dwarf essex rape? The deer crushed mine and it's very low cost. Is it volume?? Mine grew quite tall with good soil.
I'd like to have Jeff more specifically define northern settings. Ohio, lower Michigan, the UP? Seems clover attraction would be significantly different in Ohio in November than the UP or even lower Michigan. Yet, they are all considered northern settings.
Is it a bad idea to just buy seed from a local co-op and mix it myself to these ratios you are saying?
That's what I do on the PBO portion, since the plants aren't growing to maturity, the variety isn't as important IMO, and shipping big bags of seed is expensive. Brassicas though are making it to maturity, and even with a little bit of shipping expense, it's tough to beat the blend from Northwoods Whitetails.
@@poplardeer Yeah, I don't have a lot of foodplot area and shipping the seed cost more than what the seed cost
Northern Mn here .. is it too late to plant switchgrass?
Hey Jeff can you do a video about small food plots in the woods? I’m 24 new land owner and I don’t have a lot of room for big plots and idk what to plant
I have 98 acres of pure wooded mountain ground in WV. It was timbered 30 years ago. I’ve worked this spring cutting out all trees except the oaks in a ten thousand square foot area. Cleared all the debris on the ground down to dirt and just applied 1800 pounds of lime which soil test indicated. I plan to plant whitetail institute winter greens as a trial run this September. I also have a fertilizer mix that needs to be placed down at time of planting. It should be good to go once the acorns are gobbled up early October. Not sure if this helps, just a trial and error for me as this is the first year owning the property. It’s hard on extreme mountain ground, but chose the flattest, or least sloped area for the plot. It faces south to southwest so it should get plenty of sunlight. Had a lot of wild vines that I cut chest high on the fringes of the plot as a licking branch/scrape area.
When you say your 2nd and 3rd spray of glyphosate should be 4-6 weeks apart do you mean both sprays within that time period or spray once wait 4 weeks, spray again then wait another 4 weeks for the 3rd and final spray? Thanks!
Spray. Wait 4-6 weeks. Spray again. Wait 4-6 more weeks, and spray a third time.
What about fertilizer?
Not to contradict you but I’ve had deer dig clover out of the snow, when it was my only food plot but yes less than ideal
Does Rye work well with Chickory in a small kill plot about 1/8 acre or less?
Yes
can you mix glyphosate with hose water? or will it neutralize the effects
What kind of water would you use otherwise?
When you say 100 pounds of peas 50 pounds of beans do you mean soybeans I take it?
I'm still waiting on a reply from someone, about your How to guide.
Sugar Beats
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How do you feel about using diesel gasoline to kill vegetation?
Plant marijuana. The deer absolutely hammer it! Then they get the munchies and stick around longer to eat more.
Huh 🤷♂️
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