Food Plot Basics

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Oklahomabassin

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I’ve tinkered with plots before and they’ve always been spotty, so along with the lime and fertilizer, I wanted to use a cultipacker to make a good seed bed and press the seed into the dirt. Definitely going to plant some clover and want to give chicory a go, along with the usual cereal grains. I’m already nervous about doing so much work and it not turning out. Had I not read so much about how well a cultipacker works I woulda been the first one on board with chain link and pipe.
I have been doing plots for 10 years with discing, broadcasting seed and dragging over it with a 10' piece of cattle panel. (The 3/8" wire panel, not tubing) If it didn't work, I wouldn't still be doing it 10 years later.
 
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Finally got my food plots in on Monday at my place in OK (just wheat this year) and am planting here in TX today. I went by Deerslayer’s house on the way home and picked up my 4x4 mix, so the deer here will get more than just wheat. The 4x4 did great last year, and the deer and pigs actually still grazing the plantain from last years plot.
 

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Finally got my food plots in on Monday at my place in OK (just wheat this year) and am planting here in TX today. I went by Deerslayer’s house on the way home and picked up my 4x4 mix, so the deer here will get more than just wheat. The 4x4 did great last year, and the deer and pigs actually still grazing the plantain from last years plot.

Rained on your plots lol :)

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Rained on your plots lol :)

Oh I know. My youngest son is up there attempting to hunt, and he just texted me a few minutes ago that many of the roads are flooded. That’s a slam dunk that at least some if not all my place is flooded.:censored:

This is makes three plantings in a row that have gotten flooded. I’m starting to think food plots on that place aren’t meant to be, and I could’ve bought 3 tons of the protein I’m feeding for what just the seed cost me.:scratch:
 

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It will stop raining again one of these days and we'll be back to the drought years again. As much as I hate to say it, the drought was almost easier to deal with than the constant mud and rain.......even from the farming aspect.
 

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