Food Plot Basics

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retrieverman

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I was on the fence about even planting a food plot this late, because I was seeing almost no deer even moving past this camera since acorns started dropping. However, the first day the BFO’s are up good, and the deer are in them. :thumb:
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I swung by @Hirschkopf place today on the way up to mine, and his food plot is coming along nicely. The pigs have made a real mess since the rain, but I didn’t see where they had been in the food plot.
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In case anyone is wondering, I only used my overseeder (poor man’s drill) on this plot, because I’m fairly confident that dropping a tiller into the ground would’ve drawn the pigs like magnet.
 

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I did an experiment this year with food plots here in east TX, and it turned out pretty good. I’ve never planted food plots on this property, because the only openings are just roads through the big pines and very shaded, but evidently enough light got to the ground for the seed to germinate and grow. The main experiment was that I didn’t plant until the middle of November. I bought more BFO’s than what I needed, and rather than just letting them sit in my barn in my way, I decided to give a late plot a try. These are just small hunting plots, but from camera activity and tracks in them, the deer are eating them.
This is the property where I kill pigs, and to keep from attracting them to the plots, the planting was done using no till with just my overseeder.
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