Food plot screens

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Clumping bamboo. Quick and easy as well as evergreen. Just make sure it’s the clumping type

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Highly invasive. May as well plant tallow trees


OP switchgrass would work but there are varieties of switchgrass that can be pretty aggressive. If you can delay some gratification, the natural vegetation will provide cover within a year or two

10-4

We are going to burn it after cutting, so that may (hopefully) get the native grasses to grow with the extra sunlight hitting the ground.

Good point about the vehicles not stopping when using those access roads. Thanks

Ceaders or Russian Olive


Both will need to be controlled but that's not hard

Chickasaw plums are excellent natives for wildlife and form thickets. Will provide a good screen in a few years.

Why not reconsider where you are putting this plot? Seems like a lot of effort to do something with a major drawback. Id strongly consider options of putting it somewhere that doesn’t have human traffic.

8 acres is huge btw. A 1 acre food plot can be big enough. A couple acres certainly. 8 acres won’t need a screen, depending on where the traffic is the deer may be far enough Away to not be bothered.

Wish I could move it, but that is what I have to work with so trying to make the most of it. Egyptian wheat looks great, but would love a perennial instead of annual. Switchgrass looks great, but damn those seeds are expensive. It won't be an 8 acre food plot only - there will be some mast trees and cover included in those 8 acres, but most will be open. Thanks everyone for the recs - will likely burn it next winter then follow up with a switchgrass border and pockets next spring. Just gotta save my pennies until then.

I have planted Egyptian Wheat for the past several years as a cover screen. We have a large food plot and the levee is about 175 yards away and the neighbors are up and down the levee regularly during the day but relatively off it during morning and afternoon hunts. It does work. A couple things you need to know.
1. Its about $90.00 a bag so not to cheap.
2. When the winter freeze hits it hard it thins out pretty easily. I like to over plant but not to crazy because years I have over planted way way to much I believe that it has stunned its growth potential as there are to many roots competing for space to grow. But go a little heavy on your coverage rate.
3. It does work and has made the deer feel enclosed and protected. We have even noticed the deer bed down in it. I have hunted it an when some goes down the levee and there are deer in the plot in the middle of the day, the deer just look up in the direction of the car going down the levee. Before would be hard to get deer in this food plot, and it was 6 acres with peas, turnips, wheat, brassica, clover etc. Now we see about 6-8 in there regularly and at night it looks like a dance floor with does.
4. I am hunting in Ferriday just to give you an Idea where.
5. Not much to it we disc it, put the seeds out and pack with a culti packer or ride tractor and 4 wheeler.
6. It will take a full 90 days to get up to the 6-8 ft. height.
7. We also mix peas in with it as the peas grow they vine up the egyptian wheat. It is an annual so be prepared to mow it, spray it, disc and plant every year!
It does work though.