Planted summer plots today

We are off 563 by buffalo

I could only plant today and the forecast shows a chance every day this week.

I hate the apple weather app though. And I hate them even more since they bought and dismantled DarkSky

2.24 acres of summer mix from Bluff Farms in the center and did the outside parts of the field with brown top millet.

1.2 acres of 20lbs Clay Peas and 30 lbs browntop millet

Disced, harrowed smooth, burned with Glyphosate last week.

Did soil tests a few months ago and said to add lime and nitrogen

Did one ton of lime in all my fields (10 tons total) about three weeks ago

Did the right amount of fertilizer


I’m trying so hard to get this right and move to no till buffalo method using the drill, Crimper, and saving on fertilizer

Trying to move away from corn and protein

It would be nice to get one big shower a little after dark

Nice!

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Well, zero rain last night and now the forecast has zero rain chances after this afternoon. This always happens

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I tried to plant summer plots once. And this is why I won’t do it again. I switched to mineral sites for the summer and food plots for the fall/winter. My thoughts are that there’s plenty for deer to eat in the spring and summer.

ETA: got some pretty good bone growth so far.

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My thoughts are that there’s plenty for deer to eat in the spring and summer.

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I agree. The woodville area is chock full of browse right now. We are logging about 300 acres so there will be tons more.

I’m just trying to add protein to their diet year round.

I’m with you. Jan-Feb and August are touch. I’d say my research found that August is most critical for mother doe and fawns.

And I’m trying to get my soil ready for when CWD outlaws feeding.


Well it looks like my rain dance had the opposite effect. No rain in sight. FML

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How are you trying to do this? Buying bagged seed or making your own mix? Are you using a consultant? If you aren’t using a consultant, how did you decide on what soil samples to use? I’m about to put 50 acres into this program this fall. Possible up to 200 acres in it in the next 5 years or so.

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My seed and site selection was done last summer by a well known wildlife biologist. I researched soil health and Ray Archuleta and Grant Woods from the GrowingDeertv YouTube channel.

I did the soil samples and took them to Mrs Ann at the MS State Extension office in woodville. Then told her what we were doing and she funnels my questions to the wildlife department, soil department and forestry department at MSU. Listen to Deer University podcast if you ever get a chance. I’m also reading a whitetail biology book.

Then I talked to my co-op and they pointed me in the right direction for fertilizer and seed. B&H is good too. But I’m going to use greencover.com seeds when the cover crop is done.

Last phase is to actually buy the Crimper and drill. I’ve done a lot of research and unfortunately the only one that’s fool proof and heavy enough is the Genesis and it’s like 12k

Anyway, everyone around woodville looks at me like I’ve got two heads when I explain this method of feeding

I hope I’m wrong but everyone putting out four tons of protein a year is about to be racing to get their soil right when CWD gets here.


Anyway, if done right I can produce up to 6k lbs per acre of food a year. That’s 60k on my property now. I’ll have more food plots or feeding plots next year when the logging is done.


If I had started this method last year, I wouldn’t be praying for rain right now either.


If you’d like to talk about it, give me a call three three seven three seven zero eight nine five nine. Maybe if you’re close enough we can split the drill/Crimper cost

I’ll go check it out