Fall food plot planting dates.

I used to always plant as close to October 15 as possible and it always worked out.

Over the last five years we have had some years where that wasn't the best timing due to rain. I also have a lot of clay hill top fields vs a lot of bottom land fields. There is a huge difference in moisture requirements and while that seems plainly obvious it took a few years to realize this in practice that they can't always be planted at the same time.

So we plant mid October after we have had a rain to help the dirt and before another rain coming. We then come back and side dress with nitrogen approximately 2 weeks later when we can time it before a rain. This has led to our best fields yet in fall and summer. This year I will have a bumper harvest of summer cash crops doing this.

You should add location with the planned planting date . We are in Wilkinson County MS and the motto for planting anything is "plant late and harvest early"


We always go for mid October….but end up planting the first week of November due to lack of rain.

Although, I’m planning on planting some Domain Hot Chic (clover chicory) in smaller plots this year and I’ll try that in September

Yeah, some years we get burned by the food plot gods. We’ve planted between the October new moon and first quarter moon as long as I can recall regardless of weather. Supposedly this year is going to be a wetter, warmer fall/winter. We shall see.

I plan to throw my seed out the weekend prior to bow season and hope for rain.

I cut my foot plot down this past weekend to 4 inches. Bunch of clover underneath looking healthy. Plan to go spray some Arrest and Slay at the middle of August and end of September. Plan is to try and not disc it this year and see how it comes up with just broadcasting clover, oats, wheat and cereal rye.

Still another month before i even think about planting (south MS)

How early is too early to disc prior to planting?

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How early is too early to disc prior to planting?

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All my field are disced already. When it’s time to plant I’ll lightly disc them if needed as 2 plots were kinda dry last time i disced.

I did mine yesterday. I won’t be back up until October 10th and I just want to hunt. The dew will likely be enough to get it to sprout and hopefully we’ll have a little bit here and there.

Same here. I went and bought all the seed this week and left at the camp, but will disk and plant on a month or so.

I was about to post that it’s storming at our place! Hopefully it happens at least once a week so they get burned!