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Yesterday I stopped and talked to the farmer, who I know, about the deer usage in those alfalfa fields. I told him I had not seen as much late season usage in years past. He thought it was because last year (2025) was the first year they cut a 5th crop. He said with cutting it late (very end of...

I've been driving past a 20 and 30 acre field of straight alfalfa since spring of last year. An area with very little hunting pressure. Deer have been in these fields all summer, fall and winter. What's kind of surprised me how hard they hit those alfalfa fields in late December and into...

Sorry for your loss Foggy.

I bought the Earthway 25 pound bag spreader for $51.98 and free shipping. I don't see those on sale very often.

I used old office chairs in the hard sided blinds this year. The chairs were a little noisy so I sprayed lubricant to get rid of some of the squeaks. Next season I'll tighten all of the bolts and respray with a lubricant. Having armrest, swivel, padding and height adjustment is very nice...

A few minutes ago.

Southern Wisconsin here. Plenty of snow on the ground and cold temperatures. I only have two cell cameras active. Each camera over a brassica plot. Yesterday I got over 400 pictures. Doe activity all day. From the photos I have saved, the last five days bucks have started hitting the brassicas...

Yes, I saw deer all weekend. I shot a doe on Saturday. I agree, this weekend looks good. The forecast is showing snow all day Saturday (3-5 inches). Windy and cold weather. I plan to hunt Thursday through Sunday. Most of the time I'll be sitting in heated blinds over my brassica plots. If I...

Thanks for the advice.

Bump. After years of searching I finally found a cultipacker for sale in my area! It's 4' with the heavy old cultipacker wheels. I only have 1.5 acres of food plots so the size should be fine. I'll pull it with my UTV. No more packing with just the UTV tires. Got it for $500.

Thanks Bill, that makes a lot of sense. What is your strategy when this happens?

Trail camera picture question...all summer and fall I've had doe/fawns on camera almost every morning and evening. Also, I've had mature bucks on camera (mostly at night). Starting about October 31st the doe/fawns and mature bucks have disappeared from my cameras. I occasionally get the same...

Same, I have a number of his post bookmarked. RIP.

An update to my brassica planting. I planted August 8th. 3-4 days later the plots received over 4 inches of rain. Unfortunately in the last 33 days they have only received about 0.10" of rain. Deer are in the plots almost every evening. Some pics...

Thanks for the tip!