Joe Buck
5 year old buck +
First time on the site, new member. We have land we can hunt and put in small food plots in Adams County Wis. approx. 120 acres. The owner/farmer lets us use some of his equipment as well. The soil is extremely sandy and low ph. We have 60-70 acres swamp/ tag alders/. We have 10-15 acres of wooded highland, consisting of jack pine, red pine, white pine and a few red oak. Highland is east and north of swamp. He has a 35 acre field east of highland and swamp. On the west end of field ( butts up against highland ) he lets us plant a 20 yard wide by 330 yard long strip. It is a little over an acre. We have 4 other small foodplots in woods and along driveway each approx. 20 yds. by 20 yds. He has the field planted in corn again this year. My son has access to Bio-Logic brand products at a little over cost.
Last year we divided the 20 x 330 yd. section into 2- 10 x 330 yd. sections. One we planted with Deer Creek Seeds "Autumn Buffet" ( brassicas, rape, pt turnips, & 30% red & white clovers) we added some dakion radish to that mix. It turned out very good and the deer had it down to the ground by late bow season. A lot of the clover came up this spring which was great. We are planning on either killing what clover remains and planting the same thing or trying to overseed and cultipack with same mix. The other 10 yd. x 330yd. strip we planted in winter wheat. They feed on it all fall and it came up in spring. We have cut the wheat and clover a couple times so that when we kill it we don't have so much mess. Our owner also wanted us to cut it so it wouldn't go to seed. We are thinking of trying the Bio-Logic "Winter Grasses Plus" where the winter wheat was last year. It is 63% Forage Max/wheat, 26% Fridge/ Triticale, 2% Mino early radish, 2% Dwarf Essex brassicas, 1% Berseem clover. Has anyone tried this mix in zone 4 which is what we are here in central Wis. or have any other ideas for that strip. I know rye would be an option but I'm not sure the deer like it as well. Our owner thinks they like wheat better! Any thoughts.
In our other plots We used Bio-Logic "Hot Spot", "Outfitters Blend"' and added some of their "Clover Plus" and "Radish" to those Mixes. They all did very well and the deer were in them all the time. We are going to just do clover in one of those small plots because the clover came thru the winter really well.
For those of you in Central Wis. sand country you know how hard it is to grow anything if we don't have a lot of rain. Last year was near perfect and just about anything would grow. This is only our 3rd year doing this and the 1st year was dry and we didn't do well. Don't have a lot of experience so any help would be appreciated. We seed by hand but do have access to small tractor, cultipacker and 4 wheeler with chainlink fence drag.
Sorry this is so long but wanted to let you know what we have and what we have done to this point. We fertilize and lime as well. Thanking you in advance for your replys
Last year we divided the 20 x 330 yd. section into 2- 10 x 330 yd. sections. One we planted with Deer Creek Seeds "Autumn Buffet" ( brassicas, rape, pt turnips, & 30% red & white clovers) we added some dakion radish to that mix. It turned out very good and the deer had it down to the ground by late bow season. A lot of the clover came up this spring which was great. We are planning on either killing what clover remains and planting the same thing or trying to overseed and cultipack with same mix. The other 10 yd. x 330yd. strip we planted in winter wheat. They feed on it all fall and it came up in spring. We have cut the wheat and clover a couple times so that when we kill it we don't have so much mess. Our owner also wanted us to cut it so it wouldn't go to seed. We are thinking of trying the Bio-Logic "Winter Grasses Plus" where the winter wheat was last year. It is 63% Forage Max/wheat, 26% Fridge/ Triticale, 2% Mino early radish, 2% Dwarf Essex brassicas, 1% Berseem clover. Has anyone tried this mix in zone 4 which is what we are here in central Wis. or have any other ideas for that strip. I know rye would be an option but I'm not sure the deer like it as well. Our owner thinks they like wheat better! Any thoughts.
In our other plots We used Bio-Logic "Hot Spot", "Outfitters Blend"' and added some of their "Clover Plus" and "Radish" to those Mixes. They all did very well and the deer were in them all the time. We are going to just do clover in one of those small plots because the clover came thru the winter really well.
For those of you in Central Wis. sand country you know how hard it is to grow anything if we don't have a lot of rain. Last year was near perfect and just about anything would grow. This is only our 3rd year doing this and the 1st year was dry and we didn't do well. Don't have a lot of experience so any help would be appreciated. We seed by hand but do have access to small tractor, cultipacker and 4 wheeler with chainlink fence drag.
Sorry this is so long but wanted to let you know what we have and what we have done to this point. We fertilize and lime as well. Thanking you in advance for your replys