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How long would 5000sq ft of corn last?
- Thread starter jpe40
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that's about 1/10 an acre if my math is right. Times 200 bushels/acre, you have 20 bushels of corn. Between the deer, turkeys, coons and blue jays, I'd say it lasts 2 weeks or less if there is no other corn nearby. If you are in an ag area where deer have a ton of food options, it might last longer.
davidhelmly
5 year old buck +
It depends on your deer density, here in West Georgia it wouldn’t last 1 weekend.
gurgalunas
A good 3 year old buck
It depends on your coon density. Around me, the ears wouldn't make it to maturity.
Bill
Administrator
It also depends on the personality and habits of your local deer. Believe it or not deer in my neighborhood won't eat standing corn. Mow it or knock it down so the ears are on the ground and they live in it.
The first time I planted corn and left it stand I waited til spring to mow it so I could plant beans. It was a mess I had volunteer corn everywhere.
The first time I planted corn and left it stand I waited til spring to mow it so I could plant beans. It was a mess I had volunteer corn everywhere.
). Otherwise it would have stood there until spring mostly untouched.bigboreblr
5 year old buck +
Had a really nce opportunity to see a mom deer teach a younging how to knock down corn with their front foot.
ow many years have you been hunting that spot? Corn is treated differently by different farmers. Some got dryers and are interested in silage of hte stalks. Some wait for it to be bone dry. Some own dryers and haul it in when they can.
When you think the corn might be gone historically. What are your hunting dates, that varies around the US. I am a muzzleloader hunter more than not, I pick up that 2 10 split with a roundball. So I focus my plots when nobody else has anything. It twigs, fluke grass, or my stuff.
Neighboring corn mean the deer know how to knock it down. Racoons can be a huge problem as well as bears. Electric fences mean about nothing to racoons, bears it can repell, ut seen them bust fences if the juice is worth the squeeze.
Wheat might be a good choice as an option. I am always fond of daikon raddish because of the late season attrcaction and the early season low interest. Whens your first good few frosts, certain brassicas get sweet at that time.
Good old grain, clover, brassica blends in a small plot like that can attract real shy deer, like mature ones with big horns or old wise does.
Corn takes alot of fertilizer like 140lbs of nitrogen per acre. Thats usually a maintenance dose assuming you got good numbers now. 304lbs of urea per acre.
You planting this, or sectioning out a corner. Can ask farmer to leave few rows if your friendly with him.
ow many years have you been hunting that spot? Corn is treated differently by different farmers. Some got dryers and are interested in silage of hte stalks. Some wait for it to be bone dry. Some own dryers and haul it in when they can.
When you think the corn might be gone historically. What are your hunting dates, that varies around the US. I am a muzzleloader hunter more than not, I pick up that 2 10 split with a roundball. So I focus my plots when nobody else has anything. It twigs, fluke grass, or my stuff.
Neighboring corn mean the deer know how to knock it down. Racoons can be a huge problem as well as bears. Electric fences mean about nothing to racoons, bears it can repell, ut seen them bust fences if the juice is worth the squeeze.
Wheat might be a good choice as an option. I am always fond of daikon raddish because of the late season attrcaction and the early season low interest. Whens your first good few frosts, certain brassicas get sweet at that time.
Good old grain, clover, brassica blends in a small plot like that can attract real shy deer, like mature ones with big horns or old wise does.
Corn takes alot of fertilizer like 140lbs of nitrogen per acre. Thats usually a maintenance dose assuming you got good numbers now. 304lbs of urea per acre.
You planting this, or sectioning out a corner. Can ask farmer to leave few rows if your friendly with him.
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