Obie
A good 3 year old buck
Good evening everyone, im in need of some valued opinions on next year's late season food sources. I have a 20 acre farm surrounded by 80 acres of ag on 3 sides. My hunting depends heavily on that food source because small pockets of cover in big ag areas are all usually competing on who has the best late season food sources. The area is heavily pressured but some have better spots than mine when it comes to topology.
I'm planning on planting everything in yellow in rr corn. A good friend of mine has a few hundred acres he Farms and is willing to plant it for me with fertilizer and spray gly and atrizine. The crops will be left standing all year. The fields have been in corn/soy rotation for years with good yields.
The deep dip in the right hand sign will be late planted rr beans with the green line up top. The left hand side is first year switch with pockets of fallow field. The rectangle in between the corn and switch is a premium ladino white and red clover plot in its 2nd winter. I have about an acre of greens on the farm and keeps 5 to 6 does and small bucks happy until December. I was lucky enough to have my multiple encounters with 5 different mature bucks in the plot behind the barn, until the corn came down around us.




This is this year's photos of this farm, there is a creek south west that you can see the tree line in the last photo above.
My questions are whether I should I leave small pockets in the corn to keep going into early succession for bedding spots to have some secluded spots for bucks to feel comfortable, or put clover/alfalfa/chickory plots in the corn. Also wondering if I should keep the clover or put that portion in corn also. And making clover trails from bedding areas. I've got some tsi to do on the western tree line and more trees to plant everywhere. The I'm torn between making the bigger field half corn and half trees planted in tree tops of the locust and cherry we are are cutting out.
They bed very close to the house when the corn is on. Human activity every day that stays between the barn and the house, and they don't seem to mind. The bucks bed on the back side of the property, ill post a picture zoomed out so you can get an idea of the habit.
I'm planning on planting everything in yellow in rr corn. A good friend of mine has a few hundred acres he Farms and is willing to plant it for me with fertilizer and spray gly and atrizine. The crops will be left standing all year. The fields have been in corn/soy rotation for years with good yields.

The deep dip in the right hand sign will be late planted rr beans with the green line up top. The left hand side is first year switch with pockets of fallow field. The rectangle in between the corn and switch is a premium ladino white and red clover plot in its 2nd winter. I have about an acre of greens on the farm and keeps 5 to 6 does and small bucks happy until December. I was lucky enough to have my multiple encounters with 5 different mature bucks in the plot behind the barn, until the corn came down around us.





This is this year's photos of this farm, there is a creek south west that you can see the tree line in the last photo above.
My questions are whether I should I leave small pockets in the corn to keep going into early succession for bedding spots to have some secluded spots for bucks to feel comfortable, or put clover/alfalfa/chickory plots in the corn. Also wondering if I should keep the clover or put that portion in corn also. And making clover trails from bedding areas. I've got some tsi to do on the western tree line and more trees to plant everywhere. The I'm torn between making the bigger field half corn and half trees planted in tree tops of the locust and cherry we are are cutting out.
They bed very close to the house when the corn is on. Human activity every day that stays between the barn and the house, and they don't seem to mind. The bucks bed on the back side of the property, ill post a picture zoomed out so you can get an idea of the habit.