Mattyq2402
5 year old buck +
I'll be planting 3.5 acres of corn this spring for the first time on my farm. It's family farm that's never been managed with big deer in the surrounding area, SE Ohio. I'm adding an acre of green cover, vitalize, and droptines summer blends surrounding the corn and an acre of vitalize on the back end of the property in a kill plot. Reason behind the food is no one locally appears to plant and Def not corn within miles. With some of the big deer on cam and killed very local I'm looking to pull in deer to the property. Ill be doing a few cuts to open the canopy to sculpt some bedding and add to current bed. I also have app 6 acres of open hay field that butts to the new food plots I'm thinking putting native grass into next year.
I've never planted corn, ill be using buddies corn planter and he does plant corn. To get ahead of the costs what's the reccomended steps and soil prep for a hay field? I'm waiting on soil test results currently. Do I need to spray gly multiple times or just once leading up to planting. I have 2.5 acre rr ready corn from lapratt and one acre of Higgins corn which is not rr. Is there liquid nitrogen I should be adding or should I be using pellet? When should I prep ground prior to the plant date, do i work the nitrogen and lime in prior to the plant after first spray?
As far as plot shape this is what I've come up with, I have a couple ideas I'm working on but this will be the basic idea. Any help is appreciated! Light orange yellow is corn, greens will be the summer soil builders, orange is projected switch, blue will be an upland bird mix. Blues icons are new crabs.
Also north is left, west is bottom of pic. Stand sites are work in progress. The back plot covers me for a good chunk of the winds.

I've never planted corn, ill be using buddies corn planter and he does plant corn. To get ahead of the costs what's the reccomended steps and soil prep for a hay field? I'm waiting on soil test results currently. Do I need to spray gly multiple times or just once leading up to planting. I have 2.5 acre rr ready corn from lapratt and one acre of Higgins corn which is not rr. Is there liquid nitrogen I should be adding or should I be using pellet? When should I prep ground prior to the plant date, do i work the nitrogen and lime in prior to the plant after first spray?
As far as plot shape this is what I've come up with, I have a couple ideas I'm working on but this will be the basic idea. Any help is appreciated! Light orange yellow is corn, greens will be the summer soil builders, orange is projected switch, blue will be an upland bird mix. Blues icons are new crabs.
Also north is left, west is bottom of pic. Stand sites are work in progress. The back plot covers me for a good chunk of the winds.
