Now for another view...
In total, no! I would contend that more folks new to food plotting had significantly accelerated success because of the QDMA forums. With their demise, what will happen? There was no single source as large and respected as QDMA for information on deer management and food plotting. More Google searches hit QDMA than anywhere else for this subject matter. Users will end up distributed over a variety of forums and it will take years at a minimum for any one forum to emerge as dominant. Since eyes will still be vectored to QDMA and the message will now be managed to be more sponsor friendly and less critical. Fewer new folks to food plotting will find sites like this than the QDMA forum. They will have a longer journey to success. So, the end result will be fewer acres of successful food plots. :eek:
On the other hand... the knowledge that was congregated on that site may end up spreading to several new sites that may (for one reason or another) spread information and ideas to folks who would otherwise have never landed on the Q forums. I have made no bones about my issues with QDMA from the get-go, so I shed not a single tear about their hastening of their own demise, but the sharing of valuable insight by individuals who are not beholden to anyone will continue and grow.Now for another view...
In total, no! I would contend that more folks new to food plotting had significantly accelerated success because of the QDMA forums. With their demise, what will happen? There was no single source as large and respected as QDMA for information on deer management and food plotting. More Google searches hit QDMA than anywhere else for this subject matter. Users will end up distributed over a variety of forums and it will take years at a minimum for any one forum to emerge as dominant. Since eyes will still be vectored to QDMA and the message will now be managed to be more sponsor friendly and less critical. Fewer new folks to food plotting will find sites like this than the QDMA forum. They will have a longer journey to success. So, the end result will be fewer acres of successful food plots. :eek:
On the other hand... the knowledge that was congregated on that site may end up spreading to several new sites that may (for one reason or another) spread information and ideas to folks who would otherwise have never landed on the Q forums. I have made no bones about my issues with QDMA from the get-go, so I shed not a single tear about their hastening of their own demise, but the sharing of valuable insight by individuals who are not beholden to anyone will continue and grow.
This seems like as good a place as any to plant this..I've tried to raise brassicas the last fours years with some(not great) success. At first I got caught up in the craze of them but now it's personal, I just want to try and get them to grow. I could never understand why people plant them so late in the year. I've read and understand the green top to tuber production idea and how late you want to carry them into the winter thing, or at least I think I do. I've been planting them earlier every year and that seems to be at least part of the puzzle for me. This year I planted on 7\16 over the top of BW and oats. As 7\23 my neighbor tells me that they are around 5" tall and germination appears to be excellent. So, to say I am excited is an under statement. I may drive up after work one night just to look at them. It's been a struggle for me to keep something green and available going into the cool fall weather and I am hopeful I might be getting closer to that goal. I don't hunt over the plots btw. Anyway, just though I would add something here.
Don't lose sleep over it. Many times my plots are not "pretty" but the deer still pound the heck out of them. Soil tests show that we not only need a lot of lime, we also need a bunch of K. A bag or bags of 0-0-60 is inexpensive and well worth with.Wisconsin. Yes, Juneau county. Aside from the sandy soil a good portion of my land is low and wet for most of the year, especially if we have regular rain. It's also very acidic and I've been working on amending that. Sunlight is part of the problem as well. I've been cutting back the maples and some of the pine to remedy that. I've also got some large oak that shade my plots. Can't bring myself to take those down. I suspect wilt will make that decision for me soon enough. I'm little more committed to them this year with the amendments I added last fall, this spring and again when I planted in July. Very interested to see what the results will be. I also added a little rye in with them when I planted, since I had about 10lbs left over from last year and wanted to use it up.
I just don't have the type of property to have the optimal food plots some do. I've managed to carve out a few plots on high ground in the woods and work with that. I'll probably never have the kind of plots I'd like to but I do enjoy the time I spend working on them and the satisfaction of seeing deer consume what's available.
We work with what we have I guess.
I'd consider it but with such a small property there isn't much to look at. We would probably end up just drinking an excessive amount of adult beverages and feasting on Chicago style Italian venison sandwiches :cool:.All great posts from the Juneau guys! Get the brassicas in early and if you can't get it in any sooner, the rye can by overseeded as late as mid Sept and still put on some growth in most years. We were in Clearfield and had a few years when we put rye down the weekend before the bow opener and had a green field 2 weeks later. Takes off in the spring with no issues. When are you guys going to do some property tours? Got to be at least 10 guys in the general Juneau/Adams Co area who could host and or attend a tour.
We would probably end up just drinking an excessive amount of adult beverages and feasting on Chicago style Italian venison sandwiches :cool:.