Deer Food Plot Planting Tips To Get A Big Buck In Bow Range - The Management Advantage #74
Tips, Tricks
Food plot planting times ensure success of the plots for deer, but there's another tip you can use when planting your plot to help get that big buck in range. In central Illinois, we utilize two distinct planting times for fall food plots. The difference is in what is being planted. For a pure brassica stand like what we helped Full Draw Hunts plant, we'll focus on planting around the first half of August if the moisture is there. This will give the plants ample opportunity to grow before the end of the growing season and maximize the amount of forage they provide. In our food plots that are planted in mixes such as Pennington Feeding Frenzy that include cereal grains and legumes, we'll hold off toward the end of the month. When planting mixes like these, you don't want the grains to grow too tall. They become less desirable and tough the taller they get. Planting them closer to the end of the growing season will ensure they don't have enough time to grow too much. One tip in our fall food plot program that has provided great success is enhancing areas that are within bow range of our stands by broadcasting chicory after planting the plot with The Firminator. Chicory is one of our favorite forages to plant in our food plots simply because the deer seek it out and devour it. By planting it only in locations that are within range, we can push the odds in favor that any deer that enters the plot will eventually come to the small area of chicory and provide a shooting opportunity. If you have a favorite species of plant that deer seem to eat more than anything else, give this planting tip a try this fall! Watch this and more wildlife management videos at http://www.themanagementadvantage.com... Be sure to sign up for our weekly updates that will send our newest wildlife management videos and articles straight to your inbox!
Comments
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Great video. Can't wait to see how this plot works out for you guys!
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say that I don't have deer in my immediate area and I want to draw them in from far away, is there any particular food or some thing with big aroma that I should use and how long it will take in your opinion to draw them in and will they come or it's a waist of time and money ?
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I was wounded if you guys could help me out. I've been trying to get Pennington foodplot seed for about four months now and all the Pennington dealers around me can't get it or won't order it and I've tried contacting Pennington but I've had no luck what so ever hoping you guys can help me out thanks!
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Awesome video!! Everyone loves the intro music,what is it? Keep videos coming
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Another GREAT vid! I was wondering when i should plant my feeding frenzy and elite plots here in south ga? Thanks matt
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Getting excited for next month!
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Great video, I loved the intro music
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Awesome video! I started planting with Pennington seed this year in all my plots and already im beyond pleased with the results! Got all my seed in the ground second week of August here in North Carolina. The plots are booming!
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I've noticed the same thing about chicory. They seem to favor it but not in large quantities. We put in feeding frenzy with the elite this year but I have a bottle of evovlved plot mixer chicory I'm using under my stand about 20 yards out. Great video guys. Casey if you're ever that bored and wanna do some invasive species managing you're welcome to come bowfishing with us in north Alabama.
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why do you guys plant with the fel lifted?
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Am like you. Am getting antsy, and wanting to geter done. Can't wait till deer season. If that's your wife she sure is a beautiful lady. Thanks for the video.
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I've killed one Buck in my lifetime but I love Doe meat I usually harvest three a year.
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Great video guys keep making them
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Once again...AWESOME video! Love the intro music and b roll! Keep it coming guys!
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