[Hunting Man]

Soil ph should be in the 7.6-8.0 range then you can cut the lime back. It takes lime several seasons to fully intigrate into the soil and only works by direct contact with soil so the lime should be worked into the top 3-4 inches of the soil with the disks. Clovers don't need nitrogen so a 0-10-10 product would be fairly inexpensive but most other crops will need some amount of nitrogen to maximize growth. I will be planting plots with brassicas and clover/chickory blend.

 

[Hunting Man]

Well went to Cabela's and got the seed for the PA food plots. The small dryer plot will get Tecomate Alfa-feast its a mix of alfalfa and chickory. The bigger plot will get a mix of Tecomate Monster mix and Ultra forage these are basically chickory, clovers, turnips, and rape. Hopefully, this will give the deer differing maturing feeds. On vacation the last week of June so planting will take place. They've had a lot of spring rain and the lower food plot was still wet two weeks ago. Hope to get some rain post planting!

 

[Hunting Man]

ronn, my buddy in PA only saw that buck once on his property and then nothing. We didn't hear of him being shot either, just vanished prior to bow season. I will take the camera with me to show the plot progress. I have a lot of neglected work to do. I hope most of the plots have been killed with the round up. Then just brush hog it low, disk, drag, fertlize and plant. Hopefully weather allows for two days work then rain. I wish I could do a control burn but that's not an option.

 

[Hunting Man]

Corn is around 8% protein and mostly carbohydrates so while its a good late season/winter food draw its not a good protein food for growing giant racks. Corn matures too late in the season to provide much for growing a bucks rack. Minimum protein intake, during the antler growing period, needs to be 16% and above to generate really trophy racks. Corn does provive a good thermo break in hard winter, if left standing. Other food plot plants can generate up to 38% protein coupled with excellent genetics makes a good combination to produce big guys to pursue.