3 Ways To Start A New Food Plot

Here are 3 highly proven ways to start a food plot, from spending lots of dollars, to very little at all! However, no matter which way you choose these 3 methods to begin your plot, are sure-fire ways to find success.

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[RonFleener]

I'm a rookie when it comes to food plots and I appreciate all your content. Thank you.

[homesteadhero]

Your channel is the only reason I have food plots now. We didn't have heavy equipment. A tractor but no discer, tiller, or side by side sprayer.. The spraying and spreading method has worked wonderfully. I just walk the plots with a hand sprayer. I appreciate all the educational content. Thank you.

[jamespascuita]

This man is a wealth of knowledge. Can't tell you how much I have learned and increased my success on public land hunts. Finally getting my own land up in Western NY and I'm following his teachings to the letter. And every single thing I've learned will be passed down to my son and my little grandson when he's old enough to understand.

[bowman]

1, 2 and 3... Rain lol
Still a drought in WNY !
Hopefully late August will be all better 🤞
Thank you Jeff.. great info 🏹🦌

[marillahills]

Another great video thanks again! Before I found your channel few years back not knowing I used to just push mow an old hay feild which took over found out later wasted my time. Then I found your channel and started spraying broadcasting seed worked very well but then we started putting cows back there. Now this year in this little 10 acres chunk half cedar swamp half maple/oak mix I leaf blowed an acre of hardwoods section along the swamp then garden raked the soil deffiantley took sometime had the kids help me haha. Added your mock scrape which I always do public or private huge success with it. Also was amazed on all the acorns that were in between the leaf layers didn't get to the dirt . I broadcasted alot of clover and bought every small seed I could find and local feed store so far clovers is doing good haven't been back in a week to see anything else is coming up. Plan was to keep broadcasting clover get it ready for the kids for the youth hunt in September. Also was thinking now being how the dirt is exposed the acorns dropping might actually sprout to the ground idk if you think that's possible or not? Also located in northern Michigan Manistee county.

[creekriseoutdoors]

Appreciate your content and advice Jeff. Just cleared 5 acres of pine, stumped, burned, limed and planted. Buckwheat starting to come up and it looks great. I’m excited for the fall plot ‘no till’ possibilities. Thanks for sharing your knowledge bud.

[kurtpearson]

I’m working on four small plots.
1: crimped and mowed
2: tilled and sprayed
3: brush hogged and sprayed
This video is appreciated 👍

[RS-msbz]

Jeff, as I said a few days ago, the severe drought destroyed my buckwheat plantings, so I’m going to spray glyphosate to get the plots prepped for fall plantings early August. I can only hope and pray that rain will come later this summer and fall. My plots are hard to get to with machinery other than an atv, so they were all cleared by hand. So much time and energy spent to just see it burn away from no rain. It’s frustrating but I’ll keep plugging away. I watched Don Mealey struggle with drought all last fall, but he never gave up and finally ended up having beautiful plots. If he can do it at his advanced age, then so can I. Hoping all goes well for everyone this fall!

[toddhuff]

Jeff !! You knocked this one out of the park brother ! One of the best, most informative food plot video I’ve ever watched. I’m in the mountains of Va without any crop field only hay. Grass fed beef is the big thing around here now. All the old dairy farms are long gone along with all the corn fields.
So food plots are very attractive come fall/winter.
My properties boarders a15, 000 acre Boy Scouts reservation wilderness ! 😊
Thanks for all your help through all your many videos sir. You have made me look at a lot of things in ways I hadn’t before.
And I’m pushin 50 yr old lol.

[jowhi]

This is one of the best videos I've seen Jeff! Thanks
Joe

[garrettrobinson]

I love this, but it is very hard to follow. I feel like there are a thousand different combinations and if I don’t get it right it’s going to be a failed plot. Are your web classes just like this or do they break down what to do, when, and where to plant certain types of plots? If so I’d be willing to buy one, but after this I honestly feel more confused b/c there was no chronological order to it. you have this abundance of knowledge that I want to learn from, but it’s hard to organize my thoughts from this video. Maybe something in chronological order, like this time of year do this, then this time of year do this, all the way through the fall and winter until you start again. Thank you so much for all you do, this stuff is awesome, maybe it’s just my adult ADHD going nuts, but it’s just hard for me to make sense of it. Thank you!

[dusty]

Just placed an order for my fall greens blend on your website.. for all the info you give us, it’s the least I can do to give back. I’m Sure it will be great.

[marknelson]

Great advice in this video. It really gives those of us "absentee" landowners real hope for food plots and our lack of "big" equipment. Looking forward to broadcasting seed into the buckwheat and doing our final spraying of the year in mid-August. Thank you for providing PRACTICAL advice on improving our property and the hunt.

[fredk]

Brassica food plots going in tomorrow due to being gone for upcoming 4 weeks for work, tried the buckwheat this spring, they ate every piece of it, two 1/2 acre plots, your videos and advice is awesome to help me transform my property

[robertboston]

Get yourself (and Dylan) a Thermacell MR450 brother. Thanks for this video - I've used each of those methods since 2016, my first food plot - your info has made them all so much better. Thanks for all you do.

[underdogoutdoors]

I used to go nuts with food plots on my southern tier NY property, now just brush hog & lime right over the weeds, not planting anything (out of lazyness), still brings in deer.

[mikeclement]

Just brush hogged 2 acres to a height of 8 inches to keep a little height for seed to soil contact and get a decent mash over with a packer. Going to glyphosate and spread a blend of clover, chickory, brassicas, and then soy. Not everything blended together. Clover and chickory with the brassicas in a fairly small plot. Soy is going in alone because it is roundup ready and I plan on weed controlling it with glyphosate.

I hope this works. I hit everything with lime to get good my pH. If I screw up, I'll try again next year and winter rye it in September as a last ditch.

[wolfpack]

Just started a new plot this year after a few months of cutting trees. I wasn't thinking and sprayed 24D and Gly on it to kill everything. Had to plant clover this year instead of brassicas but probably not a bad thing to get some nitrogen in there plus controlling weeds in clover is easy.

[michaelswitzer]

Good advice. I was planning on starting to clear some brush out a couple weeks ago, but the 2 4wd tractors we have won't work (one is too small & can't get a loader for the other), and if someone does have a 4wd tractor with loader the right size in stock they are way overpriced. Yes, I need 4wd or tracks, if it rains it is swampy. The local contractors I have used in the past have enough work to keep them busy until winter.

[bottoms]

Hi Jeff. I'm a 58 year old widow of 4 years, that loves hunting (In 36 years I've killed 54 deer, and all but 6 have been bucks). From the time I started hunting, when I would shoot smaller bucks, until we decided to let the smaller bucks walk and concentrate on trying to harvest bigger bucks. And I've been very blessed to accomplish that. I've continued to plant food plots, by myself, after my husband of 30 years passed away. I would like to share a few photos of my food plots from the last couple of years with you and this group. Could you tell me where I can post my pics? I hunt in SW Virginia and I do not plant corn or soybeans, but I've sowed a 4 clover blend, brassicas, winter peas, winter wheat, cereal rye etc. I've learned a lot from your videos this year. I normally sow my plots around labor day, if there is rain forecasted, because if it isn't going to rain I hold off, because the turkeys will get in my plots and have a feast on my seed LOL
I haven't been spraying my plots, but I think they've turned out pretty well, but I plan to follow your instructions on weed control. One of the areas that I plant is what used to be pasture land, but I have a neighbor that I let mow it for hay a couple of times a year, to keep the field clean, and have tender green grasses for the deer, during the summer months. I don't plant the whole field in a food plot, just a small portion of it.
Again, is there a way I can share pics of my food plots with you and the group?
Love your advice, your knowledge and your videos.
Have a great day 🦌🦌🦌