Looking for some advice on letting a 10 acre field grow up and planting some food plots. The field I'm working with hasn't been planted in about 7-8 years. So as you can guess it's getting pretty woolly with weeds, briars, and small trees. For the last couple years we've been bush hogging paths and made a couple clearings for food plots.
In an ideal world I'd like to let this grow into a wooded patch of property for deer hunting. Unfortunately I don't have any idea how to facilitate this project and I doubt there is a good way of doing this. Right now there are a lot of small trees in the 8-10ft height range and the weeds are 4-5ft tall.
Right now the deer are pretty much staying in the undergrowth instead of following the bush hogged trails. I'm thinking that I'd like to plant both seasonal and perennial plots. I also have a 15 acre field next to this that will be planted in either corn or beans yearly so I'll be competing with that food source yearly. Currently I hunt the tree lines on the property which is pretty challenging since the deer seem to always cross the fields in different locations. I'm hoping the food plots will give the deer a location travel to. What would be some good plants for the plots?
Thx much!
In an ideal world I'd like to let this grow into a wooded patch of property for deer hunting. Unfortunately I don't have any idea how to facilitate this project and I doubt there is a good way of doing this. Right now there are a lot of small trees in the 8-10ft height range and the weeds are 4-5ft tall.
Right now the deer are pretty much staying in the undergrowth instead of following the bush hogged trails. I'm thinking that I'd like to plant both seasonal and perennial plots. I also have a 15 acre field next to this that will be planted in either corn or beans yearly so I'll be competing with that food source yearly. Currently I hunt the tree lines on the property which is pretty challenging since the deer seem to always cross the fields in different locations. I'm hoping the food plots will give the deer a location travel to. What would be some good plants for the plots?
Thx much!