As I’m sure many of you have experienced, elgato’s farm thread really inspired me to get serious about my food plotting. So first off, thanks so much Rusty for putting that together. I know it takes a lot of effort to keep that thread up, especially as long as it’s been going. I’ve really enjoyed the incredible detail and laid back attitude you’ve shown through the whole thing. The pics are pretty nice too J. It’s definitely my favorite thread on this site.
I don’t contribute a lot on here, but thought I would give a little back and show what my dad, brother and I are doing on our land.
To give you some background on me, I grew up hunting southeast Texas where I’m from. About the time I was old enough to hunt on my own and really got into it for myself (12-13), my grandparents bought a little ranch in south Texas. Then late in high school we got on a deer lease in the hill country. I’ve lived in central Texas since I graduated high school, couple that with other places to hunt and I never hunted here in east Texas until this past year.
When I was in high school, I started planting plots on our place in south Texas, but as Rusty has said, it all depends on water down there. So I never had much success, but I learned a lot in the process.
We sold the south Texas place last year and the lease has been gone for some time. Last fall, my wife and I moved back to my hometown, so I had my first real deer season on our land here. I’ve indoctrinated my dad into being serious about our management plan and planting food plots (thanks to a serious slide show based on Rusty’s thread and a couple of good beers)!
A little on our land here. It’s been in our family for close to 40 years now. I’m incredibly blessed to have this land to use, as I know so many don’t have access to this type of property. Its 320 acres and almost completely timbered with probably 75/25 split of hardwoods to pine. It was originally 360 acres and we've always called it "The 360". We have a 3 acre field and another ½ acre field that are clear cut. Other than that we have roads and a couple of other small clearings that are clear of underbrush but have mature trees. We also are completely surrounded by small neighbors; I think 23 or 26 property owners with average property size of 5-10 acres. Managing is a challenge in this situation and trespassers are not uncommon.
My dad bought a 32 horse john deere last fall and we got a 5 ft tiller with it. So that and a lot of sweat are what we're working with. My grandpa always had good tractors, but never a tiller. I always used a disc. The tiller is awesome. Get one if you can.
Sorry for the loooong intro...
I don’t contribute a lot on here, but thought I would give a little back and show what my dad, brother and I are doing on our land.
To give you some background on me, I grew up hunting southeast Texas where I’m from. About the time I was old enough to hunt on my own and really got into it for myself (12-13), my grandparents bought a little ranch in south Texas. Then late in high school we got on a deer lease in the hill country. I’ve lived in central Texas since I graduated high school, couple that with other places to hunt and I never hunted here in east Texas until this past year.
When I was in high school, I started planting plots on our place in south Texas, but as Rusty has said, it all depends on water down there. So I never had much success, but I learned a lot in the process.
We sold the south Texas place last year and the lease has been gone for some time. Last fall, my wife and I moved back to my hometown, so I had my first real deer season on our land here. I’ve indoctrinated my dad into being serious about our management plan and planting food plots (thanks to a serious slide show based on Rusty’s thread and a couple of good beers)!
A little on our land here. It’s been in our family for close to 40 years now. I’m incredibly blessed to have this land to use, as I know so many don’t have access to this type of property. Its 320 acres and almost completely timbered with probably 75/25 split of hardwoods to pine. It was originally 360 acres and we've always called it "The 360". We have a 3 acre field and another ½ acre field that are clear cut. Other than that we have roads and a couple of other small clearings that are clear of underbrush but have mature trees. We also are completely surrounded by small neighbors; I think 23 or 26 property owners with average property size of 5-10 acres. Managing is a challenge in this situation and trespassers are not uncommon.
My dad bought a 32 horse john deere last fall and we got a 5 ft tiller with it. So that and a lot of sweat are what we're working with. My grandpa always had good tractors, but never a tiller. I always used a disc. The tiller is awesome. Get one if you can.
Sorry for the loooong intro...
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