2022 Food Plot Thread

[lovemylegacy]

Tonight I broadcasted 50lb of cowpeas into the standing clover/vetch/rye mix and rolled it down. Rain forecast for tonight and tomorrow.






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By far the best way to plant, making your on fertilizer. Far better for the environment.

[HTXTundra]

Looks like y’all got some nice places, keep up the good work!

[Drycreek3189]

i hope youre wrong cuz im planting this weekend

Sorry Corey, but you are the beneficiary of my curse……

[TRH]

This is a very interesting thread. Currently in the market for my own piece of heaven and looking at ideas for when I finally land it.

Been curious what kind of equipment I would need to get started.

[CWendling]

Sorry Corey, but you are the beneficiary of my curse……

Cursed indeed ha. My tractor started spewing diesel from the engine compartment about halfway through disking. So had to take it to the shop. Went ahead and spread some seed with my tailgate feeder and drug a weighted pallet over the areas i had disked so we'll how that works out. Since I wont be able to get back for 3 weeks, looks like thats gonna be the extent of my spring food plots. Didnt even get to use my nice new cultipacker

[EastTexun]

Cursed indeed ha. My tractor started spewing diesel from the engine compartment about halfway through disking. So had to take it to the shop. Went ahead and spread some seed with my tailgate feeder and drug a weighted pallet over the areas i had disked so we'll how that works out. Since I wont be able to get back for 3 weeks, looks like thats gonna be the extent of my spring food plots. Didnt even get to use my nice new cultipacker

I think I have an eternal curse. Whatever is not broken when I get to the ranch ends up broken if I need to use it. I got 4 acres planted, but when filling the sprayer to spray gly on the areas that I just planted I realized my Y fitting at the bottom had basically turned into a clamshell that was destined to remain open.

[Gumbo Man]

My Cow Peas are doing well after 5 weeks with 2 substantial rains. This stand is narrow but goes through the woods about 1/4 mile and I figured about 3 acres. They haven’t started hitting it yet. They walk through it to get to the protein feeders. Hogs destroyed it after I dished and planted but I’m pleased with the results.

[Drycreek3189]

Cursed indeed ha. My tractor started spewing diesel from the engine compartment about halfway through disking. So had to take it to the shop. Went ahead and spread some seed with my tailgate feeder and drug a weighted pallet over the areas i had disked so we'll how that works out. Since I wont be able to get back for 3 weeks, looks like thats gonna be the extent of my spring food plots. Didnt even get to use my nice new cultipacker

When it rains, it pours !

My Cow Peas are doing well after 5 weeks with 2 substantial rains. This stand is narrow but goes through the woods about 1/4 mile and I figured about 3 acres. They haven’t started hitting it yet. They walk through it to get to the protein feeders. Hogs destroyed it after I dished and planted but I’m pleased with the results.

I love iron clay peas but I stopped planting them because the peas I get from East Texas seed have pigweed seeds in them. The last two times I planted them I had a bumper crop of redroot pigweed.

[TRH]

My Cow Peas are doing well after 5 weeks with 2 substantial rains. This stand is narrow but goes through the woods about 1/4 mile and I figured about 3 acres. They haven’t started hitting it yet. They walk through it to get to the protein feeders. Hogs destroyed it after I dished and planted but I’m pleased with the results.

Is it worth trying to keep hogs out of the food plots? Was debating the value proposition of attempting this. I am still in the process of purchasing my land, but am trying to come up with a plan so I can hit the ground running.

[Gumbo Man]

Is it worth trying to keep hogs out of the food plots? Was debating the value proposition of attempting this. I am still in the process of purchasing my land, but am trying to come up with a plan so I can hit the ground running.

If you put enough pressure on hogs they will hit the road. But you’ve really got to ride em for a while with the lead.

[EastTexun]

Is it worth trying to keep hogs out of the food plots? Was debating the value proposition of attempting this. I am still in the process of purchasing my land, but am trying to come up with a plan so I can hit the ground running.

All of my feeders are fenced off other than 1, and it has been like this for several years now. Are the feeder pens a PITA sometimes? Yes. But, I don't have nearly the hog issues that my friends do, or even neighbors for that matter. When they do show up, I hunt them as hard as possible and they disappear for a while.

[MossyRockRanch]

Not been this dry at my place since 2013 and worst looking plots by far. If no rain in next week will go back and replant two of them but long term forecast seems against us this year.

[MossyRockRanch]

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[Drycreek3189]

If you put enough pressure on hogs they will hit the road. But you’ve really got to ride em for a while with the lead.

True statement Terry ! My problem on my lease is that none of the other guys will pen their feeders. So on the way to or from one of the other guy’s feeder, they stop and dine on whatever is growing in my plot !

[TRH]

Them's shootin' hours.