Food plots, the 3 week update....

[RobJ]

A few pictures for those who loke to look.

It's been 3 weeks. I think the only rain we got was a little from Ike. I had 5 inches in my gauge and I last dumped the gauge 9/7.

In this first batch you can clearly see the area where I over the broadcasted seed with the disk about 4 inches deep. The part on the right was drug with my ATV harrow.

 

[RobJ]

Here is the area with some trees. Mostly whole oats here, 1 bag of wheat mixed in (3 bags of oats). This was just drug with the harrows. Looks nice except for the dead cow just out of the picture!!!! grrr.

BTW the cows and horses have been nibbling on some of this. They are avoiding the around the dead cow. Next trip I'm going to drag that somewhere else.

Also no fertilizer on these.

Oh the the before link is here... http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/128633-food-plots-finished-up-weekend.html

 

[RobJ]

The peas I planted are doing very well. Should be at $38 a bag. Interesting to see what they do in the end.

Rob

 

[3RRL]

Looking good Rob!

 

[wushaw]

38 bucks a bag....and I was whining about 11.00 a bag for whole oats, it was 8.00 last year.

Looks good

 

[coobie]

The peas I planted are doing very well. Should be at $38 a bag. Interesting to see what they do in the end.

Rob

Good pics Rob.I planted two food plots for my old hunting buddy(75 years young) for the first time this year.They seem to be coming along just fine,and my old hunting buddy enjoys them also.coobie

 

[EddieWalker]

Rob,

Very cool.

Are there any deer tracks in the food plots? Do you have a feeder going to increase your odds? Game cam?

Eddie

 

[RobJ]

38 bucks a bag....and I was whining about 11.00 a bag for whole oats, it was 8.00 last year.

Looks good

The whole oats I planted were about the same cost as yours. I think the wheat was a little more. I'm just going oats 100% next time, I'm not sure if the wheat came up or if it looks the same. My first time for wheat.

If the peas hold up, they could be on next years list!! We can use a little rain now.

 

[RobJ]

Rob,

Very cool.

Are there any deer tracks in the food plots? Do you have a feeder going to increase your odds? Game cam?

Eddie

It's been a really weird year for cameras. All of the peas are on another guys place, I may hunt it later in the year, now I'm bow hunting the Trinity river bottom. The other stuff is up in the hills by the house. I'm not sure if my friend has any camera on the stuff. He shot a fox in the small pea patch on Sat evening.

But the weird part in the cameras, nothing but hogs. I did shoot a hog with a bow Sat evening. I have 2 cameras in the bottom and one in the hills, nothing but hogs, not 1 deer yet. We think something has run them out of the bottom, but I haven't seen any wild dogs down there. And nothing around the house(the hills). I don't mind a hog at all, but deer are harder to shoot, but easier to kill. Hogs taste better!!

Hadn't figured this season out yet.

 

[Oleozz]

Great pics!
My "food plots" unfortunately are the soybeans that I planted this spring. We have one three acre field that has been completely destroyed by the deer and they are putting a hurting to the other fields. Good news is that they prefer the soybeans over the sweet corn that we sell every summer.