http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/12/26/how-much-to-plant-in-food-plots/ Deer Hunting and Habitat Management Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/12/26/how-much-to-plant-in-food-plots/comment-page-1/#comment-4818 John Ganey Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:37:27 +0000 http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/12/26/how-much-to-plant-in-food-plots/#comment-4818 I have a small farm, about 70 acres in Maryland. I don't farm it, but have a local farmer that does. My property is surrounded by much larger farms and between them they all feel that the deer would be better off dead and gone. Over the years I have seen the deer population decrease as well as the number of healthy bucks. I see more plain pitiful racks on some older deer and its starting to show in the younger ones. My plan is to try to get the surrounding farmers to agree to a management program involving food plots and limited buck harvest. My question is how much and what kind of food plots would best benefit my situation? Will it decrease the amount of crop damage. Thanks. I have a small farm, about 70 acres in Maryland. I don’t farm it, but have a local farmer that does. My property is surrounded by much larger farms and between them they all feel that the deer would be better off dead and gone. Over the years I have seen the deer population decrease as well as the number of healthy bucks. I see more plain pitiful racks on some older deer and its starting to show in the younger ones. My plan is to try to get the surrounding farmers to agree to a management program involving food plots and limited buck harvest. My question is how much and what kind of food plots would best benefit my situation? Will it decrease the amount of crop damage. Thanks.

]]> http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/12/26/how-much-to-plant-in-food-plots/comment-page-1/#comment-2535 Lacy Batten Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:12:17 +0000 http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/12/26/how-much-to-plant-in-food-plots/#comment-2535 When is the best time to start planting food plots? And what is the best thing to plant? I hunt a wooded area and think I would need to rake out the area, for I am not able to get in there with a tractor to disk it up. But where I throw out corn it sprouts up without fertilizer. When is the best time to start planting food plots? And what is the best thing to plant? I hunt a wooded area and think I would need to rake out the area, for I am not able to get in there with a tractor to disk it up. But where I throw out corn it sprouts up without fertilizer.

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