Food Plots Are In !

[Steiny77]

Been working hard last couple days, tilling, prepping and planting my spring food plots on the farm. Did four big plots totaling about 3.5 acres in soybeans and another four plots totaling about 1.5 acres in sunflowers. All of my trails have lots of white clover, so the local deer have a real smorgasbord in addition to the natural stuff.

About August or September I'll put in a couple plots of purple top turnips. Those can be a real deer magnet in late season.

 

[Mallardsx2]

Just got my dove fields in today.

 

[RealMuddyboots]

I had to redo clover plot this year and started slow due to cold weather but recent warmth and rain launched it pretty good.

 

[F250]

I had to redo clover plot this year and started slow due to cold weather but recent warmth and rain launched it pretty good.View attachment 409462View attachment 409463

What do you spray to knock down grass and broadleaf weeds ? I have had great results with IMOX… end up with a clover carpet !!!

 

[pabearhunter]

I use slay, arrest and crop oil. From Whitetail inst.

 

[Wyomufhunter]

Jealous.... I cant even get pine tree or lilac to stay alive on my property.

 

[RealMuddyboots]

What do you spray to knock down grass and broadleaf weeds ? I have had great results with IMOX… end up with a clover carpet !!!

OK, nothing. I tractor rototilled the snot out of it last fall, laid up all winter, did it again early spring right after frost, then again about 3 weeks ago. I prob should but I get 2-3 years of decent plot. It's not very big so I just keep it down this way. It's on my property so under direct control. I will have to think about control the older I get. Though right now looking darn good with simple red and white clover.

 

[beaglegun]

What do you spray to knock down grass and broadleaf weeds ? I have had great results with IMOX… end up with a clover carpet !!!

I dont keep up with herbicide trade names because I always end up with a different one every year.
Control grasses, broadleafs and sedge in clover:

• 12 oz per acre clethodem
• 2 qts per acre 2,4-db
• 1.33 oz per acre halosulfuron
• 1 qt per acre, Crop oil concentrate or nonionic surfactant

The surfactant is debatable. Crop oil for clethodem and nonionic for halosulfuron??? I have used both and I believe you control sedge much better with nonionic, and it still works for the clethodem. That's just my experience. Make sure, whatever you are spraying with, is calibrated. Whether it's a backpack pump sprayer or a boom sprayer. This is where people fail!
In KY, if you are not gonna spray, dont waste your time. You will end up with johnsongrass, smartweed, yellow nutsedge temper tantrum.

 

[beaglegun]

OK, nothing. I tractor rototilled the snot out of it last fall, laid up all winter, did it again early spring right after frost, then again about 3 weeks ago. I prob should but I get 2-3 years of decent plot. It's not very big so I just keep it down this way. It's on my property so under direct control. I will have to think about control the older I get. Though right now looking darn good with simple red and white clover.

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Clean!!! I believe that when you till you are cutting clover rhizomes and multiplying plants. You must not have the weed seeds in the soil that we have in KY