A basic food plot will provide valuable nutrition to deer and add important biodiversity to most woodland landscapes. But, there is a big difference between a basic food plot and what can really be done with a food plot if you set your standards high and know what you are looking for. Here are a few things to think about when building your next plot.

Basic food plots provide deer with 1-2 tons of green matter per year. You plant them with anything that will grow and forget about them until hunting season.

Advanced food plots provide deer with 3-5 tons of highly nutritious, easy to digest nutrition per year. They are planted with scientifically developed, food plot blends designed for deer not cattle. The plots are planted on well-prepared seed beds, they are limed when necessary, and are given a generous shot of fertilizer in spring and late summer. They are also sprayed with grass specific herbicides during the growing season and mowed to keep broad leaf weeds down. [ Read Full Post ]

It seems like everyone is planting food plots these days; and for good reason. Wildlife benefits from them and they make for great hunting. Food plotters spend endless hours pouring over seed catalogs in hopes of finding the perfect food plot forage. Unfortunately they don’t spend nearly as much time thinking about the soil they are going to plant in.
 
A week ago I blogged about the importance of doing a soil analysis before planting, but that’s only the half of it. First, you have to find good dirt to work with. If you are going to hunt the plot, it has to be built correctly.

The higher quality the dirt, the better your plot will grow. Trouble is, most of the good dirt is tied up growing agricultural crops and most food plotters are forced to work with what the farmers don’t want. So how do you find good dirt for your food plots? [ Read Full Post ]

It wasn’t long ago when women’s apparel was non-existent in the hunting industry. Now you can watch husband and wife teams like Lee and Tiffany on T.V. You can be sure to see a story in just about any hunting magazine about a woman’s giant whitetail or a young girl’s first turkey. It’s great to see companies dedicated to women’s apparel. After all, hunters spend time in bad weather, long hours on the stand and cramped up in a ground blind – shouldn’t women also be dressed in comfortable, high-tech clothes? [ Read Full Post ]