Best Late Winter Deer Food

[@laketoridgefilms207]

Just listened to your mock scrape podcast. The end of it was very eye opening. I appreciate the free lessons, you guys are so busy!

[@drewharman1690]

Getting out this weekend to frost seed some switch! Best thing we did last year is have a combination of corn and greens

[@alexpinnow6509]

Great information, can't wait to see what your valleys of bedding and deer browse turn into!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks Alex...we can't wait to show you!

[@alexpinnow6509]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 enjoying the tour right now on the new video!! Like a kid in a candy shop......

[@joshny4766]

Morning Jeff. This is a great "big picture" video. With great deer habitat comes great habitat for smaller mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, etc.. Biodiversity is something we all need to think more about. Whether it be in our deer woods or even around the yards of our houses! Variety is where it's at. Good stuff.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Josh AND it's a lot of fun!

[@isaacswift-lv3yr]

Thanks Jeff! Literally just got done listening to your latest podcast!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Nice Isaac...thank YOU! I hope you liked it...

[@isaacswift-lv3yr]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Sure did!

[@davemi00]

It’s after Jan, deer really hit our Eastern WhiteCedars. And dig up the Red Oak acorns. N Mich, Atlanta

[@mikeclement5383]

I'm going all in with winter food. I'm planting mast trees, brassicas, and dogwoods that they can chew on. Chestnut hybrids throw down chestnuts every year in abundance. Lots of tonnages too. I find it to be king to oak. Oak only throws down every other year or every couple years. It's nice when they do, but I want a yearly banger. Obviously I plant a variety. I do it all. Anything I can do to help the ecosystem.

[@janitorialguy4436]

Good advice, thanks Jeff

[@kurtpearson2793]

Really appreciate seeing examples of interior wood cuttings 👍 it was hard to know if my imagination matched the reality.

[@jongutierrez9116]

Hardwood regeneration is crucial! Free winter food and cover! Quick question Jeff, for hunting in the Bluff Country, do you prefer to hunt the edges of the property, if food destination locations are centrally located on the property.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Jon! It really depends on where food can be located and where depth of cover is. We have food centrally located in WI and we can't hunt it with a bow. So we hunt the bedding and movements around the food. In MN we have food located on edge, so we can hunt between the food, on the edge and yo the side. Tough for a definitive answer

[@jongutierrez9116]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Awesome!Thank you for all the content you put out! It helps speeds up the process on learning about habitat management!

[@kurtpearson2793]

My neighbors rotate soybeans and corn. Should i adjust my plots to accommodate soy this coming year? (Heavy brassicas is my plan) (2/3 brassicas 1/3 greens)

[@samhuston08]

Watched a ton of your videos on summer plots. How many deer do you target for a 46 acre parcel selectively cut, hilly, lots of browse. 70 acres surround same make up no hunting. Ag not close. Feel herd is low traffic low. Trying to clear access for travel about 4 acres available for plots.

[@rohlfing63]

Jeff, I'm looking at a property that has a lot of cedars on it. Obviously they can provide great cover so I wouldn't want to eradicate them, but do they have any value from a browse perspective?

[@keithgunderson8926]

Any benefit to mowing down large areas of tag alder to either let regenerate or plant shrub cuttings?

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Keith! Yes, for planting red osier in them...as well as rotational strip cutting for woodcock worming areas

[@keithgunderson8926]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I like the red osier idea, i gotta imagine the cut alders make a fairly got screening for the ROD to grow!

[@ihus9950]

Thanks guys👍🏻

[@anthonymalueg3520]

I was surprised at how many shoots and re-GEN Aspen was capable of

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

It is incredible...

[@davidyontz09]

I close on a piece of property right after Easter don't know if ill have enough time for switch grass spray and plant before June

[@alexpinnow6509]

Depending on your part of the country you should have time. I established switch into late June in Southern WI

[@davidyontz09]

@@alexpinnow6509 hey thanks for that I'm going to try to get it sprayed for the first time the day I close

[@alexpinnow6509]

@@davidyontz09 good luck! Depending on rain situation and what not can really open up time frame or pinch it down. I will say I just straight up broadcast that switchgrass in a drought year and it limped along to under 1ft tall the first year. Weed control with simazine pre green-up year 2&3 and it is my best stand of switch. This will be the beginning of the 4th year and it is a mature stand over my head through November until wet snow beats it down.

[@davidyontz09]

How does simazine need before I plant switch. If I don't have time now can I spray gly mid April 1st may end May then plant switch still do ok

[@joshny4766]

Hi David. I've planted all my switch without using simazine. Reason being you need an applicators license in NY to buy it, which I don't have ! I rely strictly on gly, 2-4d and mowing .

[@trentjanowski]

Hey Jeff/Dylan, do you find that during this time of year bucks are more tolerant to being around does/fawns and even bedding near them? Or do you find that they tend to be more solitary like in fall? Are the bucks still bedding farther off food sources than does?

[@tythomps]

There are hunters in MN that supplemental feed Jan thru Aug, then have to stop feeding for the hunting season. Would love for you to do a video to share with others on how HORRIBLE of a management method that is and how horrible it is for the habitat to congregate the deer for so much of the year, only to pull it for hunting season.

[@shawnmyers9571]

I like tha 20 min videos

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

We definitely like a blend! I believe our average is right around 16 min but I know that varies greatly

[@kurtpearson2793]

First

[@isaacswift-lv3yr]

Dang it!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Ha, must have been! Snuck it in before Ben 👍

[@davemi00]

Don’t encourage these children.

[@kurtpearson2793]

Food and bedding boys, food and bedding.

[@isaacswift-lv3yr]

​@@kurtpearson2793 Yes sir!

[@isaacswift-lv3yr]

First!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Almost Isaac...

[@davemi00]

Don’t Encourage these children.

[@benborgschatz9525]

1st

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

I think so Ben?