FALL FOOD PLOTS...WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW!

In this video I discuss what we need to be doing in mid summer to ensure our fall food plots have the best chance for successful food plots. Fall food plots are awesome areas to pull in big bucks during the deer hunting season. Brassicas, clover, cereal rye, winter wheat, and oats are some of the food plots that are the most popular fall food plots to plant to lure those big whitetails onto your farm and keep them there during the hunting season. Preparation is key in having successful fall food plots, and during the video I go over what we need to be doing right now to ensure we have a great food plot to hunt over in the fall and winter months.

[@janitorialguy4436]

Thanks Wes

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

Thank you for watching!

[@midwesternoutdoorsandnatur8272]

Good information and great timing. Some of us have learned these lessons the hard way! Spray and let it breakdown. Disc and some of my best brassica plots have been after a second spray in between discing and planting just as the weeds sprouted in the fresh till. Good luck Wes. Another great video man.

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

Thank you sir! I completely agree, if I get a bunch of rain and I’ve worked the plot in advance, I typically spray again and kill that generation of weeds before seeding! Thanks for watching

[@w1.0]

Just remember guys if i plant a food plot its for the deer to eat period! It dont need to look like a golf course or manicured lawn if it looks ugly there might be "weeds" in there that your deer like to eat! Stay cool guys! Good luck!!!

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

No doubt! A plot is meant to attract deer and make hunts more enjoyable, and a lot of folks just enjoy doing the plot work. I agree, my plots aren’t 100% clean and free of any weeds, but I try to limit them as much as possible. I’ve seen fields that have been overtaken by resistant weeds, that started out with just a few in the field. 1 roundup resistant pig weed can drop hundreds of thousands of seeds in just one growing season. In my opinion it’s all about knowing what weeds you have, and which ones are big deals and which ones arent. Thanks for watching.

[@Richhatfield9568]

Thanks Wes..good advise. Good info...sounds like a guy has found a few more hunting acres! Congrats !

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

Thanks Rich! Yes sir, I wasn’t seeking any more land, but I couldn’t pass up this tract! It’s a phenomenal farm, with long history of some giants being taken off of it. Thanks for watching.

[@daveguttormson6315]

Great honest info Wes. Good stuff.

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

Thank you Dave! Thanks for watching

[@tripleh8979]

Perfect timing wes! I was going to overseed brassicas into beans but since beans failed because it was just way to wet , hopefully I can just spray and start a new plot of brassicas.

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

Absolutely! It’s amazing how so much of the country was terrible dry last year and this year it’s flip flopped around, a good deal of flooding in several places.

[@rfb7117]

Wes...as always good info. We sprayed everything down last week and will be planting in the next 10 days. We try to plant only once to save time, money etc, since we are interested only in a fall crop to hunt over. Bob.

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

Bob! Y’all are on top of it! I hope your health has returned to you and you get many days hunting this year! Thanks for watching

[@rfb7117]

Thanks, slow progress still relying on a walker.....hope to maybe get out this year though. My grandson and I are still doing the food plots as I enjoy seeing the deer from the house. God Bless, Bob

[@josephpalmeri-bj4tt]

Thanks for the info Wes. What method would be best if you’re broadcasting seed?

[@mikelowe3796]

Wes, those of us not having a disc or no till drill can't just broadcasting brassicas and spraying same day with just gly and rolling the vegetation work?

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

Yes you can and I’ve done it before successfully. Rain is extremely important in that process. I like to broadcast when all the grass and weeds are completely dry, so that they fall all the way to the ground, and like I said I always do it before a good rain chance. Thanks for watching and good luck

[@bamafever92]

Does killing your summer plots before fall take away the benefits of just cutting and discing it in the ground green? Or does the soil still benefit when you kill it? Thanks Wes

[@joshuakasprowicz5148]

Curious about this myself

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

That’s a complicated Answer….so technically that green manure that a lot of folks refer to won’t be there if you spray and then disk. The green manure is essentially when you turn that green vegetation into the soil, breaking plot, chisel, etc. In my opinion, I would much rather have the plot sprayed than trying to disk that in and get the green manure. I’ve never seen that much benefit from that. Thanks for watching!

[@troybrake5686]

​@@DIYfoodplotproand plowing and discing is just asking for weed explosion correct?

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

⁠yes everytime you disk or plow your disturbing the soil and the grass and weed layer. So when you do tillage you can expect the next rain event, you will have a good bunch of weeds and grasses emerging.

[@michaelgangadeen8013]

I don’t understand why anyone likes brassicas. The deer eat the forage tops early and once eaten, they are gone. When they are starving later in the winter, they will take a bite or two out of the bulbs. There is nothing left to eat afterwards Compared to cereal grains, which grows all winter and feeds the deer until the spring, my money is on the the later.

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

I use both cereal grains and brassicas. I’ve actually got a video coming out soon talking about this exact subject. I’ll have to honestly say, the brassicas plots last year were prolly my most fruitful over all….not the best plot I ever had but for the year of acorns, they did really well at keeping deer in and around the plots. Thanks for watching

[@daveguttormson6315]

Move to northern MN and let us know how your cerial grains grow in the winter. Lol.

[@johnl7593]

I’m in southern NY. Deer absolutely love Brassica here. They love the bulbs and hammer them all winter. I have several other plots with cereal grains and clover and get twice as many pictures on Brasica plots.

[@michaelgangadeen8013]

@@johnl7593 I had land in southern NY also near the Ellenville area. Surprised to hear deer prefer brassica more than cereal grains/clover. Even more surprised to hear that they lasted all winter long. My NY deer lived in poor habitat and would eat anything but they loved clover except for the winters when the clover went dormant. I guess the answer is that preference is specific and you have to see what works for you. Good luck this season.

[@user-vd2bm1sm2d]

My brassica plot I'm going to plant this year was cereal grains and red clover last year (planted in September). I mowed the grains off in the spring and I've had a nice stand of red clover all year long so far. Can I count on any nitrogen credits from the red clover and lower my nitrogen for the brassica?

[@DIYfoodplotpro]

That’s a wonderful question!!! Clover can actually fix more nitrogen than most other legumes. As I’ve discussed nitrogen can be leached out quickly though. You SHOULD have enough to raise the brassicas plot from the clover….however I would keep a close eye on it and if you start to see a yellowing or just not that dark green clover, I would roll the nitrogen to it. My gut says you will likely have to add some, but definitely not a full rate. Thanks for watching and good luck with the plots.