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NYS has added crossbows to the bow hunting season this year. The season opens early, so I can forget hanging a deer outside. I plan to use an ice chest and dry age the good cuts. Loins and boned hind quarters. What is you experience, method, length of time and etc? I plan to put the...

This whole FOOD PLOT/ HUNTING thing is just a hobby for our family. Wife and I live on the old family farm and our youngest son and his wife are our neighbors. Granddaughter and her husband are outdoorsmen and bought 10 acers adjoining. I paid for my college education raising replacement...

RGrizzzz your link is the Penn State info. Pelletized lime at $350 a ton is too expensive for deer! We have deduced that for every deer we harvest we have $1000+ invested. Taxes just came and we bought a new tractor this year! No end to the expenses! And folks whine because we post.

So the salesman says 3-4 gallon, $100, of his product is the same as a ton of ag lime, maybe $50 spread or $350 for a ton of pelletized lime at $7 for 40 lbs. But according to Penn State there is only 2-3 lbs of lime in a gallon of liquid lime. $100 for 8-10 lbs of lime is not cheap...

Buckly, where are you buying your seed and etc. We got ours from Pierce Milling. I would like to find some field run buckwheat, but not at $100 a bushel.

Since planting on Saturday we have gotten a little over 1/2inch of nice rain and it looks like more in the next day or two. Temperature has gone down too. It is only 50 degrees this morning. That meadow has been fallow for 20 years. In the spring when wet the 3 inch common buckthorn will...

May be a week or 2 late but we are getting rain today. I am hoping for a 1/2 inch. The attached picture shows a 1/2 acre plot in a recovered meadow. In the background you can see what the whole 5 acre meadow looked like 4 years ago. Overgrown with common buckthorn, honeysuckle, autumn olive...

We can watch 3 plots and a 1/2 acre of mono-culture rag weed from our deck. We normally have 2-7 deer grazing in the ragweed and just walking through the clover. Proves the importance of weed in your plots. We are dry, <1 1/2" of rain in July. I sprayed 4 acres of plots yesterday, but we...

I understand the Ragweed seed being used by birds, we actually planted ragweed in LA (lower Alabama) for quail feed. I didn't realize deer grazed on it as a 2 to 4 inch forb. As I recall, the seeds are high in protein, are the forbs too? Guess I won't Gly. that acre log landing , just throw...

Have been planting for 20 years. Have gone from full tillage to Spray, Throw and Mow and everything in between. We have 200 acres and plant 5+ acres yearly, rye, oats, brassica, radish and clover. Last night we watched a doe and her fawn walk through a beautiful clover plot and spend 30...

The pre mixed seed is expensive. You can buy brassica, clover, radish on Amazon and mix your own. Winter rye/wheat, buckwheat, oats you have to find locally because of shipping costs. Ask the local farmers where they are getting their seed. Having the correct Ph (lime) is important, if your...

I spray, throw and mow, it was a typo. My rye didn't germinate well, I am waiting to see what comes up this spring. Brassicas didn't do well last fall, they were stunted. I put on as much pelleted lime as I could afford. About 400 # per acre. 100 # of triple 15 per acre. We got little...

I am switching to spray, mow and throw and l was not impressed with my results last year. I am afraid our poor soil, sour, heavy, stoney and clay, may need to be tilled to get good germination. I will try again this year but am going to take Mennoniteman 's advice and do a spring planting...

78 acres isn't big enough for real deer management. But, you can have a lot of fun growing deer for your neighbors until you find out what they are doing. As already mentioned, hunt it and enjoy it and dream about what you want to do with it. And, get to know your neighbors. They may already...