RCDuck
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Below are a few pictures of my first ever attempt at a food plot.
I planted 4 acres of Eagle soybeans on a previously fallow bottomland pasture. Planted April 15, had quick germination followed by several weeks of very dry conditions. Timely rains the last couple of weeks really got the beans going. They are being used pretty heavily based on trail cam pics and the exclusion cage I set up but they seem to be staying ahead of the browsing pressure so far.
I sprayed the field yesterday to try to get rid of a few weeds and also mowed and sprayed some other locations for fall plots. This is the first time I've had property of my own that I could plant plots, and so far, it's been very rewarding. I had plans to do two spring/summer plots but I figured out pretty quickly that it takes a while to get a plot ready in existing pasture land, so I decided to just do this one plot this spring and hopefully add to it next year.

I planted 4 acres of Eagle soybeans on a previously fallow bottomland pasture. Planted April 15, had quick germination followed by several weeks of very dry conditions. Timely rains the last couple of weeks really got the beans going. They are being used pretty heavily based on trail cam pics and the exclusion cage I set up but they seem to be staying ahead of the browsing pressure so far.
I sprayed the field yesterday to try to get rid of a few weeds and also mowed and sprayed some other locations for fall plots. This is the first time I've had property of my own that I could plant plots, and so far, it's been very rewarding. I had plans to do two spring/summer plots but I figured out pretty quickly that it takes a while to get a plot ready in existing pasture land, so I decided to just do this one plot this spring and hopefully add to it next year.



