Food plot

[cajunguy88]

Never developed a plot before. I have cattle on my land and an abundance of hogs.

My questions are:

1. What should I plant in southeast Texas (south of Houston)?

2. Should I fence the area? It will be inside of a wooded area, not in an open field.

I was looking at something along the line of the "Throw and Grow" that can be found at local Academy stores. Any thoughts on something like that?

Thanks for any help!!

[ranchdog]

You are not going to have any luck with throw and grow stuff in the summer. Maybe in the fall with roughed up ground.

You have to keep the cows out of it. You could electric fence it and try to adjust the number and height of wires to keep cows out and let deer in. At first you have to keep the deer out too or they will kill summer plots. You may have to spray for grasshoppers if they are bad.

Here is my website on my Summer food plots. Fall hunting plots are easy. Plant oats in mid Sept and hope for rain.

http://www.ranchdogu.com/DeerPage/food_plots/foodplotsnew.htm

Ranchdog

[gravesc987]

You are not going to have any luck with throw and grow stuff in the summer. Maybe in the fall with roughed up ground.

You have to keep the cows out of it. You could electric fence it and try to adjust the number and height of wires to keep cows out and let deer in. At first you have to keep the deer out too or they will kill summer plots. You may have to spray for grasshoppers if they are bad.

Here is my website on my Summer food plots. Fall hunting plots are easy. Plant oats in mid Sept and hope for rain.

http://www.ranchdogu.com/DeerPage/food_plots/foodplotsnew.htm

Ranchdog

Wow, your website is VERY informative. Thank you very much for posting that. To kill all your weeds you sprayed round up? How long before you plant should you do that. We planted our first plots this past year in south texas and we had a problem with native grass and brush taking over.

[gravesc987]

Wow, your website is VERY informative. Thank you very much for posting that. To kill all your weeds you sprayed round up? How long before you plant should you do that. We planted our first plots this past year in south texas and we had a problem with native grass and brush taking over.

Also when we planted we were discing over grass that was coming up, we did not have that nice, only dirt, seed bed.

[cajunguy88]

Thanks for the info and for the link!

[ranchdog]

Wow, your website is VERY informative. Thank you very much for posting that. To kill all your weeds you sprayed round up? How long before you plant should you do that. We planted our first plots this past year in south texas and we had a problem with native grass and brush taking over.

That nice clean dirt started out the same as you with native grass. The best way to attack it is to plow a burn row around it now. Then in Feb burn it with fire. Then in March when you see the native grass starting to come up give it a bit of time to get growing. Then go in with RoundUp and spray the heck out of it. Next plant RoundUP Ready Soy beans. After 28 days from sprouting Spray again. Keep spraying until all your grass and weeds die out.

Good Luck, Ranchdog

[LWolken]

Ranch dog, you may have better luck with wheat on that plot that hold water. It will do better than oats. We bought a rototiller and its amazing!

[Brannon74]

roundup ready alfalfa just got released also after being off the market for a while. might be worth looking into.

[ranchdog]

roundup ready alfalfa just got released also after being off the market for a while. might be worth looking into.

Hum, I like !!!

[ranchdog]

Ranch dog, you may have better luck with wheat on that plot that hold water. It will do better than oats. We bought a rototiller and its amazing!

Thanks LWolken, I have used wheat before and it did very well. The problem came in the spring in that man did it grow a huge root ball and stem to make wheat. But I was replanting Soybeans and I had big trouble getting it roto tilled down. The oats till under much better.

Ranchdog