Food plot ?? In pig area

[Bowtech32]

Question, have a new lease in Pittsburgh county Oklahoma. Like to put a couple of plots in but the place has pigs on it. Is it worth the trouble to just plant wheat and oats or is the pigs just going to tear it up. I know with turnips or thing like that I would be wasting time but I figured something like wheat and/or Oats it may have a fighting chance.

[Drycreek3189]

I have had almost no rooting in my plots here at home or on my lease (also in E Texas). I had a little trouble in one plot on a place I used to own but it was in a creek bottom and they didn’t root it very much. If I were you I would at least try it. Don’t plant corn though, they found mine overnight and ate every dang kernel !

[gonehuntin]

One thing I have noticed, if I roller pack the plot the pigs dont bother them. If I just drag over the seed, they will live in the plot until the seeds are gone. Same with getting rain on the plot the same day its planted, never had them root those plots up.

[Radar]

Question, have a new lease in Pittsburgh county Oklahoma. Like to put a couple of plots in but the place has pigs on it. Is it worth the trouble to just plant wheat and oats or is the pigs just going to tear it up. I know with turnips or thing like that I would be wasting time but I figured something like wheat and/or Oats it may have a fighting chance.

I have never seen hogs eat my turnips, wheat, oats or daikon radish. Corn, maize, big sunflower heads and sorghum will have ever hog in a mile at my place. Johnson grass roots, wild onion, and nut sedge are their main natural targets here and there is chemicals to kill it off but it takes time. Make you a couple small plots and see what happens.

[Bowtech32]

Gives me a bit more confidence, most likely the first year I will not put a ton of time in it. Want to make sure this is the lease I want to hang on to for a while first.

[dbaio1]

We have a large and healthy hog population in North Louisiana. We experience less 5% damage to our planted plots from hogs. Been that way for almost 15 years when they showed up.

[HOOKNBULLET2]

We plant 20 acres in oats about 60 miles south of San Antonio. Most years the pigs don’t mess with them. But last year was a different story. The pigs hammered the oats continuously.

[S-3 Ranch]

One thing I have noticed, if I roller pack the plot the pigs dont bother them. If I just drag over the seed, they will live in the plot until the seeds are gone. Same with getting rain on the plot the same day its planted, never had them root those plots up.

Same experience, I planted a long pipeline ( 9miles) and hogs tore up the areas not packed .

[Drycreek3189]

I will add that for the last few years hogs have been hitting my plots to eat, not to root. They don’t stay in them like deer do but they will eat my wheat and medium red clover mix.

[Big pig]

Given those responses snd my experience I wouldn’t disk the plots to plant. I would use the “no-till” method.
On my own land we fenced out food plots with great success.
and no tilled anyway.

[Bowtech32]

I was not going to put a ton of work this year. Plan is to run over it a couple times with the ATV disc just enough to scuff it up grass and all. Throw out some seeds and run it over 1 more time. So when the grass dies out there should be some green. Not looking to win an award but enough to draw in some deer