Food Plot Basics

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Oklahomabassin

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Had just added the lease recently and it was a last second deal. Hired someone to do the cutting and discing so I really can’t redo it. I wish I would’ve sprayed them now. Might have to rehire them after the grass dries out more I guess


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What town is it close to? Maybe someone here has a connection that run over again.
 

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If it were about a month ago I'd have time to help you out.

Here's a rental in Shawnee, https://www.gprents.com/contact-us.asp

$175 daily for a 35hp tractor and $100 for a 3pt roto-tiller. Speed x Implement width(in ft) x .1212 tells how many acres per hour you can do. 2mph x 5' tiller x .1212 would be 1.2a per hour. 3"-5" depth would take care of the trash as long as it's had a few days to dry out and it looks like it's brown already.
 

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Hey Dennis I have one plot about 5 acres that was thick like yours. Seeds kept plugging up the radiator and took forever just to cut. Cut yesterday and disc'd today with an 8 ft. offset. The ground is worked but covered in thick grass. I don't have a rake and definitey not doing by hand. Do you or anyone else here think that if I spread seed and try to drag (which will probably be a big clump of grass) that the seed will take off?
If you will look at my second pic. There are huge clumps of johnson grass everywhere. After it was mowed, I left it for a week to let the moisture out of the residue. Went in with a 6' 3 point tiller when the grass was dry and it chopped up nicely while being incorporated into the soil. Spread 3 times the required amount of ladino clover over the finely worked soil and drove over it with the tractor to just press the tiny seed into the soil.
Need a rain event that lasts for several days to get good germination. The cooler weather will hold the moisture in the soil longer.
 

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Went out to pull camera cards on my place here in Piedmont and found my food plots have really taken off over the last week.
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