Food Plot Basics

[Deer Slayer]

Erickmelo - You are correct but you must do your homework before planting first to determine your soil conditions. When you review your test results then you either remediate the soil or plant whatever will grow under those set of conditions. I work with landowners and assist them in determining what is best for their soil and remediate where necessary. I assisted a wheat farmer in 2012 and increased his yield by 46% and saved him $120/acre on fertilizer. He simply started a program to restore his soil, increased his fertility and begin remediating the effects of salt water contamination due to drilling. He did this and saved $120/acre on fertilizer plus increased the yield. This study was reported in a national magazine.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

I hope we get the rain predicted next week. My food plots need it.

 

[dennishoddy]

My food plots are dead. My wheat fields are dead.
Ponca news reported this area is the driest in recorded history now. Worse than the dust bowl days.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

My food plots are dead. My wheat fields are dead.
Ponca news reported this area is the driest in recorded history now. Worse than the dust bowl days.

Yep its pretty sad. My plots aren't real big, but they are still green, grazed short, but still green.

 

[Deer Slayer]

 

[dennishoddy]

IF anybody can believe the weather folks on tv, they said the Ponca area might get .4 with the rain moving in Sunday.

 

[Okie4570]

Sprinkling at my house...............

 

[Deer Slayer]

Sprinkled at Oakwood tonight. Pray for rain Ponca needs it!

 

[Okie4570]

I was west of Ponca a ways this afternoon, I was setting a trap in a dry creek bed. There was very little wind, I hear something crashing thru the leaves up above me, sounded like a diller. Sure enough, this diller dives off of the edge above me, trots across the creek bed, leaving a large dust cloud behind him, just like the dust cloud cattle would leave in a corral, it's really, really dry. .22 pistol was in the truck of course.

 

[Deer Slayer]

Last Tuesday when I was driving to Nebraska I lost count after 14 the number of dillers between Guthrie and Tonkawa. I could have had a ball shootin dillers with my .22 mag out of the passenger window. I also could have received a stern talkin to by OHP plus a ticket or worse. I dont think the trooper would believe self defense." Honestly, Officer I was exercising my Second Amendment rights against a herd of marauding dillers" He would have been jealous cause he didnt get to do it