BSK ? on Food plots

[look'n 4 deer]

When do you guys prepare and plant plots, (replant and new!)

What do you recomend to plant, spring, summer, fall & winter??
Do I need to follow the Whitetail Institutes guidelines for planting?
If so, which seed's should we plant?
We will be planting several plots of differant sizes across an 895 ac. farm in Hardeman county.
Last year the farm had corn and then winter wheat!
This year the farm had soybean and now is awaiting spring planting, which I was told the farmer is planting corn again this year.
Last year with the corn the deer were everywhere.
This year with the soybean the deer were few and far between.
Since we will have the farm for the next several years the food plots will need to provide on the years without the corn to keep deer on the farm.
Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Football Hunter]

Not BSK,but you are a PRIME candidate to get the QDMA food plot book,will answer all your questions.Get it at their web site.

 

[Football Hunter]

deer love soybeans,wonder what was the difference,must have had a big acorn crop,over rules every thing else most times

 

[look'n 4 deer]

Good acorn crop and bad soybean crop!
I have always herd deer loved soybean,...... but I know for a fact they love CORN!!!!!!

 

[Football Hunter]

no doubt about soy beans either

 

[look'n 4 deer]

That book is $29.95!!
Which is fine if it gives me what I want as per specific area.
Has anyone on here purchased this workbook and did it help?

 

[Football Hunter]

29.99 is less than most bags of seed,get it if you want,BSK is quoted in it,you will spend much more messing up,it covers most every situation

 

[look'n 4 deer]

Thanks!
I have ordered it!!

 

[Football Hunter]

you wont regret it,I have read mine a dozen times,its by "the throne"

 

[Football Hunter]

Thanks!
I have ordered it!!

A CONVERT!

 

[BSK]

The QDMA's food plot book is the "Bible" of food plots. I also recommend the booklets produced by UT's Ag Extension office. Dr. Craig Harper has put together some great stuff, and all about food plots in TN specifically.

Soybeans aren't a draw during hunting because they're a summer crop. Deer are attracted to eating the living plant, and the plan dies before or at the first frost. Corn is a hunting season draw because the deer want the seed (corn kernals themselves), not the growing plant. And any high-starch/carbohydrate food source is going to be highly preferred in fall/winter over high protein foods.