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It all depends on what your goal is and what you are trying to do.

We are re-making all of our food plots this fall. Therefore, we bushhogged 2 weeks ago. Cut it low and hoping the heat will dry things up. This fall, there will be less work.
 
JCDEERMAN said:
It all depends on what your goal is and what you are trying to do.
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X2, A bushhog can be your friend. If you want to reclaim overgrown areas for food plots etc. you can bushhog anytime the vegetation is green wait a day or so for regrowth and hit it with a good herbacide [roundup etc] break up the ground, take a soil sample, lime, fertilize accordingly and plant at the reccomended times.
You can also create travel corridors through over grown areas with a bushhog.
Simply bushhogging an overgrown field will stimulate new growth from weeds and forbs which deer will eat.
 
JCDEERMAN said:
It all depends on what your goal is and what you are trying to do.

We are re-making all of our food plots this fall. Therefore, we bushhogged 2 weeks ago. Cut it low and hoping the heat will dry things up. This fall, there will be less work.
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The taller you let the weeds grow the more thatch you have build up later and cause more work clearing it. Keep it mowed low and the less work you have in getting a clean disking....just what jcdeer said.
 
monsterbuck07 said:
When should you do it? And why?
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I read this last night and thought about it again today while bushhogging. I cut a area today that I cut 60 days ago. It had saplings 3 feet tall today. I'm not sure what they were, but they looked like Poplar's. Some properties you can get away with only cutting once a year. Some, you cant wait that long unless you've got a real strong bushhog. Your fields can go wild and turn back to forest pretty quick.
 
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I have done shooting lanes about every possible way there are to do them.

I have cut fields low and left fields high.

And I dont know which way fits best with our place. If I cut it low the deer utilize the area but just move through the field at a quick pace. If I leave it high I may or may not see the deer. Kind of torn. Here is a picture of our most productive field.

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