Food Plots food plot fertilizer

[diamond hunter]

What is the best fertilizer to put on a food plot that hasn't had a soil sample on?How much per acre?Can the fertilizer be put on it after the seeds have been planted by a week?Thanks

 

[Tn Joe]

15/15/15 3-400lbs to the acre

 

[MickThompson]

It will depend on what you are planting, and what yield you deem acceptable. You can fertilize after the fact. What about lime?

 

[spoon]

100-150 per acre will work, but you need to get a soil sample.

 

[diamond hunter]

Reason I ask is that ive had a food plot in a field every year for the past 5-6 years,always have plenty of deer in the plot during huntin time and I have never put one ounce of fertilizer down..My son has shot several there.Anyway,I have no way of judging how much difference fertilizer can make and what good it would even do.Im gonna get a few bags and put it in that spreader and see.

 

[MickThompson]

Broadcast it on half and put up some cages to see the difference. Forage plots will still perform ok without a lot of fertilizer if properly managed otherwise, but they will not yield as much, and forget trying to grow a decent grain crop without it.

 

[Yokel]

I used 19-19-19 a few weeks ago and have only had 2/10's of rain since used about 200 lb per acre would be nice to get rain!

I looked at it this AM and it's looking rough we need rain in a bad way. On bright side my cow peas are looking good thats about it!

 

[Boone 58]

I prefer 13-13-13, we use clover, white, and wheat. The clover stores nitrogen in its root system and the wheat benefits from taking it. Since white clover and wheat get consistently hammered by our deer it is a great combination.