Food Plots Plot insurance

[megalomaniac]

Started planting this area last year. About 5 acres overall, but reserved about an acre left in native browse (greenbrier, blackberry, coralberry, etc). Bushhogged and fertilized the native browse back in late May, then bushhogged strips in the native browse back in mid Sept. The bushhogged strips are lush with young and tender growth. The plot itself in the foreground has some wheat and brassicas, but a fair amount of weed competition as well (native browse in the background on the left side in the ground level pic). Overall, the planted portion of the plot is pretty poor. There's about 10 does and 7 bucks using this spot regularly to feed.

Drought years are prime to manage for native browse, and it makes for a great insurance policy!

 

[Popcorn]

Beautiful!
I have advocated for this for years

 

[DoubleRidge]

Nice! We have bush hogged strips like this into taller native vegetation for years and late this summer we added a larger 1/2 acre block. Currently these areas are greener than any of our foods plots...they look great...also in the taller vegetation, when we add strips, the deer will follow those paths....but in the future were hoping to strip disk some areas to release more forbs....several areas that we've bush hogged year after year are turning more towards grasses...not disk to bare dirt, just disk roughly to open the seed bank...very cost effective way to add tons of forage to your property.