Photo by Charles Alsheimer I was like a proud father waiting to show off his newborn son. I had recently closed on my own 17-acre patch of dirt and invited whitetail habitat guru Jeff Sturgis for a visit. Sturgis, who offers habitat-consulting services, spent more than an hour scouring the ground and was ready to make some recommendations for enhancements that would, I hoped, make the land more attractive to the area's whitetails and turkeys.
Food Plots for Deer is an excellent way to attract, nourish and retain healthy deer on your hunting property. Here are a few plot options
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Deer have been known to abandon corn, wheat and even lush food plots in the name of one of their favorite meals: acorns. Wildgame Innovations Acorn Rage Deer Hunting Attractant Feed feeds their obsession with 100% real acorn flavor in an irresistible collection of rack-building attractants. All Wildgame Innovations Acorn Rage Deer Attractant products come ready-to-use straight out of the bag and effectively attract deer year-round. Get their attention with the tried-and-true powder attractant ? packed with real crushed acorns and blended with roasted soybean meal for long-lasting taste and flavor. Acorns are collected, crushed, and blended with a special oil-enriched roasted soybean meal through an extensive extrusion process. The secret lies in quickly preserving and stabilizing the fresh oils and flavors found in a real ripening acorn that just hit the ground. Wildgame Innovations Acorn Rage Deer Hunting Attractant Feed is the deer attractant answer you have been longing for in the woods.
Woodland food plots can help you in your search for deer during hunting season. Learn more about how land clearing can help. Call A.M. Logging at 814-349-8089.
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Making the perfect menu for deer is both an art and a science. Explore these tips for creating an irresistible food plot so you’re always ready for hunting season.
All of the seeds below are very good at attracting deer to your property! Buckwheat - Improves top soil and an effective choke weed! Plant late spring to early summer. Establishes quickly. Matures in 60 days. Accumulates phosphorus and and potassium for following crops. Frost sensitive. All below packages come in 1lb. bags. Crimson Clover - Winter annual protects and improves soil! Plant fall or early spring. A good nitrogen fixer (70-150 lbs per acre per year). Showy crimson blooms in late spring are an excellent source of nectar for bees. Inter-seeds well with grass. Austrian Winter Pea - A great cool season legume for cover crops, wildlife and winter grazing! Austrian winter pea, sometimes called "black pea" and "field pea" is a cool-season, annual legume with good, nitrogen-fixing capabilities. Austrian winter pea is a low-growing, viny legume which has been shown to fix over 200 pounds of nitrogen per acre per year. Peas - Grow regular old peas in your deer food plot. One of the most preferred vegetables for deer. Oats - Oats will kill off winter weeds and hold soil with a mat of vegetation! A high yielding oat that can produce over 100 bushels per acre. Plant anytime of the year. Deer will graze oats all year round. Barkant Forage Turnip - Great forage crop that provides high energy feed! Barkant turnips are an improved, early maturing, diploid turnip wtih a large purple tankard shaped bulb. Barkant turnips have a high leaf to stem ratio and and provide very high contentrations of protein, sugar content and leaf yields. Barkant Turnips are ideally suited for wildlife. Dwarf Essex Rape - A cabbage related plant that is a perfect grazer! Dwarf Essex Rape is a perfect grazer plant that will persist well after the first frost. Ready to pasture 6-8 weeks after sowing. Hairy Vetch - Sow with or without grain, grass or field peas! When sown late summer, grows fast and will attract wildlife. Hairy Vetch has rapid growth that makes it a good weed suppressant.
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Mature whitetails are secretive, nocturnal creatures. Fortunately, you can break them of that “annoying” habit with this simple strategy. There seems to be three styles of deer hunters—those who hunt over food sources and take whatever comes their way, those who hunt the transitional routes between feeding and bedding areas and take whatever comes their way, […]
Keep deer coming back to your kill plot with the Ani-Logics CRUSH® Caveman Blend Food Plot Mix Deer Supplement. Featuring Crimson Clover, Forage Turnips, Rape, and Ryegrass, this no-till mix establishes in as little as 2 weeks, providing a thick, ready-to-hunt, green food source. Manufacturer model #: 24004. Fast-growing mix No-till formula Diverse mix provides a blend of nutrients Long-lasting forages keep deer coming back
Want to know the secret to attract top-quality deer? It starts with creative food plot planning. And you should start long before opening day! If you are new to planting food plots or need a quick refresher, read our Food Plots for Beginners guide for a strong start. Then get ready to start checking those game cameras!
Ready to go organic on your food plots? The Crimper by PH Outdoors eliminates cover crops without having to spray any expensive chemicals.
If you want to shorten the time it takes to get soil ready, planted and healthy for flourishing food plots, check out the DeerGro Ultimate Combo Kit.
Planting small orchards of select, late-dropping fruit trees for deer can draw and hold wildlife on your property for better hunting.
