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Lime and Fertilizer for Food Plots: What Actually Grows a Better Plot  It's a familiar pattern: good seed, decent rain, a couple bags of whatever fertilizer was on the shelf at the co-op, and the plot still comes up thin...

Should you mow your clover food plot? Learn when mowing helps, when it hurts, and why timing matters more than you think.

No tractor? No problem. The complete throw-and-mow method for planting a productive food plot with nothing but a sprayer, a spreader, and a weed eater.

The best fall plot isn't about picking a species — it's about planting what deer actually want to eat. Here's the straight answer on what goes in the ground this fall, and what stays on the shelf.

Every year around the middle of summer, the same thing happens. Hunting season still feels a long way off, the thermometer says it's definitely not fall, and food plots are the last thing on most guys' minds. Then everybody snaps out of it at once, rushes to get seed, and plants their fall plots whenever they can squeeze it in — ready or not.

And every year, a whole lot of those plots disappoint.

Here's the thing: the difference between a plot that looks like a magazine cover in November and one that's thin, weedy, or flat-out dead usually isn't the seed, and it isn't the soil. It's the timing.

So many guys have told us the same story about their brassica plots. You planted a nice field, they came up great — maybe one of the nicest looking plots you ever planted. Big leafy greens, bulbs bulging out of...

Have you ever wondered why some bucks just do not seem to carry the potential to be giants? Or why in some areas of the country, the entire herd seems to be smaller than average? Hunters across the country have...

If you’ve ever planted a food plot for deer, you know that not all plots are the same. What you may not know is that not all clovers are the same either. While they get lumped together and treated as...

One of the most common questions we get asked is how to combat weeds after planting. While having a few weeds in your plot isn’t usually something to worry about, it can become a problem if they spread and out-compete...

The fervor of food plotting peaks every year during late Summer and early Fall as hundreds of thousands of hunters all over the country plant plots that they hope will turn into destinations for big bucks. For many hunters this...

Soil Testing  Why you need one and how to do it: Soil testing is one of the most important parts of planting your plots and in this video we walk you through exactly how to do a soil test. Its...

Jointvetch, deer vetch, Aeschynomene, all different names for a little-known native forb that is an absolute rockstar when planted for deer, turkey, quail, and dove. Not to be confused with traditional “vetch” (like hairy vetch) this plant is not actually a vetch at all. It’s a native legume that is more closely related to beans and peas than vetch. We can’t believe that this species is as overlooked as it is given all of its benefits.

 

We recently worked with a client on a management plan for their property and as part of that plan we had to give an unusual recommendation: Stop any and all predator control on the property. That’s something you wont hear...

Imagine this: Hunting season is almost here, and that means it is time to put your food plots in the ground. You spend months planning out every detail of each plot: taking soil samples, spreading lime, spraying herbicides, prepping the...

Every whitetail hunter knows just how fun it is to sit in a blind or tree stand on the edge of a food plot on a bitterly cold day. They seem to become magnets to deer because they need the...

Imagine it’s a crisp fall day, a cold front has rolled in and you finally have the perfect wind to go hunt your favorite stand. You grab all your gear and head out the door full of anticipation. You get...