Post by henson59 on Jan 22, 2013 12:41:46 GMT -5
My family and I have 220 acres in Ohio County. It is all woods except for a few small pastures. Our property has no crop fields around it for a few miles. Our neighbor does have a few small food plots on his property. The pasture I am looking to plant is about 2 acres in size and it is completely surrounded by woods in the center of our property.
I live in IL and can bring a small tractor and disk down to our place but over all we are pretty limited in our access to equipment. I am thinking about planting forage soybeans.
I would spray the field wait a couple weeks then work the ground, broadcast the soybeans and cover them with a drag.
My question to you all is Should I plant something different or break up the field into maybe 2 different crops?
We have a couple guys that hunt our property with us and they have 2 kill plots planted in this grass field already and they would like to keep it that way. But my logic is since there isn't much around by way of farm fields I want to offer a large food source to the deer and turkey that will keep them in our area.
What do you think?
I live in IL and can bring a small tractor and disk down to our place but over all we are pretty limited in our access to equipment. I am thinking about planting forage soybeans.
I would spray the field wait a couple weeks then work the ground, broadcast the soybeans and cover them with a drag.
My question to you all is Should I plant something different or break up the field into maybe 2 different crops?
We have a couple guys that hunt our property with us and they have 2 kill plots planted in this grass field already and they would like to keep it that way. But my logic is since there isn't much around by way of farm fields I want to offer a large food source to the deer and turkey that will keep them in our area.
What do you think?
