How does this only have 400 likes? The most informative food plot information available anywhere. This is something most people can implement on their parcels. Bravo WHS

Thanks for the video Jeff. This will be my first year following your no till strategy from spring throughout the year. I’ve followed your videos and implemented several of your management methods along with seeding your fall plantings on my parents old dairy farm in northern NY for the past couple of years. It’s left a lot of the neighbors scratching their heads as to what I was doing and likely the butt of a few jokes... until last fall when we harvested one of the largest bucks taken in the area in probably 3 decades. I’m a true believer. Keep up the great work. I’ll be sure to give my neighbors a smirk and head nod from the seat of my 4 wheeler this summer.

GREAT video. There's so much information out there by guys who have access to farm equipment. This puts everything you need to know in one video.

"You do not need to remortgage your house to plant food plots this fall" legendary quote! Trying your buckwheat no till system this fall in upstate ny! Going to try forage sorghum on the edges of the plot as a screen wish me luck !

Hey Jeff you really don’t need to remind everyone every single video that you created and invented these practices and which year and how many years you have done it, we get it your awesome. 👏

Good morning Jeff. Great video. This will be my first yr doing food plots. Thanks for all the great advice via the web and your book!

Hey Jeff up in northern mn starting my access trails this weekend around perimeter of property to start my "inside out property" then spraying next weekend ,pumped to turn around the property to no pressure all deer all the time thanks for all the info keep up the good work

We planted about 1 1/2 acres of buckwheat on a new lease early June in Upstate New York. I thought we were in trouble as we had limited rain for a couple weeks. I visited the plot today and its thick and green. Some spots 12-16 inches. We'll be knocking it down in about 3 weeks and planting our Fall Plot. Great advice and video here. Thanks Jeff !

Awesome info! So nice to see how this can be done without $80K worth of equipment

Jeff this is genius, I am so excited to do this..I am one that cant afford the ag equipment, and it always really hurts my finances to rent equipment...your wisdom and videos has helped Me as an outfitter and hunter

Jeff, I am a South Alabama wildlife manager. I own 88 acres and have been following you for years. The rut and fawn cycle is so different from most of your followers. Our fawns are born in late summer. So it is important to have a summer and winter food source. My fall date for planting is first of October. I have adjusted my planting dates from your plans and I thank you for sharing ALL of your management plans.

Already started spraying. Looking forward to starting this method on a couple plots this year. Thanks Jeff!

Great video brother as always and be safe out there and GOD BLESS you and your family Amen 🙏

Another great video ! I can’t wait to try this !

Nice info. Thinking come August I will mow, week later spray, week or so later with adequate humidity I will prescribe burn, then broadcast fall mix. Will add your steps in here and there too, thanks!!

Thanks for another great video... I think it's setting up for a dry summer here in SE WI so this will be a method I focus on this season...we have the toys to till, but poor soil in many areas... looking forward to great plots

Jeff love your videos! Started with brassicas and rye last season in eastern NC and now want to use the ultimate no till. Put out buckwheat yesterday to try to get in 2 rounds before fall planting Labor Day. Problem is my rye and brassicas have grown to 5-6 feet already with the warm winter we had. Gonna cultipack and spray tomorrow. Am I going to have too much debris for this to work? Planned to plant and spray buckwheat again in 7 weeks.

Thanks Jeff you helped me out with this in a reply to my comment on what and when to knock down last years winter rye. I need to start addressing how to get bare soil contact strips for switchgrass so I can plant it next February or March. There is tall native grasses that needs to be removed in order to get down to the soil. When and how what is the best method to achieve this?

Jeff I appreciate all the info it’s great. Just finished cultipacking buck wheat after I spread Northwoods sweet feast brassica mix. And before I could spray round up it rained for about 30 mins a nice soaker. How many days do I have before spraying will adversely effect my planting?

Jeff, excellent explanation step by step. I can't wait to implement my 2020 WHS food plot program by Jeff Sturgis. One question, when you mentioned on labor day to add 200lb winter rye to the beans and peas, then brassica to other brassica side. Are you saying to add additional Brassica seed in this step also? Thanks.

Thank you for this video. I've tilled, drilled, and disc for 20 years. Weeds, weeds and more weeds! I fertilize, lime, and spray each year according to my soil samples. I want to try this NO-TiLL method. I am going to rewatch this video and follow your recommendations. I currently have 2 acres of rye which I planted last fall. I've been planting soy beans for the last few years. I live in central WV. I would welcome any information or suggestions you might offer.

This was unbelievably helpful.

Will be trying this on my about 3/4 acre plot this year if I can find the buckwheat? All I have is a garden tractor so👍🏻 spread winter rye last fall over my oats and was pretty darn happy with it for the poor quality soil I have! Stayed green all winter in north central Ohio! Thanks!

Getting excited about starting our food plots this year. We will follow your method as we did last year, just reverse the brassica and peas, beans. Did not catch the amount of fertilizer you recommended for the pears and brassicas. Keep up the good work, call when you can plan a short visit.

Jeff great information. I do not have the money for expenses equipment but did buy a tank sprayer, hand spreader and packer max. I have no choice but to do this no till method and that’s ok / perfect for me. We will for now do a Buckwheat/ Rye rotation. For this type of method Please do a comprehensive video on how you handle lime, fertilizer part of the equation.

Hi Jeff. Thanks for all the great advice. This is my first year trying a food plot. I've been trying to find a small tractor but now I'm going with this method. I'm only doing 5000 sf so I can do most of this by hand. In my area of South Jersey a lot of guys use turnips for the fall planting. Any thoughts on that?

gonna try this out for sure this year!

Thanks for all the great info. One quick question, 2 quarts per acre of glyphosate, how much water do you mix it with?

Great information, I am planning to use your techniques for my plots this summer, my plantings last year were in two squares at the end of a converted ag field. Having just purchased the property last spring I did not have much information to go on. The layout of the forty is proving difficult to hunt! But after watching everything you are sharing I feel there is hope. Thank you! I am wondering not being familiar with buckwheat, do the deer browse on it or do they avoid it in the summer months? I know our bees will be happy! PS water tank advice has already been taken and implemented.

Thanks Jeff! Could you talk about fall mix species you would pick if in a 500-1000 acre camp in 40k similar habitat. Comparable to the big woods public you talk about. What if you were trying to have the most attractive yet can produce enough for heavy graze. We are half dozen plots in your system now. Last fall was first planted into rolled and sprayed summer growth. We are now prepping for August planting and brassica and clover and grains?

You mentioned spraying in mid May and then planting the Buckwheat June 1st. If you spray in mid May do you spray again when you spread the Buckwheat seed? Thanks for all the great information, I love the knowledge you share with everyone. Greatly appreciated.

Great information as I am going to try this for the first time. Two quick things. Deer creeks website said to plant buckwheat at 1/2 to 1 inch deep. Does it really work that we'll just broadcasting and not covering with any soil? And with this system and proper fertilization can you go brassicas year after year? Splitting my half acre plot last year like you did couldn't handle the pressure. Awesome video!

I’ve got some pee seed so far but LORD willing I’ll get my plot in soon Amen 🙏

Hey Jeff quick question first time food plot planter .. what would you suggest for eastern NY catskill area for fall planting seed wise .. property is rolling hills with some open areas . Will throw some buckwheat in but what else would you recommend. No AG around by the way keep up the great vids god bless.

Thanks, Jeff. Taking copious notes to implement on several plots.

Hi Jeff, Can you use the soil builder seed from Northwoods Whitetails instead of just buckwheat as a cover crop before fall planting?Thanks for the great videos!

Hey Jeff, I planted clover and turnips this year (not purple top, it’s designed specifically for browse it’s actually a cattle graze plant) just wondering is it possible to broadcast beans or something for the fall into that? Or could I just broadcast more of my clover and turnips later on top of the existing plants? First year doing plots. The rest of the farm is planted in wheat this year and we have cattle pasture as well

Jeff, I have been planning to use this method to plant my food plots this summer/fall in western KY. When talking over my plan with my father-in-law who owns the land, he brought up why I am using this method when he has a tractor and no-till drill sitting in the barn. I understand this method you have developed is to be used with minimal equipment, but since I have access to it, would it be a waste not to use it? Would the process be the same if I was to use the drill instead? Thanks for all the awesome info!

Fantastic video as always Jeff. Nobody in the business makes things easier to understand than you. I am ordering from John today buckwheat to change up how I am doing my no till. You have me intrigued on something though that you mentioned. You said that you did this for your yard up in the UP? My wife mows about an acre around our house for our yard and I would like to make the grass better. Do you do this same exact process but plant grass seed into the buckwheat at some point?

Thank you for all the specific information! Your videos help me tremendously.

Great info, regarding the Earthway spreader what setting do you use for buckwheat?

jeff i have a 200yard by 10' strip plot in the process of creating, going to use your system definitely. you think clover plot or should i go beans and peas? its a small plot tucked into a thick small beech and maple stand with good side cover, catskills NY. thank you

Jeff, what do you recommend for someone trying to do this in SE Oklahoma? It is already getting warm here and seems to stay warm into the deer season. Would it be bad to sow the buckwheat now and use a roller in September?

Hello Jeff, I've been watching your videos on the no till system, I just want clarity that I'm correct on a few things. So right now i have a 2 acre stand of buckwheat that i put in around June 15. (I'm in northern West Virginia ) I'm wanting to plant winter cereal rye into it here in mid August ( I think this would be the right time ?) Can I mix in some brassicas with the rye or should I split the plot 1 to 1 acre? After i seed into the standing buckwheat and mash it down with my cultipacker I then need to spray w 2qt per acre glyphosate AND 2-4D? Or just glyphosate only. Will the rye and brassicas grow when using the 2-4D or should I only go w the glyphosate? Then in the spring I do the same thing by seeding buckwheat into the rye followed up w the spray recipe, correct? I also wanted to check real quick about seeding rye on freshly made logging roads with a good bit of canopy shade (it was select cut) will the lack of sun light hinder the rye or would that be a good choice? Thanks for all the info sir, keep them videos coming!

Interesting method and would like to try this next season on virgin ground. But what about liming and fertilizer. I been doing food plots in traditional ways with Disking and tilling ground while Lime and fertilizer is incorporated into the soil. Do you just leave all that on the top of the ground and if so. When would you do it. Obviously lime early But when would you fertilize and what type of fertilizer would you recommend for Buckwheat. Would you add additional fertilizer for fall planting prior to crushing and spraying. Obviously that would depend on what your planting for the fall since fertilizer would be different for clover than for brassica's or rye/wheat/oats. I have had problems with erosion and most of my land is sloped. So I am interested in this method

I have a standing crop of winter rye from last year and was wondering if broadcasting buckwheat into the standing rye might be a good option come June 1st?

Jeff, great vid. Being in central/southern Illinois, would you guess I’m two weeks ahead on everything?

Jeff, If your spraying the buckwheat with glyphosate is it necessary to use a roller like the one your using? Could you just use a lawn roller since your spraying it anyhow?

If I have an existing clover plot I want to implement this process on can I just skip the buckwheat and spray 2-3 times before planting brassicas and rye this fall? Then next year start up the buckwheat?

If you have a lot of does would you still plant the buckwheat in June? Or would you delay the planting. Keep up the awesome vids.

I’ve planted a summer blend here in Central VA: sunflower, sun hemp, soy beans. Lots of weeds popping up and lots of clover still around from last fall. If I wanted to plant a fall crop, could you spell out a 1,2,3 for me, sir? Broadcast, crimp, then spray? Wouldn’t the spray kill the seed? Thank you for your time in advance-this is fantastic content and exactly the method I want to have working on my property.

Jeff this is Jarrett. I’m in Northern Illinois! We are trying your method this year and we sprayed like you said on areas that have never had a food plot. The areas are thick with weeds and I didn’t catch the part that we may have to till the first year to get to bare dirt for the buckwheat. I’m understanding that right that you do have to till? Is there another way ? Thanks!

Will the buckwheat waste be gone by the following growing season? Will it eventually compile up till you can’t plant anything without tilling? I like this idea a lot, thanks Jeff.

Hey Jeff, have you tried bush hogging the buckwheat after you have broadcast the fall seed? Why would that not work? If the buckwheat does start to come back a bit it will die off completely at first frost while your rye and brassicas will continue to grow. I am in western NY.

Jeff, I have been hitting your videos hard these last few weeks. Thank you! As I stated in a recent comment on another video, I am lucky enough to have just purchased a 20 acre near Mankato. We close March 19th 2021 and take possession that day. I want to to hit the ground running. My question is this. Do your books cover a step by step order of operations for planting small food plots? I have a 4 wheeler, 3 nozzle 25 gallon sprayer. And am going to buy a packer Max. I assume I need to weed with 2,4d may June July. Then plan to plant buckwheat, lay it down in the fall and do tillage radish for my first year. Just really need the step by step help, and hoping the books cover that in detail. Thanks for all you do!! Tony

In your previous no till video from 10 months ago, you suggested seeding the buckwheat into standing rye and then spraying. In this video you suggest spraying two weeks before seeding buckwheat. We are going to use your method for this first time this year and just want to make sure I get it right and understand...can you help clarify this for me? Thanks and great job - you are changing the game for many people

Is June 1st still a good date to plant buckwheat if I only plan on planting winter rye and winter wheat as my fall plot? My food plots are not big enough to handle brassicas, peas, and beans.

How do you keep birds, especially turkeys from eating the buckwheat seeds before they germinate? Thank you for all the great content that you give us!

Morning Jeff; last year was my first attempt at the no till system. Some things went well; others not so well. I should have used buckwheat last year but I did not. I'm assuming you are still spreading fertilizer prior to broadcasting your seed? My hope is to cut down on fertilizer the more the soil is improved. My plan is to plant the buckwheat as you have shown followed by broadcasting brassicas late July. Then I would like to broadcast wheat around the end of August into the brassicas. Any suggestions? WI

Hey Jeff maybe you covered this but I was wondering about soil fertilizer recommendations. Plan on using buckwheat for the cover crop, but have my soil analysis for my intended fall crops. Do I fertilize before the buckwheat or forgo that and fertilize at the same time I broadcast into the standing buckwheat? Thanks

Hey Jeff was wondering if the buckwheat no till rotation would work for planting switchgrass screening?

How would you amend the soil with this method of planting? When would you fertilize/add lime?

Can you use like a common yard roller if you can't get a cultipacker?

I’ve just sprayed my plots and wanna try this method. Can I plant clover mixed with barasica after the 7 weeks. I normally just seed clover straight in but I wanna build my soil up. Thx

I have a small honeyhole (less than an acre) so instead of using a clutipacker (since I don't own one) AFTER I broadcast my soybean, clover, and winter peas OR buckforage oats couldn't I just mow down the buckwheat, which will provide instant cover for my new seeds and a quicker breakdown of the buckwheat?

Hey Jeff I'm in Massachusetts. Looking to plant a 1/10 acre hunting plot just did a soil test whitetail institute waiting for results. I've already put down 120# of lime told them I was gonna grow oats and clover but instead, I think I'm gonna do a late august rye grain planting. But the area doesn't get full sun just filtered. Is there a clover species I could mix with it? Thanx. Love your vids.

Ha. Vs down here in MS.. we didn’t have a killing frost last this January. 😳. Totally different world for sure

Thanks for all the great advice. It sounds like at 2 minutes you say '10 days later, till'.... I thought there was no till? Also, it'd be great if you came back and videoed throughout the whole year, the same plot.

Hi Jeff, love your videos and have many questions, but I'll start with this, i don't have an atv or a cultipacker, what can I use to knock down the buckwheat, weed wacker? Thanx Jim

Jeff, if I already have the equipment, tiller, etc would you say to till every year? What is your recommendation on that? Thank you! I am still trying to get in touch with you to get you out. I sent an email a couple times, but haven’t received a reply. Thank you for the information! I am trying to follow your food plot information for the last couple of years. I somehow missed the Urea on the Brassica. Do you also use Urea on the Beans/Pea side? Thank you!

Another question from a complete novice. You talk about glyphosate at 2 quarts per acre. When I look on line I see many blends of Roundup for lawns, for gardens, to kill ivy, etc. Which product is the right one?

Hey Jeff, with this process, how do you apply lime? Can pelletized lime be spread on the surface without following up w/ tillage?

When are you soil testing and adding necessary fertilizer and/or lime?

seed coverage is always stated in lbs. / acre. How does that correlate to my push broadcast seeder or your handheld? thanks.

Does the brown buckwheat thatch break down into the soil so that it is gone by the time you start the process over the following Spring?

I intend to plant buckwheat in sand hills of north Louisiana. I already have a three point hitch no-till drill. I'm thinking of drilling buckwheat, then spraying the rye and rape immediately after. I'm thinking the winter vegetation may be too thick to let buckwheat hit soil. What would you advise?

Could you please do a video for those of us who have followed you diligently and had a buckwheat crop failure? I started with bare dirt and it's now July and I have mainly weeds.

So do you plant half the buckwheat June 1st and the other half later beings your rye and everything else on the other half is going in around labor day? Or are you just letting that half of buckwheat grow longer?

Hey Jeff I done the No till an I guess that I’m one of those people that the deer have eaten to the ground might be 4 inches high but half of the plot I have smart weed I think it’s from whitetail institute food plot seed myself never had it until I used it once an it’s a pain getting rid of how do I salvage this food plot do I just spray it with glyphosate an just start over with my annual in the 3 weeks can I get ur feed back soon Jeff I’m in a pickle like all ur videos thx

I’m going to try this this season. Where do you get your buckwheat?

I cant wate to us this year. I have a question. I'm going to plant the buckwheat. Do you know when to plant beans and peas in TN?

Can you plant Clover and chicory in the same way that the peas and beans were planted in this video?

I only have a total of 8 acres is food plots worth it with this small of land. And if so what percentage would you plant

Thanks Jeff for this great video! I watched this one and the whiteboard tutorial. I’m new to hunting and property management but am fired up to learn. I’m in SW WI also (Sauk Co) and am putting this system in a level .75 acre plot. It was nearly all weeds before I started (goldenrod, hairy sunflower, smooth brome). I mowed the weeds down yesterday (DR brush mower), and want to just broadcast the buckwheat now as opposed to spraying herbicide and waiting since I got this late start. I have quite a bit of the area where I can see exposed dirt-the weeds were not super thick. Will this work? Planning on following the rest of the system to a T. Thanks again.

i dont have the money to buy a culipacker. could i use a drag instead and drag in the brassicas or clover into the standing buckwheat?

Can this be done without crushing over the buckwheat? just spraying with glyco and seed over top of the buckwheat?

I'm going to try it! Have you ever planted Sorghum using your method?

If you have a couple acreage that you want to make into a food plot with a no till design. Whats the steps . What do you spray to kill the weeds

The only thing Im asking about is the 2 QUARTS of roundup to the acre. I have one plot that requires a disking early on to dry it out. It's in a swamp. The other plots are on hill sides so no disking there. Naked oats work good for us in the south.

How long does it take to build your soil up with this method. Thank you

Hey Jeff, have you ever had any luck, weed eating the standing buckwheat, or does it need to be crushed?

Hi Jeff. What kind of nozzles do you use on your boom?

Thanks again Jeff these videos are awesome. I do have a no till drill. My question to you is it OK to use this method with no till drill. Putting the seeds into the buckwheat with a no till drill and then spraying with round up afterwards. Thank you again for these videos they’ve helped me out tremendously.

How well does this work with olanting clover in the fall

I am able to access my plot with a zero turn. (This is what your talking about at the 10 min mark). Could you seed over the top of the plot, then mow with a zero turn, seed again, and then kill it with glyphosate? The mowing should expose the stalk of the weeds and existing plot close to the ground and kill it very effectively. My only fear would be mowing would blow some of the seed away but that’s why I would seed again after mowing!! Any thoughts?

Awesome!......Post seeding: Can a guy shred the buckwheat with a brush hog or perhaps weed whacker in tiny plots or will that not terminate it?

Will gyl kill clover? Do I need to kill the plot this summer to plant buckwheat?

i'm confused on perennials like clover. when you go in the spring with such perennial, how to you keep from killing it by using 2-4-d and roundup?

Thank you for all the great information! My question is do you use urea for your Buckwheat? I'm just not getting the height that you are in your videos ! Looking forward to hearing back from you!

Can’t wait to use this method, any particular place to get buckwheat? Thanks for everything Jeff, 92k subscribers!!!