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Great! Nice work!

Yeah cedars are good to have probably not a monoculture but here in Missouri alot of people and foresters are eliminating them dumbasses in my opinion you want diversity.

Thanks! -Daniel

Thanks!

You and me both!

Your hard work will pay off! Keep us updated on your plots! -Daniel

Thanks Daniel! -Daniel

Eagle Seed's blend had done really well to meet our goals! All beans are in the gourd and we just finished crimping the last field this morning! Time to watch em' grow! -Daniel

Thanks Robert! We have even more information at growingdeer.com -Daniel

Thanks Micah! -Daniel

Thanks for watching and enjoy creation! - grant

Brian - There's a playlist on this channel about food plots has has some content about starting from scratch.

There's very rarely any food in cedars and they mature and shade out the bottom limbs leaving no cover. Folks in ag areas, like Iowa, like cedars because that's usually the best/only cover around. Cedars are on slopes, etc., where crops can't be planted. Deer will use any cover there - after the crops have been harvested. Native grasses would be better!

Kyle Krzewina - We have in past episodes and probably will again. Stay tuned!

If the soil is very mellow the older disk drill may work. However, it wasn't built to do no-till work. The Reed Canary Grass will likely be an issue for years because there will be a big seed base from past years. - grant

Isaac, Beans are a very weak seed. They do best when covered with the soil. Many NRCS offices have no till drills to rent for only a couple dollars an acre. Then once the beans reach 4-6 inches and the cereal grain is in the dough stage, you can simply terminated it with a crimper. When it's time to plant fall plots, you can broadcast into the standing beans and begin the rotation again next spring. By keeping the soil covered and limited disturbance (tractor tires and drill), you can build healthy soil, conserve soil moisture, and reduce costs ( herbicide, fertilizer, time, fuel, breakdowns etc). This process, which we call the Buffalo System, takes several years before it is up and running. For example, we have not used any commercial fertilizer for the past 5 years and all our soil samples are nutrient rich! You can find many more food plot and soil build videos at GrowingDeer.com. -Daniel

Jon Wagner - I've been planting blends for decades and haven't had any issues with soil depth. Big seeds like sunflowers and beans will do fine from 1/2" to an 1" deep. I try to plant a bit deeper if the soil is dry and shallower if there's plenty of soil moisture. If seeds are covered and there's soil moisture they will germinate.

Thank you.

True; fresh cedar needles poison the soil for anything but cedars, its part of how they ensure only their own seeds grow below them.

RyDaddy ok thanks man now I know!:)

True and false....it's not any good with cedar trees on it. Once removed, the soil will likely be poor but very likely it can be rehabilitated. You'd be surprised how many native species will come back on their own after cedar trees are killed out.

Brent thanks I might just have to do that

I have cedars come up in my ag crop fields so they will grow on good soil. Old growth cedars just really zap soil health so it takes it a while to bounce back.

Clay and I tried to get on coyotes this winter/spring but they always gave us the slip. We may try hunting some this summer! -Daniel

Very neat! Do you use this system? Thanks for sharing! Keeping the soil covered is very important and beneficial. -Daniel

GrowingDeer.tv yes I do. Aside from having healthy soil with little work, I feel it takes the extreme weather (too much/too little rain) out of the equation bc the wood chips/mulch are perfectly suited to hold and disperse moisture at the rate needed to keep plants alive.

Cool! Sounds like a neat system! It's amazing how much "mulch" layers help with water -Daniel

Mike - Burning is the best tool to establish/maintain quality native vegetation and cover. Burning is necessary to keep the vegetation in an early succession/early maturation stage.

Fred4 Outdoors - Yes we had several trapping videos. Check out the past episodes!

Probably for pollinators and diversity. Deer love sunflowers and so do bees.

It is! Sunflowers are a great forage for deer, add lots of biomass to the soil, and pull different minerals! -Daniel

Mike - We have several episodes where we share our techniques of using hand tools to establish food plot crops.

They should do great! We will see :) -Daniel

Walter - Are you certain you are sober?

It's the "traditional" farming practice. No-till farming has been in practice for a LONG time. I personally know farmers that were no-tilling in the 1970's. As agronomist have learned new methods, farmers have adapted. Many large scale ag operations now no-till...however not all have adapted to these improved methods. It's a bit sad as no-till and now the use of cover crops is much better for the environment and for wildlife. If you ever get out to Kansas or areas of large ag - you can actually see the difference between the fields of the farmers that are using no-till and those that are disced/plowed/tilled. I distinctly recall being in Kansas on a day in high wind near two fields. One was a no-till the other had been tilled. The wind was blowing off "dust" or soil from the tilled field. If you remember your history - the "dust bowl" of the early 20th century (1930's) was created by wind erosion and ruined previously fertile farming land. - Tracy for the GrowingDeer team

www.growingdeer.tv/2018/05/18/why-the-buffalo-food-plot-system/

Yep, I'm a farmer in KS, I've been in a similar no-till only system now since 2012. My neighbor is a big operator farming thousands of acres still in heavy tillage. When we get a lot of rain like recently, the water coming off his fields isn't water, it's mud. Water coming out of my fields with cover crops and no-till is clean and clear. His fields give off a ton of dust when it's dry and they are working and planting, mine might give off pollen from a cover crop. I've not gotten into the roller crimping yet, I still use herbicide but it's a vast improvement over the old way we used to farm, plus when I get livestock I can graze it right across my cover crops.