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We appreciate you Vincent!

Thanks Shannon...great feedback! That oat cover crop can be a huge help too!

Nice Fred that sounds great!

New growth makes more apples,plus you can prune the trees so they can reach the browse. Just saying for a friend...lol

#1thing control weeds first.

Before seed heads get mature.

Mowing works very well too!

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Going to mix the clover with oats next planting.

That's a really tough one....so many choices and so many variables it would be impossible to offer any suggestions that reflect any form of accuracy 😊

I plant crimson in early to mid Aug

Clover/chicory represents 2/3 of our food plots. We rotate 1/3 with spring/summer kill & ph adj with lime and/or calcium plus gly. June buckwheat. Aug Brassica. Late September winter wheat/rye. Follow with Frost seed clover/chicory the following March. The brassica bulbs break up the soil. The grains become a cover crop for frost-seeded clover which is easily eliminated late May early June. Side note: we switched to 4.5 oz /acre imox to manage clover. Very happy and it even knocked out out PA Smartweed (timing is everything with that nasty stuff).. keep an eye out in your clover beginning mid May. Hit it early. We will often spot spray imox 2nd time but it does the job. Great stuff Jeff! 8 new straps of switch added this year to soften edges and break up some larger fields.

I was about to ask the very same question. Looking forward to a reply.

It can during the first Spring of a Fall seeded clover field.... especially when not enough seed was used during the Fall. At appropriate seeding rates the frost seeding is not necessary...

Good morning! I can’t remember if it was a newer video or an older video I was watching, sounds like you don’t want food where Don’t have a stand.. hence no food on the trail. Cutting trees back along their line of movement, will provide fresh woody brows and tips for them to eat.. 😊

Hi Michael! I would go purely by a soil test recommendation. For example clover doesn't need that first # (nitrogen) in the mix.

Hi Nikki, you always want to complete a soil test, but Plot Start will help immediately!

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thank you!! Absolutely plan to before planting to see where it is at. Appreciate all the videos and Kevan is awesome!

Hi J you can...but I would wait until closer to your last frost date, broadcast and then kill the rye with Glyphosate

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 no Ag here its sandy soil mostly swamp with high ridges running north / south...

I believe he said 50 pounds per acre.

BFT is a great legume to add to your legume blend. Much more tolerant of poor soil than alfalfa and not nearly as twitchy, browse/insects etc as alfalfa.

I would use Clethodim for sure...no Gly then 😊

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You used 48#s extra....just wasting seed.

I just bought white clover from my local elevator. That's what they recommend. I'm in northwest MN

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You certainly can at the end of the buckwheat plot when you terminate the buckwheat and kill it. Established a great stand of clover with brassica like that in 2007 😊

If I broadcast my clover into the buckwheat, can I use just clover, and if so, at what rate? Or, should I mix it with brassica?

@@johannososkalo669 you can broadcast them beside each other but not together because they compete against each other. Rate should be what your seed provider recommends.

Can buckwheat be mowed instead of crimped?

I just bought some cost me 700$ for 20 acres worth. I’m planning on hitting it after the third trifoliate so eliminate any last weeds or Aspen coming up in my plot.

In mid- Ohio we broadcast 150#/acre into established legume blend plots and it does marvelous. We broadcast and then cut he legumes with a brushhog to about 6". Greg - add a comment to a video on my channel - Jeff, rightly so, doesn't allow links in his channel comments. Wanted to show you evidence of the rye growing thru the legumes very well.

That's what Jeff says. I, however, do it every year and it grows enough to be a positive thing. Maybe it's only because my clover is thinnish on my sandy soils. Rye is fairly cheap and if you have weak areas you at least have something there.

And to be fair I'm talking about a small field..hardly a budget buster.

I like my own perennial mix I developed 😊 www.whswildlifeblends.com/store/perennial-plot-power

The smallest setting first. Better to make multiple passes rather than get halfway and run out of seed.

Thanks Beau! Roughly 1 to 1.25...best to start on the small size tho

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thank you as always for your help.

In very small quantities it's ok...especially when surrounded by 100s of acres of alfalfa 😊 we will have 17 acres this year...around an acre of clover. Works great under these conditions as it doesn't establish a Summer doe herd. In a northern big woods setting it would be bad...or if a high % of our overall plots. Bottom line tho if we see piles of does hitting the clover we will kill it...but based on experience we won't have too.

I definitely never work or recommend to work clover into the ground. Just broadcast...

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thank you

You can combine...1 pint per acre of 2-4D and 2 quarts per acre of Gly. Works great!

Thanks!

I've only worked in 26....several? TX, FL, LA, SC are a few I haven't worked in ..

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Oh, I thought you said 46. I was thinking Hawaii and Alaska... what could be the other two? (The man gets around, for sure!)

Haha...great job 😁

Never ever spray "ounces per gallon"...that's for farmers and highly calibrated spray RS...not food plotters. But, been spraying 1 ounce pet acre of Gly on clover for over 20 years now, also dozens of clients. It works...as long as not before a Summer drought.

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks for the reply Jeff. So, I guess I had it mixed a little too stout maybe. As the old farmers would say. 😂

Once ounce per acre?

@@alanwhite4839 That may work ok. I'm just a little gun shy of trying it again right now. I will say I did probably have it mixed to strong. I wasn't spraying any where close to an acre. It was maybe a quarter acre and I didnt spray all of that. My bad, as they say.

@@luvbgrass I’m just saying 1 ounce per acre is very weak and I doubt it will kill anything. I think that may be a misprint?

Great lowland perennial I first planted nearly 25 years ago...good stuff!

Yes, about 10-15% of the time. Mostly big ag areas with low to moderate deer numbers. If Jake and canola makes up the brassica mix that magnifies the problem. Also if there is no other food source alongside to establish a pattern of use early in the season.

Yes...as long as it gets several hours of sunlight per day 👍

Our snow just left the woods 3 weeks ago. ..and this video was out out 6 weeks ago. You are a little late to the party, son. The idea isn't to plant clover for the summer right now...it is for the hunting season. If you plant now you use oats as a cover plot and mow in July sometime. Then enjoy clover for the Fall. Nov would be a silly time to plant clover. On snow. Instead, the best would be planting clover in August with brassica...or with cereal grains a month later. Stay on the channel, watch a few vids, learn and then come back to the comment section when you are more accurately informed and can offer quality comments or questions to help folks. Well I guess you just did...but not how you think 😉

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 more informed okay I planted oats to harvest 2 months ago read comment they are heading out and about ready to bale your just past frost date maybe I have had tomatoes in ground a month your vidios are for northern climate only. Tomorrow will be mid 90s not your 60s

Have someone take notes for you 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's the weakest herbicide you can use ..I'm with you! Atrazine, Clethodim, Quincloric, Resicore, 2-4D...MUCH stronger and stays in the soil to keep killing for up to 11 months. Roundup dies when it hits the soil. So I agree 😉 I think everyone should use stronger chemicals than Round up, which is all of them...

Typical lib