Great info , thanks !

Good video. I'm in East Texas and doing this exact thing right now in a little strip between timber, hay meadows and a rural neighborhood. I've run into a lot of woody plants, including privet and hardwood saplings that have been brush-hogged for years, and briars, including greenbriar and wild blackberry vines. The herbicide recommendation there is Remedy. Burn it down, add lime and fertilizer as the soil test suggests, and then the suggestion on food plots, at least in this area, was a combination of iron clay peas, arrowleaf clover and winter hardy oats in early September. The peas come on quick and get the deer's attention up to frost making way for their favorite - oats - and then the clover gives a good boon with spring green-up. Good video though. Cheers.

Do you cut down trees right up to the edge of the ridge if you are carving out a food plot? Trying to find out how much buffer zone I should leave between a slope of a ridgeline and where it meets the food plot if I am creating a food plot that parallels a ridge

Yeah brassicas wont last unless fenced off on that small of a plot, could add cereal rye to fill in the bare spots to keep it attractive through winter. Love clover but usually dies off late, but having the cold hardy oats is a plus. In our area they have so much early food we dont usually do early plots, yes they are good nutrition to growing bucks and the herd but the entire area around is a huge buffet in mixed ag, we focus in on having food when they need it, when everything else around is gone.

discing will usually create a worse weed problem than you would normally have. no till with cover crop is the way to gooo

My micro plots are close to my property I use pigs. Good diggers plus fertilizer they even plant it with their feet. Bacon did I mention the Bacon lol. Good hunting guys God bless.

must be nice having heavy equip

I have plans to establish this exact Clover/Oats plot this fall. My question would be, what is a good rate to broadcast the oats to ensure the clover will still receive sunlight? The plot i'm going to be planting is roughly 0.3 acres.

Need to do the same thing in Ohio on a new property

Have you ever planted Canola and if so do you think it would come up in a open woods setting with clover? Awesome video!

What did you do with the stumps? Just cut them really low?

“Minimal effort” yet still requires extensive dozing and burning and soil prep. Helpful video, but FAR FAR from “minimal effort”. This is a colossal effort with lots of man-hours and machinery.

I'd never use round up on my land. Especially on ground that will grow food for something I plan to eat. Just leaf blow then spread the seed. Clover will crowd out weeds and grass.

Easy way to tip a tractor driving around with the bucket all the way up

Forgot to mention how you removed the stumps of the trees you cut down.

More people should understand that this is tedious work for what fire can do in an hour, and at at a fraction of the price.

Put some glycophate in the deers gut.

Just shooting you straight. Im a hinter in WA state. Big timber has sprayed acres with glyphosphate and its causing elk hoof rot disease.

bury don't burn, build soil? why release carbon in to the atmosphere?

Very little tool and there are tractor prints in the dirt. Who they fooling? Come one man...