While there are many different effective ways to get these small food plots in the ground, a tactic I used recently was to use a drag harrow behind an ATV. In the past I’ve used several methods, from a traditional disc and drag behind a small tractor, to a homemade drag from an old pallet pulled used once while I was in a pinch for time and didn’t want to hitch a disc to a tractor and haul it to the plot.
I typically keep the areas I want to use for food plots broken up as the summer goes along anyway, so the soil typically isn’t too hard to scratch enough to get some easily germinating brassica or wheat seeds into.
For this plot I used a drag harrow behind my ATV and was very impressed. First, I pulled it to the ridge I wanted to work on with the smooth side down, letting a couple bags of corn ride along.
Once I was at the piece of ground I wanted to work up, I simply turned it over so an aggressive side was down. I used this and made several passes over the ground to disturb the soil and break it up. After doing this o broadcast the seed I had by hand.
I then came back and used the smooth side to cover the seed up, dragging across it until I had some good seed to soil contact.
This drag harrow worked very well, and my Honda 350 ATV pulled it incredibly easily.