What is your ph number??

I grow double rows of corn @ 4' approx spacing in my perennial plot

Here in Ohio, you have to treat invasive species for multiple years before touching the canopy or you will have non-native invasives that become very costly and labor intensive to control. The average person can’t control them and it requires professional help. They take over 100% without control. We cut the undesirables trees out first when controlling invasives. Once it’s prepped we wait to see what the understory does, and slowly take a few low quality trees and undesirable species from the canopy while allowing our desirable species to re-produce. Once the regen is of desirable species and density we harvest a little more aggressively. We keep the majority of our large healthy mast producing trees to continue providing forage and increasing in value. Most logging is unsustainable and leads to degraded habitat and timber quality.

On the Genesis drill what seed rate and gate opening setting did you use for planting straight corn.

I planted 3 acres of corn and its next to a 1acre of clover and 1 acre of purple top turnips and radish, with some chicory. The deer use the corn field mostly as cover/ security to now hit my food plots.. Now that its December in Northern Ny the deer are still here for the first time in many many years.. Its far easier planting corn than all of those other gimmicky screening plantings..

I live in the Northeast and I no till planted the 115 day corn. I dont care about how many bushels per acre. Yet it grew amazing . No till planting is the way to go. I spray and kill everything off and fertilize when i plant and once again after it sprouts up. A 50lb bag cost me 265.00. One bag plants roughly 3.5 acres..

The idea of mixing or adding food plot mix in the rows of corn is interesting...

I plant 3 to 4 acres of corn to provide cover and food. I leave it all winter as well. It's made a huge difference where the deer will now hit my clover plots by the woods . They wouldn't normally cross open field to get to my food plots as well. The security / cover it provides has made a huge impact.

How do you keep the weeds out

How did you plant it. I like your idea

Great looking plot. I did that with sorghum and the greens this year.

Great job

Thanks for sharing, great video

What kind of corn?

100% correct, we did a TSI and a timber sale on 30 Acres of Woods. Left tops for side cover . The opened canopy let sun light in and the regeneration is impressive. Thanks

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I have a bunch of 10-15 year old red maple and white ash bunched together. I like to hinge cut a "wall" then squirt a little round up where i cut. Makes a nice wall and its for sure dead so deer wong try to use it as a food source.

Nothing beats green snow fence. You run it tree to tree like barbed wire, and stack it 2 high. It's cheap, doesn't ruin your property like logs all over. It can be removed if you move or change your property setup. It's cheap, and it's a one day project. As you get closer to your blind you put a double layer, like fence on both sides of the trees ot post. You can still plant trees but you don't have to wait till your beard turn Grey waiting for them to grow and work.

Maby a video of entering and exiting ure land for no pressure?

You are absolutely correct, hunting pressure is key and also getting in and out without alerting the deer. Thanks, Bob SWWI

Thanks for the great info Brenon. Standing corn is obviously still going to draw the deer when 2 feet of snow is on the ground in January. What other feed/crops do you feel benefits the herd once the snow pack starts to add up for weeks at a time?

Can you share the mix of seeds you are using to inter-seed?

curious to know if the inter row planting will stunt your corn growth ? Especially a seed like a brassica which is a large plant and bulb ? I could see clover being an idea but looking to hunt over it November/December it could possibly be under snow ?

Here is my experience with corn. (Southern Indiana) We started planting corn food plots in 1988 and did so until about 2000. It will hold deer on your property late fall and winter. It will also work better than about everything else from December till spring green up, soy beans will do as well or better depending on your deer and what they are use to, but corn seems to last longer acre per acre. The down side... Racoon populations will overwhelm you without intense trapping. Those coons will be murder on your nesting Turkeys. Corn can cut your Turkey population by more than half by building up a coon population. Corn plots also seem to be utilized more after dark than any other plot, I think deer just know that it's going to be a long process to eat their fill. I confirmed that the deer liked to feed in winter wheat, at last light then move into the corn after dark with my cameras year after year. Squirrels and Crows, also learned to go down the rows after planting and pull the young shoots up and eat the corn leaving a dead plant laying out in the sun. I could loose 20% of my planted crop this way. I hunted from fixed stand locations and shooting through corn is just not possible, especially with a bow. So unlike a wheat field I could shoot through, it was not good enough to have a deer I wanted in the field within range. They had to be in a shooting lane also. SO I still use corn but for me its easier to start a feeder system that uses corn mixed with deer feed, and save the plots for other crops. ( I have corn fields in my neighbors so I am not giving them corn when they don't have the digestive gut bacteria already built up in their system. That can be an issue for deer. ) I do sometimes plant a corn plot, but for me in my climate with my deer I think other late season crops are better suited.

U got 2 mow clover plots once a month bud .. start mowing in spring thru early September

This is one of the reasons we switched to White Cloud Crimson clover, in an annual rotation.

Eastern NY the majority of fields are growing houses. Mostly grass fields left. Deer mow down the grass. Whenever I plant anything the deer just demolish it. When it grows a inch they eat two inches. Good job.

how are there no comments on this?!?! Thank you!

I don't think Poast is the same thing as Clethodim. Poast is sethoyidim and does not kill grass, only stunts it. I learned this the hard way.

I just found your site, and enjoyed your comments. We have been putting in food plots in SWWI for almost 30 years. One of our most important components in our clover plots in drawing deer is Chicory, please be aware that 2-4-DB will kill Chicory. Thanks, Bob

If u got the acres of clover I got u got to mow buddy . And yes u can mix cleth and 24db in the same tank I’m 52 years old been spraying that for 20 years

Just mowed 2 plots/sprayed 1plot/ Left one alone. 3 year old switch grass 30"tall newest frost seeded switch just sprouting. North central Indiana.

The deer love these clover food plots in Northern NY. It's amazing what works in some areas doesn't work in others..I planted the beets n greens and the deer preferred the clover. Yet 12 miles away my friend planted the beets n greens and they ate it to dirt...

You just showed a blind over a destination food source.

Good info thank you. There really is alot of potential in central NY.. Im in 7J

Where in NY are you located? Thanks

Good job. What area of NY are you in?

I never dreamed our farm could improve so much. You've done a great job.