bowhuntr311
IowaWhitetail Addict
Hey all,
I have learned a great amount of knowledge about foodplots since I started hanging out on this website.
Thought I knew enough to take care of my food plots but now i have run into a dilema.
I have a friend that has a farm and has several tractors and pieces of equipment. My food plots are all about 1 acre to 3 acres in size. I have a ATV, brushhog, and peg tooth drag aswell.
These are my problems:
1. Old pasture area about 1.5 acres all sod. I was going to try to burn it, spray it when it started to green up, disc it and plant. Problem; burning ban went on 2 days ago and it will be on till it is green out, so my idea of burning it is out. Grass is long and Im worried about wasting my roundup; or spraying too early in the year. I can only disc it ONCE. I only want to borrow the tractor and disc ONCE although Im sure I could take it more than once I dont really want to.
2. I have a 2 acre chunk of clover (planted 4 springs ago.) Its starting to kill out, and I wanted a better mid-late fall feed source so I thought this year I would plant a mix of rape in that spot. How should I kill this out?
What do I do?
Disc it, let it start to green up and spray it; and then try to drag it with my pegtooth behind the atv and plant.
Or.
Do I want mow it, spray it, disc it and plant it?
I have read multiple posts on this forum and they kinda go both ways. The best way (as it looks to me) is to burn, disc, spray, disc again and plant.
Any ideas would be great.
Dean
I have learned a great amount of knowledge about foodplots since I started hanging out on this website.
Thought I knew enough to take care of my food plots but now i have run into a dilema.
I have a friend that has a farm and has several tractors and pieces of equipment. My food plots are all about 1 acre to 3 acres in size. I have a ATV, brushhog, and peg tooth drag aswell.
These are my problems:
1. Old pasture area about 1.5 acres all sod. I was going to try to burn it, spray it when it started to green up, disc it and plant. Problem; burning ban went on 2 days ago and it will be on till it is green out, so my idea of burning it is out. Grass is long and Im worried about wasting my roundup; or spraying too early in the year. I can only disc it ONCE. I only want to borrow the tractor and disc ONCE although Im sure I could take it more than once I dont really want to.
2. I have a 2 acre chunk of clover (planted 4 springs ago.) Its starting to kill out, and I wanted a better mid-late fall feed source so I thought this year I would plant a mix of rape in that spot. How should I kill this out?
What do I do?
Disc it, let it start to green up and spray it; and then try to drag it with my pegtooth behind the atv and plant.
Or.
Do I want mow it, spray it, disc it and plant it?
I have read multiple posts on this forum and they kinda go both ways. The best way (as it looks to me) is to burn, disc, spray, disc again and plant.
Any ideas would be great.
Dean