Food Plots Archives - National Deer Association

Food Plot Sticker Shock: How to Deal With Rising Herbicide and Fertilizer Costs

April 27, 2022

Given the continued impacts of the pandemic, April snowstorms and foreign wars, spring food plot season is a welcomed return to a little normalcy. My family and I are getting equipment ready, planning what we’ll plant where, and buying supplies. Everything was going well until that last item. We purchased corn and soybeans through NDA’s …

Planting American Jointvetch for Deer

March 16, 2022

| By Mark Turner

Don’t overlook this browse-tolerant, easy-to-plant summer forage just because its name isn’t “soybeans.” Annual warm-season food plots are commonly recommended to address nutritional limitations when bucks are growing antlers and does are lactating. Warm-season plantings also provide forage during the late-summer stress period in the South prior to cool-season forages becoming available. Additionally, warm-season plots …

Ladino Clover for Deer | A Step-by-Step Guide

March 15, 2022

| By Bob Westerfield

This article was updated on March 15, 2022 Few things are more attractive in the deer food plot world than a solid stand of ladino clover, particularly when it is still there after the third or fourth year. Ladino clover is a cool-season perennial legume that spreads by stolons. In the proper growing environment, ladino …

Frost Seeding Clover and Other Food Plot Species: When and How

March 1, 2022

| By Kip Adams

This article was updated 3/1/2022 If you live in an area where the surface layer of soil freezes during winter, you can save fuel and equipment costs by frost seeding a portion of your clover food plots. Frost seeding involves spreading seed on frozen ground and allowing the freeze-thaw-freeze-thaw cycle that occurs as spring approaches …

Your Food Plots are Dying for You to Learn the Other 2 Types of Weed Control

February 2, 2022

| By Ryan Basinger

For the diehard food-plotter, it doesn’t get much worse than pouring time and resources into the perfect deer food plot only to see your hopes and dreams overtaken by undesirable weeds. Unfortunately this has been going on for quite some time. In fact, Genesis 3:17-18 states after Adam had eaten the forbidden fruit that “cursed …

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