Food Plot guy’s – Help

Glenn, check your PM.

Rick

I’m already thinking of ways to improve our deer woods for next season. The one thing I think that would help us the most is to get some type of food source into the area. With it being a Potlatch lease we are rather limited with what we can do. The 2 options I’m thinking of is to plant a food plot on part of the Powerline running along the edge of our lease and or setting up a feeder in the late spring and feeding deer up to near the season opener. We have heard that they are planning on Spraying the Powerline to kill all the buck brush along the edges ( Thank god )the ? I have is does anyone know what kind of chemical do they use to do this and low long will I have to wait after to try to plant something on it. I need to find out who to contact to find out if they care if we plant a food plot on it, and if not when they plan to spray it. I know someone from here planted a food plot in a similar situation ( Powerline ) I ‘m not sure were to start. I’m not sure if potlatch would have anything to do with it or know anything about it, but it may be a place to start. We also have a small road running strait thru the middle of the lease with a small open area on each side of the road – Not sure if it would be worth a try to plant something along the edges of not. It does appear to get a fair amount of sun. I don’t know if the feeder idea is good or not. With the limited amount of food source in the area I just think if we could get food into the area it would better hold the deer in the area and may even attract even more deer into the area. I have to believe that the deer leave the area each day to feed. I think this last weekend a fair amount were shot while in the process of trying to get back onto the property after feeding. I just wish I could give them a reason not to have to leave to feed. Any thoughs or suggestions whould be much appreciated.

I can do some looking for you. Your questions here seem largely based on bureaucratic issues. This will require some calling around as every one (business) wants to put forth face (enviro friendly practices).

A few more specifics could be helpful (in regards to your plots). Such as where are you generally located at, what is general land use (economic-farming/lumber), what kind of crops are used in your area if any, how wide is the powerline swath, how wide is the road swath, was the road built up with sub soils, what orientation to the compass are each of them, do you know any other common names or scientific names for your ‘buck brush.’ I suggest google imaging, or wikipedia searching BUCKTHORN species until you find one that is as similar as possible.

With this info I can start to put together a general idea of what you are looking at for possibilities…. Shoot me a PM if you want. Pretty busy this time of year (dont know why ) But ill definitely put some time into it when I get a chance…

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I’m already thinking of ways to improve our deer woods for next season. The one thing I think that would help us the most is to get some type of food source into the area. With it being a Potlatch lease we are rather limited with what we can do. The 2 options I’m thinking of is to plant a food plot on part of the Powerline running along the edge of our lease and or setting up a feeder in the late spring and feeding deer up to near the season opener. We have heard that they are planning on Spraying the Powerline to kill all the buck brush along the edges ( Thank god )the ? I have is does anyone know what kind of chemical do they use to do this and low long will I have to wait after to try to plant something on it. I need to find out who to contact to find out if they care if we plant a food plot on it, and if not when they plan to spray it. I know someone from here planted a food plot in a similar situation ( Powerline ) I ‘m not sure were to start. I’m not sure if potlatch would have anything to do with it or know anything about it, but it may be a place to start. We also have a small road running strait thru the middle of the lease with a small open area on each side of the road – Not sure if it would be worth a try to plant something along the edges of not. It does appear to get a fair amount of sun. I don’t know if the feeder idea is good or not. With the limited amount of food source in the area I just think if we could get food into the area it would better hold the deer in the area and may even attract even more deer into the area. I have to believe that the deer leave the area each day to feed. I think this last weekend a fair amount were shot while in the process of trying to get back onto the property after feeding. I just wish I could give them a reason not to have to leave to feed. Any thoughs or suggestions whould be much appreciated.

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I believe the chemical they will be using is a brush killer. “heavy on 2-4d and round up” The round up won’t have any residual effects but the 2-4d does have some residual effects but i have had no problems if i wait for 5 days before planting.I am assuming your working with average to poor soil? so something like winter rye and brassicas planted the 1st year may be your best choice. as far as the feeders I would personally stay away from them “Just my opinion”
as far as the roads I would find a good quality white clover. Spray 2-3 times next summer with round up and then plant in september using oats as a cover crop. This plan my need tweaking to fit your soil type, early vs late season etc. but you will hold more deer on your lease with some kind of food.

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I believe the chemical they will be using is a brush killer. “heavy on 2-4d and round up” The round up won’t have any residual effects but the 2-4d does have some residual effects but i have had no problems if i wait for 5 days before planting.I am assuming your working with average to poor soil? so something like winter rye and brassicas planted the 1st year may be your best choice. as far as the feeders I would personally stay away from them “Just my opinion”
as far as the roads I would find a good quality white clover. Spray 2-3 times next summer with round up and then plant in september using oats as a cover crop. This plan my need tweaking to fit your soil type, early vs late season etc. but you will hold more deer on your lease with some kind of food.

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Just curious about your reason to stay away from the feeder idea. This is my second choice for sure but it may end being my only option. Thanks for the oyher thoughts and ideas

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I believe the chemical they will be using is a brush killer. “heavy on 2-4d and round up” The round up won’t have any residual effects but the 2-4d does have some residual effects but i have had no problems if i wait for 5 days before planting.I am assuming your working with average to poor soil? so something like winter rye and brassicas planted the 1st year may be your best choice. as far as the feeders I would personally stay away from them “Just my opinion”
as far as the roads I would find a good quality white clover. Spray 2-3 times next summer with round up and then plant in september using oats as a cover crop. This plan my need tweaking to fit your soil type, early vs late season etc. but you will hold more deer on your lease with some kind of food.

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Just curious about your reason to stay away from the feeder idea. This is my second choice for sure but it may end being my only option. Thanks for the oyher thoughts and ideas

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I really don’t Have one good reason other than My experience has been that mature bucks will very seldom frequent feeders. on the other hand you will keep alot of does on your property if thats what you want?
For instance when I used to use suplemental feed my buck to doe ratio was about 15 does per buck This makes the rut seem like it is not even happening Now that I have a ratio of about 4-5 does per buck I witness a much more agressive rut. I now see anywhere from 3-5 bucks per sit chasing does