Planting Food Plots For Hunting Deer

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• Learn the basics of planting a food plot

Establishing food plots on your land is not a difficult process and can usually be accomplished in a few weekends with a relatively small investment. When establishing food plots a basic understanding of the wild game food preferences and soil conditions will help make your food plots much more successful.

• Putting In Food Plots On A Budget

With petroleum costs continuing to rise, landowners are feeling the pinch in the form of more expensive fertilizer, diesel fuel and everything in between related to managing wildlife.

• Putting In Small Acerage Food Plots

Tips that owners of smaller acreages can use to help transform their property into a wildlife wonderland by planting food plots

• Get The Dirt On Food Plot Planting

Great food plots start with great soil learn how to get your soil in shape for planting a food plot

• Do your food plotting in the spring for big fall bucks

For serious deer hunters, spring signals food plot season. Successful deer hunters know that planning and preparing food plots now will likely equal big buck success in the fall.

• Forget About Baiting- Plant A Food Plot For Deer Hunting

With the popularity of deer hunting at all-time highs; restrictions on baiting getting stronger and stronger; and, with the lack of access to prime hunting land, lots of deer hunters are trying to draw deer into their areas by building food plots.

• Soil Testing For Food Plots

More hunters are adding food plots to their favorite hunting hole than ever before. Taking the time to test your soil in the spring may be the best investment you can make before putting in food plots. Soil tests can save you a lot of time, money, and headaches.

• Santa Landed In My Food Plot

'Twas the day before Christmas, and on my old hunting lease, not a creature was stirring, especially the deer. My Food Plot stood tall; all pretty and green, Biologic, Jurassic, and Iron Clay peas.

• Attracting deer to your hunting property using water sources

If your hunting area that has shown good promise all summer long suddenly stops showing deer activity and deer sighting are down, it may be that the deer are seeking a water source.

• Food Plot Basics For Deer Hunters

Planting food plots accomplishes a variety of objectives for deer hunters. It attracts deer to a given area, improves deer nutrition leading to bigger deer and antlers, and helps deer survive the winter.

• Low Budget Food Plots

Just because the economy is dragging along doesn’t mean your deer season has to. Be smart and plan ahead for effective, low cost food plots.

• Expert Tips For High Performance Food Plots

Food plots are becoming increasingly popular among deer hunters across the country. The quest for trophy deer and a desire to be stewards of the land and deer herd is the driving force. To reach maximum potential, a buck needs genetics, age, and food.

• Four Ways To Mess Up A Food Plot

Growing productive food plots isn’t difficult. But there is more to it than taking a bag of seed into the woods with you. Here are four common food plot mistakes.

• Strategic Food Plot Tips

Volumes have been written about the basics of food plotting. Get a soil test, kill all the weeds… you get the idea. But when it comes to the where and how, the answers are a bit more difficult. Here are some strategy tips for food plots.

• Why Plant A Food Plot?

There are several reasons to put in food plots. It doesn't matter if you hunt in areas with intense agriculture or dense forest. Food plots can greatly improve hunting.

• Mineral Sites For Whitetails

Food plots are great. But if you want to attract bucks, especially big bucks, mineral licks may be the way to go.

• Food Plots & Drought

Steve Scott from the Whitetail Institute of North America has worked in the food plot industry for decades and has plenty of experience in working with drought conditions. He recently visited with ForemostHunting.com to discuss what people can do to maximize their food plot efforts during a drought.

• Best Crops For Fall Food Plots

Food sources will be at a premium this fall. If you have new food plots on your property and your neighbors don’t, it won’t take much to figure out where the deer will be.