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My family is keeping me pretty grounded with these projects but a couple small bedroom sized cuts on strategic sites will be done. If SG is 7 to 8 foot tall wouldn’t deer have issues seeing down into plots? I like the idea of miscanthus planting, any recommendations for where to buy other than...

Thanks! Daylight movement was somewhat limited this year after Oct 20. We have an old highway on the open face side of field just beyond the ponds and field has no hard edge other than ponds to block view and a sloppy neighbor who controls bedding. I’ll be dropping a few trees strategically...

Thanks for the insight. After messing with this I changed it up again but same general concept, just made single larger blocks instead of two and I'll compartmentalize them with EW for now for ease of planting. Perhaps all the broken up food will allow for an additional doe group to call home...

Stand/blind locations will be on outer edges of plots with solid access leaving interior sections completely to the deer. How would you guys reccomend me attack this? I’m absolutely open to criticism if this is insane!

For reference yellow would be switch, purple are established fruit trees. Larger chunk of switch in upper pic is on knob and approximately 1.5 acre block to assist with possible knob bedding.

My big Ohio food plan was shot down by family so back to the drawing board. I have 6 acres of plantable in my main plot which I planted corn and greens in this year for year one, also put in a good 25 fruit trees and have more coming. Anyone have any luck with breaking up plots into smaller...

My farm is a high percentage of hard maple. I recall in Jim Braukers book a reference to deer liking hard maple. How would you all with maple reccomend doing cuts for bedding? Would you drop them or hinge or a combo? Also, do stump sprouts with hard maple get browsed?

Any ideas on what’s worked best in regards to your orchards? Does one big one do better than smaller strategic ones at say pinches or small kill plots? Is there a cap in your eyes for tree numbers or do you keep stacking them in? Anyone have any underground tree species that get the job done...

I hunt my farms in Southern Ohio and run a ton of cams. Love them!!! For what it’s worth, I live on the Mexico border with Arizona. We have had a trail cam ban for two years now. It’s kind of refreshing, I’d obviously run them if I could but it feels like 25 years ago before I started using...

I like those as well, im in same boat, lots of surveillance duties at work so I've always got one on. Just seeing if there's any out there I may not have discovered. I've prob listed to yours and Jake a half dozen times on putting together the new farm..

Anyone have recommendations for habitat podcasts? I feel like I know all the good ones but maybe I’m missing some….

I assume if you were to do a cut for hay you would do so in early spring?

My family 12 acre hayfield has long been late summer harvested for the neighbors cattle. Is there any benefits I could provide to cattle with switch if I were to do a spring cutting? My current plan was to plant app 3 acres of RC BR but I have a lot more ground and if there’s a livestock benefit...

Do you feel a mid June planting would work for RC if drilled?

Anyone planted RC yet and have a Rx for bedding pounds per acre on drill? After talking with MHCo. The range is 6-8, prob run 7# to play the middle. Anyone side with thinner is better?

I think that’s the plan of attack, already been in touch. Decided to add more beans and less SG in my setup. Still be over 2 acres Sg on this fieldknob and gradual decline. If they bed in SG in se Ohio this should be a perfect perch.

Wondering for those who have tried different types, what’s your best recommendation for seed type. I’m debating real world vs RC big rock for southern Ohio planting. I’ll have access to a drill. Curious for those that side by specific seed types “why” they run what the do?

When will you have it available? 6-8 lbs per acre seems like a big gap, what are you running yourself for cover purposes? If there is no SG in your area do you see it adding to potential bedding cover if it’s bordering food and woods?

The ponds will have heavy EW screen and Sg on the interior of it. Also yellow will be strip of sg/ew to compartmentalized sections of beans to break up sight lines

The black icons are proposed small bedding cuts or likely girdles I can most likely get away with