deadeye
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My father along with his two brothers purchased 50 acres in the Wapsi river bottoms. It is very low. It floods when the river floods. There are some higher spots that others but only +/- 10 feet at the most. No existing fields. It just got logged this winter. My uncle works for a guy who has a dozer that will bring it in to clear a small area for a food plot. We have acorns available but they have not been producing very well the last 5 years or so. We have problems holding deer all year. It is thick enough, but without a source of food they leave. The rut brings them through - mainly bucks looking for does. Turkeys are around in the spring, but leave during the winter also - which doesn't really bother me. I want whitetails to be around during late muzzleloader season.
So now that you have a little background I am asking advice. This food plot that will get put in will be small. Maybe an acre or two. We would be on a pretty small budget also. What would you recommend putting in or is it even worth it. Dad is thinking winter wheat. He thinks it will be a good spot for turkeys to strut as well as some food - I must agree.
I question if it will not work out well - being all the deer eating it down to nothing. Also is it too small. Wrong type of land - mainly elevation with flooding. Soil is fairly sandy in spots. I wonder also if it won't bring deer into ours, but help the neighbors out also when they would come and go from ours.
Don't know much about food plots since we don't farm and don't really have enough land to make it more valuable to learn more. But if you were to plant something what would it be and why?
THANKS
So now that you have a little background I am asking advice. This food plot that will get put in will be small. Maybe an acre or two. We would be on a pretty small budget also. What would you recommend putting in or is it even worth it. Dad is thinking winter wheat. He thinks it will be a good spot for turkeys to strut as well as some food - I must agree.
I question if it will not work out well - being all the deer eating it down to nothing. Also is it too small. Wrong type of land - mainly elevation with flooding. Soil is fairly sandy in spots. I wonder also if it won't bring deer into ours, but help the neighbors out also when they would come and go from ours.
Don't know much about food plots since we don't farm and don't really have enough land to make it more valuable to learn more. But if you were to plant something what would it be and why?
THANKS