How to plant a alfalfa food plot for whitetail deer hunting.  

Thanks for sharing your experience as well! Thanks for watching!

I have not used any cover crops when planting a pure alfalfa stand in the fall before. Thanks for watching

Scott, yah probably not the best choice for someone who lives a long ways to to the hunting farm….glad your enjoying the video! Thanks for watching

Hahahah it’s pretty management intensive, but It’s a plot I like to use. Thanks for watching!

@diyfoodplotpro What I am going to do is take this entire growing season and the winter to get the soil amended for an Alfafa planting next spring. As well as write down the management steps and steps that need to go on a calendar. Then next year I will be prepared to manage Alafafa. I'm going to plant 1 1/2 acres of Alfafa divided up by switch, leading to my 2 acres of beans divided by switch, leading to my 2 acres of beans and corn mix.

Sounds like an awesome combination!!! Good luck with the plots, enjoy the journey!

I think you will be golden with that duo! Great summer food and great fall/winter food! Sounds like your gonna have some fantastic hunting!

I like a pure stand, I plant it in mid august here, they will hit it that fall, but the following spring is when it really goes crazy. They will hammer alfalfa stating early spring all the way untill early fall, until it basically stops growing for the year….management intensive, and expensive but boy it’s a darn good plot in our neck of the woods.

@@DIYfoodplotpro I have found that Annuals work almost as well and are better at suppression of weed growth Mares tail always takes over the Alfalfa here in fall even though it is maintained, Mares tail and butter cup are the Enemies of Alfalfa here. The best way to control them is a rotation of annuals that strangle them out, Alfalfa is very subseptible to 24d but with annuals you can use 24D to kill Mares tail and Butter cup seeds before planting.

In our area they flocked to it as soon as it started coming up. It’s amazing how many deer that plot will pull to the area. As far as a early spring, summer, and fall food source it’s as good as they come. But we don’t have hardly any around here, very few acres are planted in alfalfa for food plots of hay production

Yeah I understand I mispronounced it….at that time I had just started on RU-vid and messed up and I wasn’t good at editing back then. Thanks for watching! Glad to have you onboard!

Hey Bob, thanks for watching really appreciate it. Alfalfa can be really tough to grow if soil conditions aren’t correct. You just have to be 100% pro active on your fertilizer needs and the major one is the Ph needs….soil ph has to be right at 7…and the other major thing with alfalfa is it needs to be on soils that drain…it doesn’t tolerate soils that don’t drain. To be 100% honest with you, I don’t know the answer to your question and I’m not going to lie about…I’ve never been in that situation that you are in. I’ve always seeded my pure stands of alfalfa in the late summer. From what I’ve read auto toxicity takes a while to build up in the soil. What percentage of alfalfa did your mix have?

Honestly I am not sure, and I’m not gonna lie to just give you an answer. However I believe they make more cold tolerant varieties. I will try to find you an answer! Thanks for watching!

Alfalfa is extremely particular to low amounts of p and k. I’ve never done a side by side comparison with deer gro vs bagged fertilizer but as expensive as alfalfa cost to produce I probably would go with bagged fertilizer. Thanks for watching

They will start hitting it early next spring at green up. They Don’t hit it much this time of the year when it’s getting established.