ONE SMALL FOOD PLOT??? SPRING PLANTING, THIS IS WHAT I WOULD PLANT. 

Wes...I agree, we plant RR soybeans on our plots to put nitrogen back in the soil, reduce erosion and to help keep the weeds suppressed during the summer. We don't care if they feed the deer or not, as we have plenty of Ag land adjacent doing that. We usually get really cheap beans, sometimes 2 yr old and plant them heavy. We usually plant our summer plots late as you stated. We concentrate on having a successful fall plots that we will be hunting on from mid Oct thru Dec. . We generally disc our fields up and then plant our fall plots. This has worked for us and has saved a lot of time and expense not worrying about summer plots. Just what works for us. Bob

Plant spring oats in early spring. 60lb bag less than $20 at co-op and there usually treated. Plant RR beans into oats green allowing oats to protect beans, suppress weeds and add nutrients. No fertilizer needed. Once beans are up spray. Oats will keep ground covered locking in moisture. This could all be done with a spreader and roller also. Plus it gives your deer more options for nutrients.

Have you tried Joint Vetch? All of the same benefits of soybeans since it’s a legume, but isn’t quite as attractive as soybeans so it survives browse pressure better. The keys to warm season plots is pre-emergents. I want to plant, fertilize and spray and be done. Prowl or Dual can be used with all legumes as well as sunflowers. The joint vetch is a heavy reseeder so once it goes to seed. Spray it with gly and spread your fall plot straight into it. I like cereal grains and a mix of annual clovers. That will get you through March. At that time, mow the plot, fertilize and spread joint vetch at half the rate, since you have seed from last year in the seed bank, and spray a mix of prowl and gly and your done. Joint vetch is better than other legume with partial sunlight and low ph too. It’s basically Sturgis’s method with seed adapted to the South, being that our warm season is 7 months long.

Love your soybean method... Instead of giving up, you made it work 👍☘️

I feel like this video was just for me❤️ lol thanks Wes this video was a lot of help.

You are the man! So informative! Holler when you need a drone brother

I have managed large private properties for deer, quail and turkey for 15 years. I’ve used round up ready plots to control weeds, but soy beans could not regenerate from the browsing on some of my high deer density farms. I changed my fertilizer to a heavy phosphate and planted two different plots in the Spring. Cow peas and Sedan Sungrass. I learned that when I apply heavy phosphate, “weeds” that thrive on phosphate would grow which provide a natural alternative mineral source for antler growth along with highly digestible protein.

In Texas but would like to build a couple of plots , very good content! Thanks for your efforts

I have a small property surrounded by ag land. In the fall, there is 40 acres of clover on one side and 20 acres on the other side with corn and beans as far as you can see. I don’t really see deer until they cut the corn. I need something to compete with the clover at that point

Makes sense.

I live 2 hours from my hunting property. We are doing food plots for the first time this year. Our biggest plot is 1.2 acres with an average PH of 6.1. We have 3 other small plots that I'm going to try the eagle seed buffalo blend in. Two of those plots are .2 acres and 1 is .4 acre.

Great video as always. I do have a question. Im surrounded by soybean/corn every year on my little 40 acres of timber/thicket. I have a little 1/4 acre plot of white clover. Im wanting to wait until after turkey season to plant. Would it be a better choice to plant something like buckwheat then later when i plant my fall food plant my wheat,rye,brassicas? I'm not far from you over here in Madisonville, Ky. Thanks buddy.

I want to try buckwheat this year, how would a few Iron&Clay peas do with the BW , any idea? Or would you no mix them at all? I'm going to plant cow peas in other plots on my farm, I may try Soy Beans but I currently have 5.7ph, and not sure if they will make this spring/summer because of that low Ph

When going to plant a fall blend, what would you use to terminate the RR soybeans? Or would you just plant into them?

Is the best weed mix rate you recommend is one quart glyphosate to 15 gallons water? How long do you wait before you spray? Will one overspray usually do the trick? Thanks Professor P.

I have noticed that imperial powerplant mix is aporoved to spray with Arrest max. Might that be an option for smaller plots?

What would you do differently if you had a little more space (maybe an acre) and the goal was to have soybean pods for hunting over in winter?

How do you propose to keep deer out of the plot while the soybeans get established, other than waiting until there is plenty of other food around?

small plots and soy beans don't mix well in high deer density areas. you'll have bare dirt by opening day up in the north if you're in a low AG area.

Tried this. Doesn’t work for me in small plot, my deer ran through the beans in about two weeks