Haha Jeff, perfect plans. As the old saying goes, man plans and God laughs. And he sure has been laughing a lot lately.

I'm noticing how some velvet bucks, at my water holes, seem to grow their racks much more rapidly toward their full summer growth than others. The others seem to grow their antlers slower and steadier. Great video. Thanks for posting Sir.

Love it Jeff!!!

Really like you’re monthly chores keep me on track on what to have done. And also Jeff loving your guys podcast

Thanks for the continual information. The information you have provided has proven to be extremely useful!

It’s definitely getting to be go time! Time to finish up the chores! It’s been a tough year for plots, going to need to be creative this fall. Food is key…

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Amen Brian!

WNY has been blessed with rain this year after last years terrible drought... good luck to everyone needing rain. Last year rye and tillage radish saved my fall plots 👍🏼

Thanks for the informational video. I am going to put in 2 water holes today. Going to put them in my small hunting plots. I know you said not to put water holes in food plots but my property is all low ground and next year I need to work on the bedding areas. Then I can move them if I need too. Thanks again for the time you spend helping us out.

I also want to say. I’m trying to implement everything you preach and I find myself telling others about it. I just started the mock scrape thing this year and I’m loving it! I

Been doing things a little different this year, mowing plots all spring, get a good kill this week and again at planting. Hope for the best. Thanks Jeff

Thanks for the great info, Jeff!

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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You are very welcome Oliver!

Good plans Jeff. Thanks for the reminders…I’m excited for the Georgia bow season. Seeing some nice bucks.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Nice...good luck down there in GA!

I mowed my rye in late spring. I plan on disking the rye field for my fall planting.

Great video Jeff, I think the drought threw a wrench into everyone’s plans this year. I do have plan B however.

excellent

I got my scrape branch and vine out this weekend. First time trying a vine. I put it on a part of my hunting plot I put a large cut cedar branch in the ground to hang it from. Its the main highway for all bucks going through here. it should get hit a lot.

I do need to get out and shoot the bow. I did get a few carp with the bow. Got some grape vines growing on the hollyhocks for some better cover at the picnic table. Some high bush blueberries came up on there own up north. The clover has did well even lacking rain. Got moss around the cherry trees. Didn't think they threw enough shade for clover u.p. north. Yes need to remove all the sticks on the trails. I am just out for meat this year. If there is a doe bullying other doe at the apple trees that's the one for me. Yes clearing some shooting lanes at the y in the trail would help me. Bushes and cover around the garden has keep the deer out. I had a deer 5 feet from me while sitting working in the garden on the other side of the rose bushes. Thought it might be eating rose hips.

Just wanted to let you know I have read all three of your books and started working on my 29 acres. Have planted buckwheat with great success. Love your content. Hope to plant my food plots early August. Plan on using fall blend and brassica blend.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Thanks a lot Tim, we really appreciate you! Excited for you!

I'm in Northwest Indiana and hunt in a Deer Reduction Zone. I missed out on last year's season because of losing almost half of my thumb due to a cable bow press snapping accident. So, I started doing my check list as soon as the season was over. Started shooting my bow as soon as it didn't hurt too bad. And shoot as much as I can. About 4-5 days a week. I got all my trails cut down, and cleaned, again last week. So, I only have to cut them once more in about a month. Mine are easy though. My hunting area is a 30 acre plot right behind my property. So, a battery powered weed eater does just about a perfect job. Pretty quiet, too. The property has plenty of diverse plants, so I don't do any planting. Not much room anyway. It's basically a corridor going East and West between bedding areas and woods towards the East and headed towards food plots to the West. The North and South sides are pretty open, so the deer prefer to go through my area. Oh, and only 2 people have permission to hunt that area. I'm retired, so I can hunt as much as I want. My buddy has a full time job, So he might get to hunt, at most, 2-3 weeks of the 4 month season. I just put a new string and cables on my bow 3 days ago, so that is all good to go too.

Just need RAIN!

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Amen to that...we need a lot of rain dances going on right now!

I like your content, Iv adhered to a lot of the things you’ve said when it comes to hunting big bucks. I’m not sure your a wildlife conservative though. The chemicals your spraying are not good for other wildlife out there not to mention the “weed killing aspect” your never going to kill the weeds by spraying them. I understand the plant the seed that’s awesome. It just seems this channel has turned into to how to drain money by buying my seed and plant spray plant. I appreciate the content non the less.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Unfortunately the only way to have real food plots is to use herbicide. Sure you can plant things that improve the soil...but they don't offer good enough crops to actually build and hunt a quality deer herd. Why plant food plots if they aren't effective? Instead, we build the best wildlife populations and deer herds...and we still do that by building the soil. Other than increasing my rotation of a buckwheat summer crop, been using the same high level soil building, herd building and wildlife building practices for 25 years. There is a reason farmers use chemicals...professional planters. And while we use fewer chemicals than they do, we also understand that to produce quality results, you can't play around.

Jeff, great video. I planted about 8 acres for the first time following your Ultimate No Till with Buckwheat this spring. Unfortunately I have some plots that are doing ok and others not so good in terms of the weeds that have somehow taken over. There is still buckwheat present but the weeds are prevalent in some plots. I was debating about my next steps. Since the weeds in some cases are over 12-18" tall, I was considering mowing everything down short, giving it a week, than doing a light till to loosen the soil, followed by spraying glyphosate after vegetation starts to grow back. After this, than planting half of each plot in brassicas and half in your power greens. Any advice is greatly appreciated. It has been a frustrating food plot season between the drought and now the weeds. Thanks Jeff

Sadly I didn’t get any spring plots in Ohio. So I’m hoping to get something in by mid August.🤞🏻The ground needs high cal lime and maybe some gypsum. I’ll get plots in both NY and Ohio then get back to frost seeding in March. I hope.

Hi Jeff! Another great video! What did you say you sprayed the switch grass with?? I planted some of yours and i wanted to keep it weed free as it’s coming along nicely..

Can you plant rye and leave until the following year and mow around September?? I am testing this out this year on a little plot we are way north MN with nothing but woods around my main food Plot the deer definitely even still from the rye that was left after my spraying the deer are still hitting that plot but not touching the other cause it's tall. Once mowed and it hits colder temps are they gonna swap to that smaller plot or do they like fresh growing??? If you don't know I'll keep you updated on my experiment because this area is hard to just get back to and work and if I only have to mow once or twice a year and have a great food Plot I'm game

Great timing. Most of my buckwheat is shin-high and relatively weed-free, but one small plot is overtaken with pigweed and canary grass. Will two weeks be enough between the 2-4d and planting if I go with the regular 2 qts gly + 1 pt 2-4d?

@alexpinnow6509

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Yes, only need about 7-10 days with 2,4-D if the proper application rate is used.

Great video Jeff, but damn that arrow came out of that bow super sideways. Go tune that bow!

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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All arrows flex 😉

50% of my egyptian wheat planting was flattened by recent severe rainfall. Its about 3 feet tall, do you think it will stand back up?

I’m wanting to put a food plot in it’ll be in woods near a creek what would be good to plant

Hey Jeff, another great video! i am using a local brassica blend that is proven! It calls for 4lbs per acre but i am using a heavy tilled radish mixture this year for the first year. Cutting this blend in half to only 2lbs per acre and adding back 7lbs per acre of Nitro Raddish will that be enough? This seed company provides seeding rates for the brassica at 4lbs per acre and the Nitro Raddish at 5lbs per acre. Didn’t seem right based on what you use.

Hey Jeff, is there a size a plot should be before you consider splitting them in half like you do with big boost brassicas and fall power greens? We have small plots. Largest is about .2 of an acre

@alexpinnow6509

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Split em all!

Jeff, what do you think of leaving Chinese privet for deer woody browse?

I purchased a 14 acre plot last year and have been working on prepping for a home etc on it. it's mainly all wooded. There are some logging roads that obtain some nice sunlight, Would that be a good area to toss in a small plot probably 150 yards by 10-15 foot wide? I have no clue of what is on the property I did see an old scrape last year when I first purchased the property. I have only been back on the hill 2 times though is my only issue.

Great video jeff!!! I'm right on par got my spraying down last week and this week really killing those weeds for a fall plots! Quick question a few spots I'd love to go throw a watering hole in real quick here at the end when i go throw my cameras out! Would a 15 gallon tank be any good or is that pretty laughable as a size and not be enough to really make a difference

@alexpinnow6509

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Probably won't be big enough with that one. You need a big enough tank to keep water from evaporating especially if your area is dry. I out in a 100gal tank 4th of July weekend and although it was miserable to fill with 5 gallon buckets it should be filled for the fall

When would you hang a mock scrape over a watering hole? Also can a more secluded watering hole be placed near a creek bottom and still be used?

@timhatfield6367

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Keep them separated. They both are a attraction.. Don't want them having it all in one spot...make them travel between the two so you can capitalize on their travel routes.

Jeff, I planted some purple top turnips, last weekend. They already germinated. Did I plant them too early?? I planted them in Northern Michigan. I tried planting corn in May and the 3 week drought. The corn never germinated. I just want to do it correctly.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Hi Jeff! You are on the early side ..but not terrible? You definitely want to plant a mix tho...not just PPT

@jefffisher5299

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I had a small package of green beans and planted a few rows next to it with corn. if that doesn't grow. I will be throwing down cereal rye around labor day weekend.

I see more Tactacams in these videos. No more Exodus?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Oh for sure...I switched to Tactacam the 1st of the year...even put a video out about it 😊 Awesome to now get full HD Vids sent to my phone! No more 2 cameras on 1 tree! kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmigsZWiosS0fqw.html

My buck wheat is not doing well as I like. I was thinking of putting down fertilizer what do you recommend to help? it's my first attempt with buckwheat. Thank you

@alexpinnow6509

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I know you can mow it which is one option but killing the plot off now tood might be a better move depending on weed density. Thinking about killing all my plots off this weekend with buckwheat really struggling to hold on for me as well

Hey Jeff I planted switch this past spring. Considering the drought conditions do you still recommend mowing that switch here in late July early August?

@timhatfield6367

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Mow if you think it's not getting enough sun...it won't hurt the switch,and switch takes a couple if not three years to make a good screen. I've mowed some of mine that was put out in February just to give it that extra sun for its August growth, which seems to explode towards the sky. I've thought about quinclorac, but I don't have any experience with it, so I'm kinda afraid to spray it. Kind of like you're concerned with mowing. Hope this helps in your situation. Pulling for you! Don't give up on it,it will work out!

@bowman8316

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Mow to keep weeds down

@markilijanic5797

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Thanks guys. First time planting switch and as I think we are all realizing not an awesome to try to plant anything. Considering the time and cost of the project I just didn’t want to make a mistake. Appreciate the feedback. So when I mow in late July that switch should hit that rapid growth phase in august right? Assuming there is some rain.

@timhatfield6367

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@markilijanic5797 yes..just have to be patient...don't get your hopes too high..the first year,second year and third year, you'll probably be shocked. I have some over 20 years old, and it gets 7'-8'. Stays up until February to March, even longer just not as tall by then. Pep talk....YOU CAN DO IT! lol Like the Cajun guy in the movie Waterboy..lol

@alexpinnow6509

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​@@markilijanic5797like everyone said, be patient especially in this drought year. The best switch I have now was planted in drought conditions in 2020, it was under 1ft that year BUT there wasn't a weed in sight. It's about 5ft tall now and the rain and heat are on the way, long term plan for sure!

I was just on the land is it bad if I kicked a buck out, I didn’t think they’d be around in the afternoon.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Hi Eric...not a bad thing at all!

I’ve got milkweed taking over my plot. Any suggestions on getting rid of that? Just round up?

@bowman8316

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Add 1 pint p/acre of 24-d... but do it Now so you can plant in Early August

What do you use to keep weeds out of clover?

@mikenimmo119

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Hey, use 2,4-DB, also known as butyrac on your clover plots.

Be careful with the chemicals. There is a reason cancer rates are skyrocketing in this country..

First

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

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Yep!

@timhatfield6367

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Kurt, if we was keeping points on first finishing like NASCAR You'd be in the running for Championship..good job! I can tell you love this stuff, like i do!

@kurtpearson2793

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Competitive spirit comes out in weird ways😂