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Food Plots Dove Fields

Popcorn said:
Against my better judgement I planted a field for a farm in western KY in spring plant canola.
Turned out better than I expected,
Personally Im old school. I like milo, corn and ragweed mowed in strips but on this topic chaneylake is my idol
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They have a Roundup Ready Canola seed.
I opted out because it's not common in West Tennessee.
I could just visualize birds crapping the seeds all over West Tennessee
 
Chaneylake,
You seem to have a lot of experience with doves. I planted about 3 acres of brown top millett last year for doves. It was brown by the season opener. Bushogged some strips in it and had an ok hunt. What do you think of hitting it hard with glyphosate to kill any weeds and burning it a week or two before the opener?
 
square said:
Chaneylake,
You seem to have a lot of experience with doves. I planted about 3 acres of brown top millett last year for doves. It was brown by the season opener. Bushogged some strips in it and had an ok hunt. What do you think of hitting it hard with glyphosate to kill any weeds and burning it a week or two before the opener?
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I chemical burn down our sunflower fields every year. Whether they need it or not.
Been doing so for over 20 years
 
We do several diffevents fields a year. We do sunflowers sometime but sometimes just don't have the time at the time of the year. We have done beans and millet straight millet and wheat. Had success over all but we have the most success with sunflower and wheat. We own equipment so not an issue for us. Don't bush hog anything unless it's sunflowers. Clean ground is important. We cut hay so we will roll it and the ground will be clean. You can also spray and burn it. Haven't done it but know a few that have. With our sunflowers we make then in strips so we can have some standing and then disc strips in-between. With wheat we have a field that we had a hunt in last year we are leaving it standing all year and will cut it for hay before season. Then feed the cows in December and have a late season hunt.
 
jmb4wd said:
I have a food plot customer I plant corn for In Williamson co and each year they kind of dual purpose there big food plots.

They work ground in fall and sow a custom mix of wheat, oats rape and such and let It stand all summer. They then burn it off with controlled burn in august and ground is so clean. Also broadcast some feed wheat at that time and they always have a big shoot.
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You mean fire burn? Do they spray or mow it first? I like this idea. Get the bonus fall food plot.
 
The best method I have seen for cost effectiveness while still achieving a great hunt is to top sow a disked wheat field in August. After it rains or it sprouts go a few disc rows over and do another field to prevent over seeding the sprouted field.. Just keep doing this until September.
 
I did a plot years ago in Indiana of brown top millet and the doves loved it. I had sunflowers next to it, but they loved the millet as much or more. It was easy to plant and grow as well, just disked it up well and broadcast the seed and drug it once.
 
THE DUKE said:
Did you bushhog it down or leave it standing?
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Mowed it down as close to the ground as possible. This was only an acre in size, kinda a test to see how they liked it and how it grew. I learned it from a guy that planted much much larger fields, and he actually stopped planting any sunflowers because they liked the millet so much.
 
Thank you. This is my field 3 days ago. Did as you said chaneylake last spraying was in March.
Crops didn't do super well this time because of drought and high Temps. The corn came and went. Raccoons ate it all. The sunflowers are my 4th planting in this plot. Still very clean after 5months.
 

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