Well they all look good and healthy anyway! I'd just sit on the porch with my cup of coffee and my gun. :clap
Thank you for the update.
With all this rain we've had maybe you should have planted rice instead 😉
Hunting from the porch would be sweet. That one doe is pretty healthy looking.
Clover/corn food plot Day 107
My DSL modem quit, a new one is on the way, hopefully by Friday. Using a computer at the church to make todays post :shifty .
Started picking some corn, mostly red ears showing up, maybe 75%.
Still wet, no progress on fall clover planting yet.
Hope to have pics next week. Got over 200 pics by the pear tree this afternoon.
Treefarmer
Clover/corn food plot Day 114
Picked the small patch of corn that is on the north side of the pond and shooting house. Not a good yield due to weather and the deer had eaten a lot more of it than I thought. There will be plenty of red corn for seed to continue the red corn project, but probably not enough to make corn meal like last season.
The fields are probably dry enough to prepare for a fall plot if the weekend weather doesn't get too wet. Thinking about this and checking where the clover failed earlier this year, I got to noticing the corn side of this plot. Upon inspection, there is very little corn left on the stalks as the deer have worked it over. At this rate there will be no corn in the field come Thanksgiving Day. Granted, there was not as much corn produced this year as compared to last year, but since it has been eaten so early it makes me wonder if this is not the result of the deer expecting/remembering last season? The same thing has happened several times on our lease, different crops but same result. 1st year plantings of peas or beans in the woods showed very little use from the deer until the crop was mature. The 2nd season the deer seemed to be waiting on the crop to be planted and worked on it pretty good and the 3rd season they would cut the soybeans or iron&clay peas down before they were 6 inches high. This maybe has happened to the corn this season. I'll have to use my corn feeder in the "corn patch". Live and learn! Read the other day where some cotton had to be replanted because the deer had destroyed the small plants in the spring.
Still have deer eating pears in the front yard and they are browsing through the peanuts since they are about to run out of corn. Probably will replant the clover in the same spot and plant the corn side in rye grain or oats if the weather allows. About 60 days+/- till rifle season and food plot has almost run out, time to improvise.
Pictures for this week show some of the picked corn, what most of the corn in the plot looks like and a middle of the day front yard visitor.
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