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 Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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03/23/17 04:29 AM
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mulie_mike
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I have a 20 acre field that is plowed and ready to be planted but checking recommendations
on what to plant in this area?
I want something to benefit the wildlife of course but at the same time there is no irrigation so it needs
to be hardy.
Thoughts?
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
[Re: mulie_mike]
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03/23/17 09:54 AM
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look for whats native to that area
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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03/23/17 11:04 AM
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Cactus and rocks. Sorry Mike, I don't know what to tell you, I just joined a lease there and no one has any plots.
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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03/23/17 01:16 PM
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More important then what you plant now is what you use to amend the soil for the Fall. Whatever you plant now will just burn up in a few months, and you're competing with the natural new growth, which the deer prefer. Get your soil tested for what you want to plant in the Fall, and get it done now. It takes four to six months to have any affect to the soil, so the timing is perfect to do it now.
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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03/23/17 03:00 PM
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Thanks Eddie, will look into that.
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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03/24/17 11:28 AM
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Mike, your best bet is contact the county agriculture agent, they will even come out and make recommendations, all for FREE... The only part of land amendments that would take 4-6 months would be adding Lime to change the PH, but I'd bet a nickle you dont need lime out/down there, but 100% agree on a soil sample before opening the check book and shotgunning fertilizer. Here is the site to download the submittal form and instructions, with how and where? If you want it when the agent arrives, this would aid them in recommendations and/or explaining the results. You'll probably want form S17 http://soiltesting.tamu.edu/
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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03/28/17 06:58 PM
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Mike, your best bet is contact the county agriculture agent, they will even come out and make recommendations, all for FREE... The only part of land amendments that would take 4-6 months would be adding Lime to change the PH, but I'd bet a nickle you dont need lime out/down there, but 100% agree on a soil sample before opening the check book and shotgunning fertilizer. Here is the site to download the submittal form and instructions, with how and where? If you want it when the agent arrives, this would aid them in recommendations and/or explaining the results. You'll probably want form S17 http://soiltesting.tamu.edu/ Thank you!
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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03/28/17 08:48 PM
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Dust in some oats on/around Sept 20th and pray for rain. I wouldn't waste time on a summer plot.
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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04/07/17 01:21 AM
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Mike,
Im not real familiar with that area in particular but I do know the right variety of milo does very well in low rainfall areas and in my experience the deer really like it. What I might do is plant milo on half for a summer crop to get them coming to that spot and then plant some oats or wheat in the other half in the fall.
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Re: Dry Land Food Plot- Sonora Texas
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05/01/17 01:22 AM
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I would t waste a lot of time and effort on a spring/summer plot in our area.
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