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How many acres are you working with?
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j-bird
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I HOPE you mean - how large is the piece of property we manage/work on......'cause if you have 147 acres in "plots" as in "foodplots" - holy crap!:eek:
My entire property is right at 150 total acres. I "plot" only about 2 to 3 acres of it.
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MoBuckChaser
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Too Many!
Its starting to become a job......
Its starting to become a job......
Family owns roughly 30, 15 of which is swamp. I have about one acre in food plots. Lots of oaks, pines, and spruce. 70% of the work I do is with regards to planting natives. the other 30% is fruit trees and plots. In between one 20+ acre ag field (corn this year) and another 75+acre field (also corn this year). Swamp on 2 sides of the property, one of which is across the road (we own ~50% of it and it's not hunted by anyone else) and the other swamp is state land. The best thing though is that it's a 5 minute WALK from our cottage.
My neighbor has 250+ which I help him work (he's in his early 70's). He lets me hunt the back of his that butts up against ours. Only 2 stands, one for rifle and one for bow. I have to walk across 100' of our actual neighbor's land to get to it. He's kind of a dink. If we buy that we'll get up to 33, but be able to manage an additional 5-10 acres since right now we don't do much by that line.
If my experience has taught me anything, it's that on small parcels the top 3 things are (in no particular order):
1. focusing on native browse/cover
2. Hunting smart
3. broadcasting red clover in little openings (30ft by 30ft) to make kill plots and steer deer.
My neighbor has 250+ which I help him work (he's in his early 70's). He lets me hunt the back of his that butts up against ours. Only 2 stands, one for rifle and one for bow. I have to walk across 100' of our actual neighbor's land to get to it. He's kind of a dink. If we buy that we'll get up to 33, but be able to manage an additional 5-10 acres since right now we don't do much by that line.
If my experience has taught me anything, it's that on small parcels the top 3 things are (in no particular order):
1. focusing on native browse/cover
2. Hunting smart
3. broadcasting red clover in little openings (30ft by 30ft) to make kill plots and steer deer.
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
My little piece of the pie is about 25 acres, but it is a pretty decent 25 acres. Mostly big woods, with swamp/bog around me. Very little in the area for ag, but there is one bigger ag farmer about a half mile away. I plant about 2.5 acres in food plots, and have about a dozen apple trees, that havent produced yet, but I have my hopes high for next year.
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MoBuckChaser
Guest
Some big deer have been killed on small chunks! Those apples start producing and look out!
Powder
5 year old buck +
I've got 240 acres. Last year I put in a small clover plot, maybe a half acre at most and one that I would consider a kill plot, about .2 acres. The smaller one had turnips, radishes and clover. I didn't get around to doing more this year so the clover that is left is all there is. We did just log about 40 acres this winter so I think there should be good food for them until next spring. I'm hoping to have about 4 acres in plots next year along with planting some apples/crabapples next spring.
