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By:
JSW
Date:02-Apr-24
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I bought my first piece of land in 1982. It was pastureland and trees so I fenced around a timbered corner for better hunting. I cleared out a spot that I planted to mile the first year, not knowing what else the deer would like. It worked out very well.
Is there anyone on here who started food plots before 1982?
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By:
Charlie Rehor
Date:02-Apr-24
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1984. Bought land that had an old apple orchard on about three acres of the 40. Trimmed the apples trees and drove fertilizer stakes in the ground around them. I thought I was pretty cool.
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By:
RonP
Date:02-Apr-24
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probably some farmer at the turn of the last century, maybe sooner.
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By:
Dale06
Date:02-Apr-24
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2010 for me, but my plots are mostly for pheasants. However, deer use them some.
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By:
Saphead
Date:02-Apr-24
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Nope 1991 for me
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By:
t-roy
Date:02-Apr-24
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Not till I moved back home to Iowa in ‘97. First 2 plots were about a half acre each clover plots. Up to about 17-18 acres in about 12 different plots, ranging from a quarter acre to 4 acres, and a variety of crops from clover, alfalfa, small burnett, chicory, various brassicas, cereal grains, winter peas, corn and soybeans. Also have planted a variety of apple, pear, crabapple and chestnut trees. Bowhunting is my biggest passion, but working on my plots and TSI projects on my land, is a close second.
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By:
BUCKeye
Date:02-Apr-24
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Early 90s I planted some corn and beans in a heavily wooded funnel. Fully shaded canopy and no fertilizer. Thought the food and extra cover would really pull them in...
A couple of the beans actually grew and produced 2 or 3 pods.
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By:
Blood
Date:02-Apr-24
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Haha. In 1987 my friend and I rototilled a strip about 30 yards long and 15 feet wide. We planted it with corn hoping it would pull deer right up to the house. The corn grew about 3 feet tall and looked like a Charlie Brown Xmas tree food plot. We were 15-16 years old at the time. Didn’t know we were making a “food plot”…. Just that deer might like corn.
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By:
drycreek
Date:02-Apr-24
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I guess it was in the mid eighties when I started planting wheat in the fall in a plot or two. Now I plant six plots on one lease, two at home and one on another lease. Spring plots and fall plots.
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By:
FORESTBOWS
Date:02-Apr-24
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I was 8 is 1982
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By:
KsRancher
Date:03-Apr-24
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^^Lol. I was 4yrs away from being born
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By:
Bow Crazy
Date:03-Apr-24
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Mine was sometime around 1990, not sure. I will have to check my notes. We were in a CRP plan that allowed a food plot even back then. I planted corn mostly, it did okay, always weedy. After 2001 I got involved in a test program with the NWTF to test chufa in the north, Wisconsin. It grew good, weedy too of course. I dug some up for the turkeys to find. I really couldn't tell if they were eating it or what was. I just have put a trail camera on it. BC
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By:
Schmitty78
Date:03-Apr-24
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Got me beat! I was only 4 in 82’ though:). Planted my first plots in 1998. Used a walk behind rear tine tiller that my dad had for his garden. Started with two 1/4-1/2 acre little clover plots. I have about as much fun food plotting as I do actually hunting these days!
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By:
JSW
Date:08-Apr-24
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After I planted the milo plot in 82, my neighbor who was also my old Sunday school teacher walked through the property. She told her husband she thought I was growing marijuana. I still laugh when I think about her reaction.
I think they were even more concerned about my sanity when I told them it was for the deer.
