Episode 653, How to Put a Food Plot in During Hot Dry Weather with Antler King's Robie Pruitt
Up North Journal Podcast · Mike Adams, Dan DeFauw and Mark Coleman
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Show Notes
What do you do when it's too dry to put a food plot in? How do you keep your deer herd growing in dry weather? Listen in tonight with Robie Pruitt of Antler King tonight as he joins the boys in the UNJ Cabin!
How dry is it?
- Midwest conditions
- What is happening to the food plots now
- Look for what you can plant later
- Any rain now will not be enough
Planting Later
- You'll lose growing season but you'll get something at lest to feed deer
- Plant later rather than early
- When rains eventually hit, it's time to fertilize
Mark's food plots in Indiana
Quick talk about safety with trailers and the outdoors
Spring food plots going dormant due to no rain
- Stay off them!
- Can't give it enough water
- Needs 30,000 gallons of water per acre every two days
- Wait till it rains
- Annuals will not come back if it goes dormant
- Perennial will come back if it goes dormant
Get a soil test
Answering listener questions
What over seeding can cause
Seed depth
Planting in dry weather
Dry weather and EHD
Providing water for deer
Kool Aid for deer