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Help me design the perfect hunting plot. I have 85 acres with a long skinny 5 acre field in CRP that I am planting in NWSG this spring. There is another 5 acre T shaped field that I want to turn into the perfect hunting food plot. It is on top of a hill with big hollows and creeks on all sides. Everything is downhill from this field. Last year I didn't have much time to get things done It was plowed up in early August and all I had to work with was the ends of the fields. The rest had big root wads from Sumac that had been growing in it. It has all been disced up now and will be ready to plant in the spring. I planted wheat in the green areas, turnips in the purple and clover in the yellow. The clover pretty much got washed away when IKE came thru with 8 inches of rain. The wheat and turnips have been getting hammered and I want to have some of each next year.

I had lime applied which should have the PH to about 6.5 this summer.

On my topo/aerial the green is where I have wheat, the purple is in turnips, and the yellow was clover, not much left. The deer really approach from almost anywhere, but the trails they use the most are in white. My approach to the field is from 2 trails in orange. The area inside the black is a huge hollow that is my sanctuary. The red dots are stand locations.

I can plant just about anything here from corn to beans and clover or milo and might even put some NWSG or switchgrass in for cover to get to stands. So have at it and build me a plot.



Here is a better aerial for more reference.

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