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Guys,

Nothing is worse than looking at your plots and second guessing what you should have done compared to what you did do. Lets all post pictures of our soybean plots on this post with explanations of how we planted and in what conditions. Hopefully we can steal ideas from each other and all have better plots this next year.

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I did take a soil sample on here but not till after I added a tone of lime to a couple of the plots. After the soil sample I found out I didn't need the lime and had wasted my time. However I did fertilize to the reccommendations and till it into the soil. I planted by broadcasting and then using a harrow to cover. Here are a few pictures.

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Mine just started popping up. Also waiting for standing water to dry up so i can actually walk back there.

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We just planted ours last Wednesday. They are just barely popping up as of yesterday. I'll take some pictures around the end of the week hopefully and then post them.

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Hey quick question, what type of fertilizer would you guys use on your soybean plots?

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Here's opne of my 5 soybean plots, they all look about the same right now. This is 1 month after planting (6-27-09)- day of ROUNDUP application.
If like past years - this plot will look a WHOLE lot better in 2-3 weeks.

Smallest plot 1/4 acre - Biggest 2 acres.

We sometimes add a little UREA at planting on the poorer soils - but some plots get none and do fine.
We do not harvestand sometimes have to add P but almost never K.



FH

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Not mine, butafarmer's (my neighbor at the bottom of the ridge) beans. He lets me hunt a little over our property line into his fields, but I mostly juststay on my property and hunttheir travel routes coming back from the beans to bedding and vice versa... The first pic is from a few weeks ago and the others are from a few days ago. (SE Indiana)










They've been eating my clover pretty well all spring but now they are heading for the beans a lot more. Another section of the beans..
Can you spot the doe and fawn about the field edge? The fawn is kind of hard to see, bad pic...





They have eased up on the clover a littlefor the beans but my guess is they will visit the clover more often right before the first frosts. That is fine though because its letting the clover go to seed and I need that to happen...We'll see..


Some ofmy clover, slowly fighting its way back from being nearlychokedout by grass this spring. Mowing helps.

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Soybeans, Corn, and Cowpeas with the rest in clover making a total of 1 acre

Clover is second year clover. Planting was done after a long string of very strong storms which had the ground too wet to plant for about 2 weeks. So when we planted there was plenty of moisture in the ground.

Planted on June 24th



Pictures taken on July 2nd

Soybeans - planted north-south & east-west







Corn - planted on east, north, and west side of beans



Cowpeas - planted 8 rows + a little more along the trees on the south side of food plot

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Crenth, I like the "architecture" of your planting. I'd really like to see how it grows in the coming weeks.

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Here are two plots - one week after spraying.





if you compare to my picture a few back - you can see the difference roundup can make even in 1 week.

FH

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Nice looking plots fellas! Crenth, I have never planted Cowpeas with a planter before, and I'm curious as to which planter plates you used. If you don't mind me asking. Thanks!

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We used the soybean plates. They are smaller than soybeans so they are dropped more often than soybeans but it worked out fine.


Some updated pictures.

Cowpeas





Corn



Soybeans

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I was kind of fishing for the plate #. I have a 2 row Allis-Chalmers planter similar to yours and I have the B-Soy-2 plates but I believe there are 2 or 3 other sizes. Its not a big deal for food plots, but sometimes the wrong size plate will crack the seeds before they are dropped. What ever size you used done a good job that's for sure and I'm interested to try it.

Your plot is definitely growing good! Looks like you just had a good bit of rain right before the pic was taken:D

Good luck and keep us updated if you would! Thanks

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Good stuff everyone...

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We had over 2" of rain on the 4th. We have to send in our game camera so hopefully we'll be getting the new one back by the weekend so we can run out there and put it up. I'll get some more pics then.

I'll try to find out the plate number for you too.

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A nice looking buck out on the plot Thursday night.

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Haystack!! I couldn't find any numbers on them. Would a picture help you out?

Crenth, Those plates are color coded. They will most likely be white, yellow or violet. That is all I would need to know. Whatever you do don't go to a lot of trouble and thanks for what you have already done.

We have metal plates, not plastic ones, which I think is what you are referring too.

Here are some pictures

Yep, Crenth I forgot about the metal plates even though the planter I have came with some 16 cell metal corn plates, I've just always used the plastic plates.

It looks like your plates are the 20 cell soy plates, which as a plastic plate I think is called a B-SOY. Either way, the #310992 is all its going take when I go to the co-op and ask for a favor;) They'll let me use whatever size I need and if it works out as good for me as it did you, I'll probably go ahead and buy a set.

Thanks a lot Crenth for the pictures and the help, I hope it wasn't to much trouble. And good luck with your plots and that nice buck that's been showing up!!

It was no problem haystack!! Glad I could help!

Here are some pics of my plot from April till now. I planted a 1/2 acre of clover and chicory right next to the bushline where my stand is. Then I planted a 1/2 acre of soybean next to that and then 1 acre of corn in the shape of an L around the bushline from where the deer approach the field to provide a staging area in cover and food near to my stand sites.
I had attempted the soybeans in the past after heavily treating the ground with herbicides. No weeds grew but my soybeans were eaten faster than they could grow. The corn was also heavily browsed early and produced half of what I had anticipated. This year I tried a different approach. I knew from having disked the ground in other years I have an abundant ragweed seed bed in this field. This year i disked the field prior to planting and did little with herbicides. The ragweed grew up thick and has provided some protection to the soybean plants. The deer are browsing on the ragweed just as much as the soybean and Ihave a much healthier crop than before which already has produced more food than before. I was worried about the ragweed choking out the soybean and robbing it of nutrients but it is thicker than it had been other years. I am also seeing more birds (turkey, quail and pheasant) coming to the field now that the ragweed was left to grow.

This year has been more of an experiment of sorts and so far I am having good results with having spent alot less on weed eradication. It isn't as pretty as those plots in the Whitetail Institute Articles but the deer don't seem to care any less than when the plot was weed-free.

That plot looks awesome!

Nice setup!!

Thanks guys, I was waiting to get bashed for having "too many" weeds. Like I said, it isn't the prettiest but so far it has been effective especially at drawing in turkeys and other game birds. They seem to hang out in the thick stuff probably for security and once the ragweed seeds they will have more food.

As far as the setup I have every shootable area of the food plot covered with a maximum of a 40 yd shot. Where the beans and corn meet on the upper right side I will be putting in my ground blind to cover those two areas while the stands at either end will provide a shot at either the clover/chicory or the deer traveling to and from the corn and their water source- 2 ponds located 50yds from the far end of the corn. Now I just have to play the wind and thermals. Thanks Again!

So we went out today to spray to kill the weeds. Saw 2 deer down in the woods on the drive in and then busted 2 of them eating on the food plot. So that was good!! Then found out that they have been nipping at our beans pretty good. Also been nipping on the corn too.

But anyway, here are some updated pictures for you guys. They haven't touched the cowpeas though.



Beans



Corn



Cowpeas

Have you had much success with the cow peas? I was wondering what the nutrient content was and how much it costs per acre to plant. I will do a search online. Your plot looks very neat and orderly compared to mine. Do you think your soybeans will withstand browsing long enough to produce beans. In Ohio where I hunt, they plant acres of soybeans and they get hammered long before they have a chance to produce beans, by september they are just bare stalks. I am excited to see how things go for me this year and how my bean crop does with this added cover. Your plot looks great. I will post more pics throughout the rest of the year until winter. Next year I may designate an acre of the unfarmed portion of my field to winter greens. I had too many other things going on this year and didn't prep the area for it. From here on out I will only be going to my plot to fill my feeders and check the cameras. I want to leave it as undisturbed as possible until hunting season.