longrangedog
Senior Member
If you have a large deer population and no fence you won't make ANY beans. Deer will eat the bean plants. The 3 acres will be consumed before the plants bloom.
The Florida Dept. of Agriculture experimented with electric fences in an effort to keep deer and hogs out of crops. A standard 3 wire electric fence doesn't work. This one does. https://www.farmprogress.com/management/mega-fence-for-deer-hogs
We tried on 2 acres and total fail. Deer/hogs will eat every single one.If you have a large deer population and no fence you won't make ANY beans. Deer will eat the bean plants. The 3 acres will be consumed before the plants bloom.
We tried on 2 acres and total fail. Deer/hogs will eat every single one.
The Florida Dept. of Agriculture experimented with electric fences in an effort to keep deer and hogs out of crops. A standard 3 wire electric fence doesn't work. This one does. https://www.farmprogress.com/management/mega-fence-for-deer-hogs
I enjoy farming for wildlife. I’d rather have an old tractor than 2 new 4wheelers.
I have found mowing briar patches add more green that comes back and a little 10 10 10 on it makes it even better. Iron clay has the best chance. If close to bow season. Soybeans. Try to plan the second planting of they coming up with opening weekend.
Sorghum is the poor mans corn. Sunflowers don’t stand a chance for a dove field. Millet does. Buckwheat ain’t bad. Deer have to get use to it. Clover is a lot of work but gives 9 months on the average.
Just some small observations.
I like wheat and oats for patches. Deer eat it. Once it heads out Turkey can use it. Hogs will eat the tops also.
Trapping helps all game animals. Hogs are included for trapping.
I enjoy farming for wildlife. I’d rather have a old tractor than 2 new 4wheelers.
Deer will browse on it after it gets up. Nip the tops. It can seed out for birds also.How does the wildlife treat buckwheat?
Does South Carolina have a deer management assistance program like Georgia?
Sounds like you need professional management advice for your deer heard numbers
Does South Carolina have a deer management assistance program like Georgia?
Sounds like you need professional management advice for your deer heard numbers
I volunteer to reduce that seed stealing turkey population!I am not sure - or it is that I don’t know anything about it.
Sounds like @Gut_Pile does and I think he is pretty dialed in.
I believe it was him several years ago that showed me a pic of a trailer loaded with does. If yes, they went on a serious killing spree.
I am not interested in additional tags, we don’t use all of the ones we have now.
Also def do not want to start any processes near me that include shooting deer out of season. Afraid the local farmers would work to emulate it and that process is so easily fraught with errors and in some cases, malicious behavior.
My brother hunts a farm in Bulloch county that we have been on for almost 40 years now. In the last 3-4 years, the landowner has allowed the tenant farmer to use depredation permits and the farm is 100% different now (to the negative). There are other issues like land encroachment but there is little debate that there are less deer and almost certainly, some of the bucks are gone (likely unintentional but gone they are).
All of that to say this - while I complain about the deer herd (and hot weather) I am not in favor of any intrusion or drastic changes.
I admit to being part of the problem. Think I may have killed 2 deer in the last 4 years. The ones killed at our place are almost always family and friends - I encourage them to shoot those jokers.
We just need to shoot more with the tags we have.
Now they also need to come shoot some of those seed stealing turkeys!
I believe it was him several years ago that showed me a pic of a trailer loaded with does. If yes, they went on a serious killing spree.
Thank you sir. I bought some ol rough mountain ground (27 acres) that was mature hardwoods 8 years ago. The seller cleared and stumped it, and intended to make a pasture out of it. That never happened and its all broom sage now. In a perfect world the land needs about 100 tons of lime. Thats a bit out of my budget, so im going to disc it and plant buckwheat to try to build the soil up this summer. Maybe have a good dove shoot before I plant fall deer plots.Deer will browse on it after it gets up. Nip the tops. It can seed out for birds also.
Thank you sir. I bought some ol rough mountain ground (27 acres) that was mature hardwoods 8 years ago. The seller cleared and stumped it, and intended to make a pasture out of it. That never happened and its all broom sage now. In a perfect world the land needs about 100 tons of lime. Thats a bit out of my budget, so im going to disc it and plant buckwheat to try to build the soil up this summer. Maybe have a good dove shoot before I plant fall deer plots.