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Give Your Plots a Boost
Heavy browsing can stress a food plot. The author recommends using Impact to help forages recover faster after browsing.
Dan Eastman
By Dan Eastman, Wildlife Consultant
unters are continually bombarded with how-to basics on food plot development and product selection. Unfortunately, less information is available to take you to the next level — after your plot is established. Along with proper soil preparation, lime, fertilizer, mowing and grass and weed control, there is more you can do to produce exceptional food plots. Today, we have come a long way from our initial food plot projects just to attract deer. Now, we think more like a dairy farmer maintaining a herd. Every step we take requires serious consideration about the nutritional and environmental impact it will have on the local deer. In our first years of plantings, we were happy to get the product to grow and were happy to see that the deer really liked what we planted. As we became addicted to food plots and what they did, we found more of our time was dedicated to researching forage nutrition. Much of what we learned came from agricultural literature designed for farmers. Did you know that a farmer knows that the first cut has the most nutrition and that if a crop grows past a certain number of days you lose a percentage point a day in protein for some types of vegetation? As a food plot manager, this information is useful. Regular mowing is a key to keeping the new growth that maintains the highest nutritional value for the animals (mowing also helps control grass and weed problems). Frequent applications of Impact — a high-nutrient liquid plant growth stimulant — provides you with exceptional growth and healthier plots. We generally apply Impact twice a year on a plot — once in the spring and again mid to late summer. Impact also helps us in Vermont with our very short growing season (60 to 70 days). Frequently, we will apply Impact to a Secret Spot patch or to a plot cut late
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