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ATV / UTV Hunting & Fishing Land Use

Utilize Your ATV / UTV to Prepare a Food Plot for Hunting
Maximize Your Deer Hunting Opportunity

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Preparation for a successful hunt for quality game starts well before the hunting season with the utilization of food plots
(10/23/2008) - Driving down the farm road at one of my favorite haunts years ago, got me to thinking of why I liked this particular farm so much. The hunting was always good, the terrain was very easy to navigate, and it just seemed like all the needed ingredients were there to have abundant wildlife. That thought always remained in my head when ever I hunted a new area and soon I started realizing that there were things I could do on many places I hunted to better the quality of the land to give the animals some added food along with setting for myself a place to hunt that I knew would bring game in.

Food plots and selective plantings are reaching their peak as for the past 20 years have seen a huge rise in this practice. Big name companies have devoted great time and monies to giving us seeds to plant that will be the most beneficial for everything from deer to ducks and if you’re not using this practice, maybe you should take a second look into just how easy it can be to help elevate your hunting with some land management. As long as you have permission to modify the land, or happen to be the land owner, your first step will be deciding where and what to plant. Of course time of year will dictate when to plant, and to a large extent what to plant, so some pre planning may need to be in order.

What? You don’t have a clue about being a farmer? Well don’t run away just yet, because for most small scale food plots, you probably have everything you need right in your garage, and a trip to the local feed store will net you some advice for your area and some seeds to get yourself started. If your local farm supply doesn’t offer anything, you can buy online as most all of the well known names (Biologic, Moultrie, and Tecomate) offer their products via good old UPS.

ATV / UTV  Deer Seed Planting
ATV / UTV  Deer Seed Planting

Check with your local farm cooperative to see which seeds/plants will do best in your region

Be sure to check which seeds are included in your chosen bag by reading the seed listing on the package

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But I don’t have a tractor!? Well, you obviously have an ATV or UTV or you wouldn’t be reading this information on a website based entirely on them so it’s time for you to get a little creative and blow the dust off your machine and put it to work! Ideally, yes, a tractor with a nice disc would be sitting in your driveway, but in many cases, you won’t be able to get a tractor or equipment of that nature back into the area you want to grow a food plot, so your ATV/UTV will be the perfect machine to help with this undertaking. Of course your machine won’t do all the work, as after you have picked out your location, you will need to clear away brush, maybe some tree’s and of course prepare the soil for planting. Even with the bare minimum of equipment you can find unlimited ways that your ATV/UTV can help get the job done faster then without one, and if you can swing the money to pick up some of the new attachments available for your machine, you will be quickly on your way to getting things ready to be planted.
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