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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.
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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 |
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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