Can you recommend a no-till drill?
Filed under: Food Plots
I have a Woods 10 foot disc harrow that we’ve been using to disc the fields and works great. I’m looking for a seeder now……. can you recommend one? I looked at WOODS PSS84 hunting edition or the Firminator G3. We are planning to plant a variety of seeds from clover to soy beens. Or can you recommend one? a non-till drill that you use??
Thank You,
John Nuzzi
P.s. Very big fan of yours…..God Bless America
John,
Sounds like you have some nice equipment! I don’t own a disk and haven’t used a disk in any food plot at my place since we created the first food plot.
Disking always results in some (a lot or a little) soil erosion and compaction. Using a no-till drill will conserve soil moisture, promote creation of high quality new soil by allowing the existing vegetation to decompose, reduce nutrients leaching through the soil profile, etc.
I simply spray with glyphosate about two weeks before the soil is warm enough to plant during the spring. I then no till Eagle Seed’s forage soybeans directly into the duff. The duff serves as a great mulch that conserves soil moisture and reduces weed competition! As it rots it releases nutrients slowly throughout the growing season.
About 45 to 60 days before the average first frost date during the fall I broadcast Eagle’s Broadside blend into the stand beans. The beans created a surplus of nitrogen and Broadside will utilize this and other elements released from the decaying mulch.
This rotation provides very high quality and attractive forage throughout the growing season and soybean pods throughout the winter. I simply repeat the next year!
You can learn more about this rotation by watching episodes at http://www.GrowingDeer.com. You can learn about the new no-till drill I tested and helped design by call Paul Hollis at Redexim (314-378-1889). Check our Redexim.com.
Enjoy creation,
grant
November 16, 2015
