'In this video we are hiring a seed drill owner to plant my fall food plot seed mix - a diverse cover crop of highly preferred plants for deer that will take out plots through hunting season and into next spring and summer. This is a dry site with lots of weeds and we want to drill into existing clover, so a seed drill is the best way to get good germination is to use a drill. Delmar\'s phone # is 717-594-8708 Most food plots are planted with tillage and broadcasting the seed. I try to get away from tillage and herbicide as much as possible. In part of this area, we used a rotory tiller to tear up weeds and get soil up to the surface where we broadcast cereal grains and brassicas for a fall plot. These fields will come up with weeds next summer and we will need to do some spraying then to get them under control before planting again. One way to clean up these fields would be to plant legumes and use a herbicide like Pursuit and Clethodim if necessary to get rid of grass and broadleaf weeds. We can till in the pre-emergent pursuit and plant a heave stand of peas to get these fields under control. The problem is we can\'t plant enough spring plots to keep ahead of the deer - they wipe out anything you plant. This year we planted all the fields in species that will be very palatable in spring so we hopefully will overwhelm them with food. The only thing missing from this deer hunting property is forest management - there is a lack of thick low cover and browse which limits the amount of deer that can live on the property. But, the landowner doesn\'t want to harvest so I can only work on the old fields. I reclaimed these old fields many years ago which were in ferns, pines and deer tongue grass - nothing for deer to eat. Now, we have switchgrass for cover and about 4 acres of food plots. Who is Stephen Chilcote? Certified Forester Wildlife Habitat Biologist Land & Farm Realtor Who is my ideal client? My ideal client is a guy who wants to buy land and transform it into an income producing property with great hunting potential or a guy who has land and wants to improve his timber INCOME and game holding capacity of his land. Not only DIY guys but guys with the money to hire everything done I want to be know as the guy who can help people buy land and transform that land into an exceptional hunting property. Not just give advice but transform the property into an ideal hunting tract fast. Who I am trying to serve? Landowners and potential landowners What am I serving them with? Information on how to buy land and improve wildlife habitat on the land. Information on how to get the most out of your timber investment FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW.CHILCOTEFORESTER.COM'
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