Happy New Year!!!!

I just wanted to take a moment and thank each and everyone of you who take the time to check and read this blog and to all of my Food plot customers. 

I am truly blessed to have had the chance to have worked for you and for the opportunity to help you with your food plots.  I have gotten to see so much of this wonder state this year and it has been a pleasure to meet so many nice people with common interest.

I look foward to a great 2012, and again thanks for your business.

Justin

Update on Chester co. Fall Plot

Wow, what a busy fall.  Between my busy family and food plotting and trying to fit in a hunt or two I have not had much spare time to blog! 

I don't get many chances to follow up on the fall plots due to distance and time, but I was able to visit the fall plot that I installed in September located in Chester co. 

We sowed a clover chicory mix and topdressed it with my Winter wheat, oats, and winter pea mix.  I have to admit that I was really happy to see how well it looked considering how the deer devoured the Eagle beans we planted in the spring. 

Music Row Food Plots for Rhett Akins

I had a phone call from a good customer of mine, who had a buddy who need a few small plots done.  That guy is Country Music Singer, Songwriter Rhett Akins.  Rhett is apart of a 2200 acre lease just outside of West Nashville.  We met and decided on the areas we wanted to plant, and we decided that the Fall Mix would be just right, and we also added in some seven top turnips to add some brassicas to the spots.  I was in a big rush, so I didnt get many pictures but this gives you a idea of the job and the area. 

Fall Attraction Plots-Rutherford County

This is one of my favorite farms to work on as it has a perfect mix of cover and food!  I first installed some plots here last fall, and this year we did the same spots and we added a great bow hunting plot that is sure to pay off.  I sowed 4 plots in our Fall Mix  (Winter Wheat, Oats, and Austrian Winter Peas), and in the bow hunting spot I added some Clover-Chicory as well.   I'm excited to see how well these plots do this year! 

Chester Co. Fall Plots---WI Chicory Plus---------Also Eagle Bean Update

Got to travel back to Chester co. Tennessee again, and try to establish a couple of Clover and Chicory plots.  The deer in this part of the world are well fed this year as they completely destroyed our 4.5 acres of Eagle Soybeans.  Although I have to give a big thumbs up to Eagle Seed,  as these Large Lad's are still putting on new leaves, after 4 months of being snipped off multiple times.  When you see a soybean field that looks like this one does after 4 months,  you are serious need of more food sources for your deer. 

On to the fall plots, we worked about 2 acres up and broadcasted fertilizer and 100lbs of the Fall mix, and disced it in, and then overseeded the field with the Whitetail Institute Chicory Plus.

Benton County Fall Plots!!

I got to meet a couple of really great guys on a new to them 500 acre lease in Benton Co. Tennessee.  They had been doing alot of work and had these two fields in tip top shape for me to come in and work.  One field was 1.25 acres that layed in a long narrow shape, and we sowed it down with the Fall Mix consisting of Winter Wheat, Oats, Austrian Winter Peas, and we then overseeded it with some Crimson clover. 

On the other side of that 25ft high shooting house lies a 2.5 acres field that we sowed with a 8 way Clover blend purchased from Hoopers Supply in Murfreesboro, TN.

Busy Fall Season!!!!

Sorry about being gone so long, but it has been a extremely busy fall for us at Back Acre Food Plots.  I was begining to wonder if we were going to have a repeat of 2010 as the upper 90's  and extremely dry conditions dragged on through mid August, but boy has September been a dream come true for us wildlife managers who are trying to overseed clover and establish Fall attraction plots!! 

Lets get going here and I will fill you in on all of our latest food plot jobs!   Remember to get your soil testing done this fall, and you wont have to worry with it come spring!!!

Loaded up and ready to go!!

Quick Update on my Plots!!

Just had to post up a couple of pictures of my Black Oil Sunflowers that I no-tilled back in July.  I just love looking at Sunflowers, as they are so pretty and attractive to so many different creatures.  Tonight when I took these photos, there were hundreds of butterflys feeding and flying around the patch.  Enjoy!

Here is also a couple of pictures of some brown top millet that we had sowed last year in a food plot.  This is a volunteer stand that came up just from being disced under into the soil.  Look at all the seed on this one plant!!

Update on my Plots!!

I figured that I would post a few pictures of my summer plots.  While this is my first year working with the products from Eagle Seed, it sure won't be my last.  Their products are top notch!  Just look at these Large Lad Forage Soybeans that I planted on July 4th.

Here is another small plot that I no-tilled on July 4th.  I used a regular bag of Black Oil Sunflower Seed, straight from the Bird Feeding aisle.  They are looking great and should be opening up this week. 

New Fall Plot---Smithville, TN

Here are a couple of shots of a new plot that I worked up not very far from Center Hill Lake.  In this particular plot, we sowed several different things to see how they will do.   We broadcasted some Peredovic Sunflowers over both spots, and we also added German Millet to the top plot, and Brown Top Millet to the lower one. 

Don't let these pictures fool you, this hill was steep!!  When turning around and going down hill, I had a hard time staying in the tractor seat!! 

Getting Ready for Fall Plots!!!

I had a couple of jobs this past week, one for my very first food plot customer in Moore County, and one for a new customer, not far from Center Hill Lake outside of Smithville, TN.

On the Moore county job, I did some bush hogging to get this field in shape for a fall plot.  Last years we worked about an acre and a half of this 5 acre field and sowed it with a mix of winter wheat, oats , Austrian Winter Peas.   We got it cleaned off so that we can spray in the next few weeks, and get it worked down in September. 

One important thing to remember when getting ready to mow a field like this is to wait untill late August, or the first week in September, so that the Turkey are finished nesting, and that most fawns are big enough to get up and run away from the mower!   After one round in this field, a fawn jumped up and ran into the woods.     Also by mowing now, we will have lots of fresh green browse regrowing from this field for the deer to graze on from now till first killing frost.  Not all food plots have to planted, some just need a little managment.

Late Summer Plot----- More Eagle Large Lads!!!

On July 4th, I finally got a change to plant a bag of Eagle Seed's Large Lad Soybeans.   This small plots is located behind my home as a little test plot!

This is a corner that didnt get planted earlier in the year, so I planted a few rows here as well.

I am so impressed with these beans!!!  These pictures were taken 4 days after planting, on July 8th.
Talk about getting out of the ground quick!!!  

Look for a 30 day update late next week some time.  I think you will be amazed at how much these have grown!!

Another Eagle Soybean Plot in Perry County, Tennessee

This tract of land belongs to a TNDeer member who had contacted me through the Deer Talk forum.  It was a awesome tract of land, not far from Mousetail Landing State Park, right off the Tennessee River. 

It was a series of small plots, with lots of browse in between, and he even had a great orchard planted with  pear and apple trees.  We did'nt have time to snap many pictures, as we where trying to beat some rain, but our work paid off! 

Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program-Rutherford Co.

This was a very unique project that we kind of stumbled into.  I say we, as my father and I also have a construction/excavating company, and this customer had been approved to clear 7 acres of forest for wildlife food plots.  So after we started clearing, I made plans with the landowner and our local NRCS agent on what we would be planting.  Since this project was started in the later part of the spring, and our spring was one of the wettest on record, we had several delays on getting it sowed down.  We decided that a annual cover crop of Mancan Buckwheat would be sowed and left to stand till fall when we could work the ground again and sow a clover mixture.  Here are some shots of the clearing process, the prep of the soil and the planting of the Buckwheat.