Improve Quail, Turkey & Deer Habitat/Forage By Just Discing?!

Looks like a good and cheap option for providing better food and habitat for multiple species. Thanks for sharing. Would there be any benefit in spreading some fertilizer in the spring? Or is that a waste of time and money?

So , how about showing the disking process and cut back on the rambling talk talk . You could of slayed in your front yard and waved your hands around.

Great video.. thx

No till guys must be losing their minds
Love the Habitat work here!

Are you talking about just scratching the surface with the disc with one or two light passes, or discing everything down like you are preparing a seed bed for a new crop, but just letting nature take over after thoroughly discing?

Dr Lashley, you are in a field EXACTLY like the one I created this year in Mid Georgia. Took a field of sweet gum, serecia, and scattered woody understory to a field of PURE ragweed over 3 acres with the rest of the 10 acres about 40% ragweed. The rest is mainly golden rod, blackberry and a few surviving sweet gums. Spot sprayed the serecia and some smaller sweetgums with triclopyr late last summer, ran a hot fire through late March just after green up, and sat back to watch. I did not disc and had a GREAT response! Moving forward, what sort of burn timing would you suggest to maintain this? I am hesitant to disc because of serecia, but I can if need be.

This is good stuff. I like to see folks manage for all of creation and it’s creatures…not just whitetails. Cheap easy way to maybe cut off some of those inside corners before the bigger plots.

I am converting 7 acres of perennial pasture to deer and turkey use. I have put in several different small food plors and creating a fethered edge. I also burned all the grass this feb as it had never been done and the thatch was incredibly thick. How many applications and timing of glyp do I need in order to kill the grass and allow the forbs to dominate?

This is what I'm starting to do with an old pasture. As I rotate small annual food plots through it, I'm letting whatever comes up naturally happen, other than throwing a few clover and wildflower seeds here and there. I'll hit it with Clethodim if too much grass comes back.

I see your point about turkey habitat for young poults. But to me, this field is essentially worthless when it comes to influencing deer movement, providing deer food, or providing any sort of cover for whitetails from October through May. It is cool that all this summer forage can be created...but until I see does and bucks piled in a field of ragweed in July...I remain skeptical.

Will all of that vegetation die in the winter or will it provide deer forage in the winter as well?

I've got about 10 acres of grasses - broomsedge, blue stem.

If I just run a disc through it will I get something like that or will I get more grass?

I've burned it in the past and the grass seemed to love it.

Dr grant woods isn’t gonna be happy about this