The struggle is real when you live in the middle of the Shawnee National forest and have a super high density of not only deer, but rabbits, woodchucks, crows, and many other food plot eating critters! But I am not giving up just yet this year! Join us for a near 6 week process of my corn and soybean food plots as this year I promised myself I would be much more diligent with weed competition, soil preparation and ongoing fertilizing! Without giving away too much information on this very complete and informative video, I did have to RE-PLANT BOTH the corn and soybean food plots! Each for different reasons. My original plan was to plant about 9 to 10 acres of corn and soybeans to try to overwhelm the wildlife grazers with enough tonnage so that I could just get some of the corn and soybeans to mature for some nice deer food plots come this fall. But as usual I was foiled once again! So the soybeans I got were free from a farmer that had leftover from last year. Free is always good, especially when you are talking about commercial soybeans that cost upwards of $50 to $100 bucks a bag! Join me for the whole process to see what went right, what went wrong, the current steps I’ve taken, some great corn and soybean food plot chronological updates, and and up to the day update as of today to see where we stand! I also put out some ‘human fakes,’ including several machines and my tractor in the fields to try to at least slow the eating carnage of the corn and soybeans. Also I added 2 new utilization cages to better gauage what I already believe, as far as the devastating critter carnage! So, definitely hit the like button, subscribe and hit the bell icon to follow my 2022 spring food plots for deer, as well as all of our mini excavator projects, skid steer projects, tractor projects, our VRBO cabin build project, UTV trail riding projects, DIY rustic red cedar and barn wood projects and all of our Country living adventures! Thank you. Kapper Outdoors, living the dream, one acre at a time.
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I need to replant one of my plots. I think it’s just been too dry for us here.
So it seems like planting 8 acres in thin strips isn't really working all that great. You can grow beans there because the farmer that planted that field on or visible from your property always grew them fine. Seems like you need to either plant more, fence those small strips off or ask the farmer to help you plant more.. i enjoy your videos but seems like after a couple years of similar results it might be time to try something different
We used a rag with men's cologne dabbed on it and tied around our scarecrows neck as a human scent.
The crows wouldn't even perch on the scarecrow…. Was told you can use anything with a human scent as they smell us before they see us.
Hey Kap, could you plant a mix of peas, beans, and oats along with the or over the forage beans or corn? It might help take pressure off of them.
Hey Kap crops looking good sir, one little suggestion you need to plant your corn thicker, we try to drop a seed about every 8 to 10 inches want to be around 25-30,000 seeds per acre we planted a 4 acre field and between the raccoons,squirrels and deer they hit it pretty good but we still have plenty of corn for hunting season
We did Eagles for years here in Florida and went to extreme lengths to get the deer to stay out..milorganite, human hair, Irish Spring soap, T shirts soaked in sweat, pixie wheels, scarecrows, string with streamers and pie plates…..at some point even Eagles can't keep up with the persistent browsing. Finally gave up on soybeans and went to clover in our fall grain mix and just let it ride out the summer. When we do a summer plot anymore, we do alyce clover and that seems to be able to withstand browsing better because it's not as tasty a soybean!
I had the same problem last year. The deer ate my plots to the ground before hunting season. This year I put up an electric fence around one 2 acre plot, it’s coming up great!!!! The other plot is getting mowed every day again.
Ha kapper u need to take out some doe for sure 🤣 come hunting season.
No fun when crops fail! You caught it early and are able to replant.
You have stunning property!
Great job!
Hey Kap- put out an efence around a couple acres, they work pretty well at keeping deer out. Some folks put out a few bags of field corn for the critters to eat instead of hitting your corn and bean plants.
Hello Joe and Sharon!! It’s been awhile since I’ve had a chance to take a peek at your videos. I’m fully settled in at the new homestead. I haven’t unpacked everything yet but I’m settled. The garden is producing a bounty of foods and I’ve never been happier. Commuting is a booger but there are trade offs throughout life. I hope your family is well. Take care from NC!!🙏
Need to open up some land for ag again, it'll take some of the pressure off.
As clean as your fields are in another month or so you can just overseed the fall blends right in with the corn and beans. I've seen where you use a can of soda to wet the beans so the inoculant will stick better. Pour it on top of the beans and then mix in the inoculant. Need to get a report on Phil's plots to see the comparison.
Put up a deer 🦌 feeder
There's no shortage of furry little woodland creatures at your place. Nice scarecrow, lol. I heard the bobwhites a couple of times in the video.
You're going to have to put up electric wire fencing if you want to give them a chance, I know you tried the tape before but just stick with a few stands of wire and you should be fine. It seems like every season you have the same problem.
Corn, is that for the new business, Kapper Moonshine 🥴
Well Kapper, do you still have that electric fence with the two layer white strips, the one the solar pack kept kicking out and for some reason Josh Beckett’s fence was working good?
Kinda like that dam duck pond drain.
The old saying knee high corn by 4th of July for corn is going to be close up here.
What a assignment you gave us with all those channels. Of course I hit them all, one had a very short clip of the Honda and one guy said he was coming out with his.
Not like Kapper Productions. They all replied and said that Kapper is one cool guy. You made a great impression on them JOE.
Lots of interesting channels but your videos where far ahead of theirs KAPPER. DO THEY HAVE UNITS with AC and power windows?
Hope it works out. Advertiser’s have learned money invested in target groups is well spent versus networks. ❤️ 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
With the size of your farm can't you use one of those gas cannons to scare the marauders away just long enough to let the crops get established 🤔 interesting video 👍
Joe, having the same issue over in Vienna. I'm trying a mix of spring forage peas along with my beans, pretty much over seeding, so we'll see how that works. Heading down again this weekend to do a little plot work, also heading over to Eddyville with the wife one day to try out the food.
I just bought the Reveal X 2.0 can't wait to try it out, I used to have the ever failing Spypoint 2 in 18 months fail. The pics look great!
That is frustrating and expensive !!
The eagle beans are nice but you have to get them going. If you can ever get them started good the deer can’t keep them browsed down. Stratton seed also makes a really good bean that’s a little cheaper the game changer soybean. Biologic has picked them up but you can order from Stratton as well. We tried them last season and once they got started the deer couldn’t eat them down we still had pods in a small plot 1 acre. Beans were still waist high even with crazy browse pressure.
You need to work on reducing deer numbers and improving native habitat.
Check out the Buffalo no till planting method used by Growingdeertv and Grant Woods. This may be your answer. He has an YouTube channel that has tons of information on the topic.
Those Eagle soybeans are packaged 60 miles from our farm.
Oh well , you planted the bait
Consider planting cereal rye this fall. No-till corn or soybeans into standing rye then terminate the rye with glysophate. The standing rye protects the new corn or bean growth this it can stand on its own. The deer do not go down into the rye and eat the young plants.
That corn just doesn’t look like it’s planted thick enough. I’m just on the outside looking in though.