Services
No-Till Food Plot Planting
The last thing you want is a food plot full of weeds. If you till your property you bring weed seeds to the surface where they will germinate and out compete your desirable food plot blends. No-till greatly reduces this issue because the soil is not disturbed. We will terminate any growing weeds. Then prepare the soil according to what will be planted, and then drill the seeds directly into the soil. The results not only look good, they are more consistent and provide more tonnage of food per acre. Not to mention no-till allows for more soil moisture and the soil will not experience high soil temperatures as easily as tilled land thanks to the dead plants providing thatch and shade.
Above: Here you can see results of a no-till planting only weeks after, as well as an inset of a purple top radish in early October. Note the thatch is still visible indicating a good no-till planting occurred.
Timber Stand Improvement (TSI)
In NW PA food tends to be king but if your land cannot hold many deer, does will bed adjacent to the new food plots and bucks will be forced far back into neighbor's properties. This is where TSI comes in.
Let us design and implement a plan to increase the holding capacity of your property. Hinge cutting, edge feathering, plot screening all work to keep more deer in a smaller area as well as keep the deer close to the food so you can hunt daylight movement.
Above: sorghum and Egyptian Wheat combined with edge feathering drastically increased the number of buck sightings in daylight on this property.
Property Design
Let us design a plan to make your property to draw the biggest bucks in the neighborhood and more importantly set you up to hunt them on a consistent basis. It is not enough to create food plots or hinge cut some trees without a wholistic and comprehensive understanding of how you will be able to hunt the property.
Above: a screen shot from a fully outlined property plan. A full plan includes so much more than some aerial screen shots with some polygons. It will explain what needs completed and when. Along with proposed updates for your consideration for future improvements. If you hire us to do the work, great, if not that is fine too. Your laborers will have all the documentation they need to understand what needs completed and in which order.
Our Approach
Go Big
Maybe you already have the open land and saved hard to have the budget needed to plant it. We can accommodate this as well.
Hard to believe this was once an overgrown fallow fields. We took 9 acres and developed a food plot plan. Edge screening, corn, brassicas, and clover all played a part in turning this old pasture into a top notch deer magnet.
We are currently developing a plan to turn 70 acres of current pasture into a switch grass and early successional growth bedding metropolis, as well as install over 15 acres of food plots next year on this site!
Start Small
Unlike some property managers, we understand budgets are limited and customers want to see results before they invest more heavily in our services.
This was a log landing we cleared of trees and left the stumps for the time being. We were able to drill around them and build three quarters of an acre of tillage radishes. Needless to say this plot became the plot the bucks hit before heading into the neighbor's Ag fields after dark. You don't need acres of food plots to make a big improvement in your hunting success. These tillage radishes will loosen up the log landing's compacted soil and make planting of more nutrient intensive crops, like corn, possible next year. This is just one way we are always starting small while thinking big!
Work In Progress
This is the property of one of the land managers purchased in the summer of 2021. It was a hay field and took a large amount of amending to get the PH and nutrients where they needed to be, to grow crops like corn and soy beans.
We came up with a plan to make your property HUNTABLE. Many managers will leave you with a plan to get nice bucks on your property but not set you up for success when hunting them. Notice on this design the extensive use of cover to screen approach paths to hunting blinds. This strategy worked so well one blind took two mature bucks and a doe during rifle season. When was the last time you saw deer feeding near your blinds and felt comfortable approaching and leaving without fear of spooking them?