Food Plot Fundementals Video

Stick’em Archery team walks through a weekend of Summer Food Plot preparation in South Carolina.  Team discusses some fundamentals to putting in your food plots to help set them up for greatest outcome.  These tips are from lessons learned, and experts who contribute to StickemArchery.com.  The key is getting it right from the start and [...]

How big does your Food Plot need to be?

By: Rans Thomas, Thomas Resources, Wildlife & Land Enhancement, Inc.
Contributor to StickemArchery.com

As hunters we hear about the importance of providing high quality nutrition to deer herds to maximize both antler development and body size.  I get to see the impact of providing whitetails with High Quality Year Round Food Plots throughout the country.  No [...]

Mossy Oak Biologic Planting Guide

 

Northern Planting Guide

To give your plants the best chance of success, plant with adequate soil moisture. Typically, early spring and fall planting will be the most successful. You can frost seed or plant in the spring when daytime high temps start to reach 63-65 degrees. Fall plantings should be planted prior to the [...]

Tecomate Seed Planting Guide

Tecomate Region Planting Guide

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In the 90′s Tecomate Seed was a Texas brand. The company evolved as a result of years of hard work, research and trophy whitetail bucks on the famed Tecomate Ranch. After scientifically proving what food plots could do for increasing the quantity [...]

Pulling Food Plot Soil Sample

By: Rans Thomas, Thomas Resources, Wildlife & Land Enhancement, Inc.
Contributor to StickemArchery.com
I often get questions about what type of fertilizer  to use on a  food plot.  This is a very common question but requires an indirect answer.  In order to know what fertilizer blend you need to apply for your plots and crops you MUST [...]

Planting Food Plot Level 1

By: Rans Thomas, Thomas Resources, Wildlife & Land Enhancement, Inc.
Contributor to StickemArchery.com
Choose LEVEL 1 if you have limited equipment and need suggestions on how to proceed. Ideally, you have an ATV or garden tractor with a small disk, some kind of seed/fertilizer spreader and a pump up sprayer. We would recommend that you find a [...]

Rye, Wheat and Oats- which one do you choose this year?

A common ingredient in many food plots are the cereal grains: rye, wheat and oats. What’s the difference in the three? They are all annuals, so they germinate and grow quickly and begin providing deer forage in a short time, and they are relatively easy to plant. This makes them ideal for fall-planted food plots [...]

Follow this Food Plot Part # 2

Bowhunting Boss here to update you on our north Georgia summer food plot is moving along well.  We have divided the farm into (4) plots with a variety seeds from Tecomate Lab Lab Plus, Buck Peas Plus and iron clay peas.  The larger two fields are close to (2) acres a piece that are planted [...]

Follow this Food Plot – Part 1

There are many aspects of bowhunting that are really fun.  One of them is being able to hunt small tracts of land that may be holding a monster on it.  I have harvested a lot of qaulity bucks on small tracts of land and depending on the food source available you may be able to [...]

Food Plot Planting Strategies

Food Plot Strategies – Q & A

By Rans Thomas
The Wildlife & Land Enhancement Company
Thomas Resources W&LE Inc.
As hunters we hear about the importance of providing high quality nutrition to deer herds to maximize both antler development and body size.    No matter if you hunt 20 acres or 2,000 acres there are strategies you can [...]