We have scaled our efforts back further and further every year. This year we spread the seed, bush hogged any really tall fields or really thick areas that were too tall for the seed spreader. Sprayed round up. Took us around 6-7 hours total and 2 weeks later our fields look great. I finally got my dad on board after he has seen how good the fields look with minimal effort.

We will let them grow all summer and not touch them until it is time to plant next fall. I am also going to experiment with at least one field next year and skip the spreading seed part. I feel like i probably have a good enough seed bank in the soil from 10+ years of planting the same crap that i would have success without even seeding. I could be wrong but i think it will at least do something.

. The only thing is we have a really wet summer I might have to bush hog mid summer to keep the future thatch from getting to thick.

I need to kick it with something. I put out coop trip 13 with lime in these two fields this time. It was the worst fertilizer I've ever spread. I won't make that mistake again.

Well we put our hat into the Throw n’ Mow ring this weekend with baby steps!

Did a side-by-side comparison on a ½ AC plot and an entire 1 ½ AC plot that is adjacent to the house and doesn’t get hunted.

Stuck with the traditional method on the rest of the fields, but got it all in before the rain. Cereal Rye, Coker Oats, Austrian Peas, Clover Mix (Crimson, Ladino & Arrowleaf) and Daikon Radish, along with the recommended fertilizer from the soil tests were applied.

Can’t wait to see the results.

We couldn't throw and mow this year. We had a really thick and healthy crop of wheat, oats and rye from last season. When it laid over around May, it really suppressed the weeds this summer. We didn't get the usual thick, 6' high weeds. The one thing that we did different was spread 33-0-0 in December. You could tell it made a difference but we decided not to do it this year. Nobody wants to do the extra work. When we sprayed late in the Summer it just flattened everything. There was plenty of debris on the ground but it was too low to mow. So, I made one pass with the disk and scratched the surface, seeded and then made one pass and scratched it in. It was still a big deviation from how we used to do it. I remember when we used the deep tillage approach and would disk until every single blade of grass and weed was completely turned under. One of the biggest things I've learned from throw and mow is that it's not necessary to turn everything under to get a food plot to grow. Since we've switched our tactics we have saved a lot of time and diesel fuel and not one deer has complained.