Assessing and Planning the Clover Food Plot

[Music] guys let's ride on over the other side of the farm here and check things out so a minute ago when we rode by here you might have said man what's all those big rocks doing there well here's what they are so this rock is called Rip raft rock this rock is going to be used around the house for uh landscaping and different spots that are washing we pack it around the uh Creek edges and stuff like that if they're washing out so this is for erosion control these rocks are 25 to 50 pounds each which are pretty big pretty heavy and they won't move when it rains so that's the main thing when it rains water might wash away from them but they'll sink down in the ground a little bit and hold ground steady and that's what we want prevent erosion this guy's been waiting on a phone call here hello it's Josh Josh yes sir this is Richard I'm getting I'm just stop got fuel I'm pick and pull out and come your way okay what about 25 minutes yes sir here we are in our 25 acre field we just cleared this 25 acre field last March so this time last year this was all dirt and mud I seated this with about 3,000 lb of grass seed and then came back and overseed it again with 3,000 more pounds of grass seed what you need to know is no matter what you do you cannot make top soil appear out of thin air you've got to add organic material to the soil in order to promote top soil if if you do the research people think the land in the woods is more fertile and has more top soil but they're wrong grasslands have more fertile top soil than wooded lands with that being said we're not mowing this for hay this year but we are having some fertilizer brought out today and we've already put down Limestone to bring the pH of the soil up and we're going to have to put down some fertilizer this fertilizer is an organic mix of fertilizer it's not purely organic it sets us back 3 years in getting organically certified on our farm it's a bummer but it's something that we're going to have to do in order to promote the greater good here on this land that being said I'll show you if you look behind me there's just Barren land in spots even though I work so hard and put so much seed down the seed won't grow if there is no nutrient in the soil we're trying to provide nutrients but we don't have nutrients to provide without using some sort of fertilizer so the fertilizer truck should be here in just a few minutes it's from our local co-op it's called Southern States we're putting down triple 17 it's 17…