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For those that plant food plots for in hog country, have you had problems with seeding only to find that a group of hogs came in ate all of your seed? Two years ago I had this problem happen to me .

This fall I would like to retry planting an acre size plot … fencing is really not an option . Any ideas or tips to seeding a good plot?

When I did plant I used a simple broadcast method which resulted in limited seed to soil contact. This year we have a much better tractor and we will be able to disc the soil. I was thinking about taking in the seed after broadcasting it. Thoughts?

From my experience I would not plant any oats, stick with wheat and winter rye. The hogs have rooted up some of our food plots and seem to be eating the turnip and radish. This is only our second time with major hog problems in 30 years, but what a pain in the azz.

We plant mostly wheat and oats...2 to 1, thankfully we only had one year where hogs destroyed one end of a 2 acre foodplot...and that end had the most oats. I'd love to plant chufa, but it would just be a waste of money with hogs around. My neighbor tried to plant some corn about 300 yards off the property line, I sat their and watched a big group of hogs destroy it one morning.

Haven’t had them eat the seeds,

But they’ll mess up a food plot.

A sounder can do real damage in just a couple nights. Which can be a problem If you can’t check it often.

I plant wheat, bob oats and Elbon rye.

I have durana clover in one and wheat/trilicate/greens mix in another... they will graze on the stuff and start digging this time of year. I just sit on it and kill them...

Hogs can fuuuck up a wet dream. Rye or wheat is your best bet,plant right before a big rain if possible.

Try a clover. They won’t look for the small seeds. They will graze the plot once it’s up. If you plant it in the Spring you should have a good stand by the time fall gets here.

If you get the right clover, and take care of it, you will not have to replant every year.

Don’t disk it completely, try to just get the ground cut enough for the seeds to fall in. Drag to cover.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t hogs are a pain in the ass no matter what you do

Since Alabama legalized hunting over bait (don't kid ourselves, it is not really "hunting"), I realized that I can put a feeder up, feed corn all year and have much less cost than a food plot.

Think about what it takes, in time and diesel fuel, to work up a food plot. Add in the cost of fertilizer and seed. Then, in one night, a sounder of hogs ruins the entire field.

With a feeder in place, they tear up much less ground.

Yes, I try to kill them. I even go so far as to use night vision equipment. Hogs are smart. I've read you need to kill 70%/year just to keep them in check. My experience is that they show up, we kill a few and they are scarce for a couple of months. They reappear and we kill a few and the cycle continues.

A neighbor installed a "Hog Fence". It is about 4' high and curved outward. Supposedly, hogs can exit but can't enter. Deer have no problem jumping over it. Only hogs I've seen around it was one sounder that scampered toward the fence. The little ones ran right thru. The mature hogs couldn't get in. I wondered if the little ones came back out later.

While I enjoy tractor work, I get more than I want just with the bush hogging and road maintenance chores.

Build a round pen, have a feeder in it, have a trap gate. I catch lots of them. Spotted pigs are extra points!

Feeder hanging in tree, goes off a 9:00 pm every day for 2 seconds, caught several hundred in this pen since I built it. I caught them at my deer feeders for years, but I see a lot more deer since I stopped that. I’m gonna build another designated piggie pen soon. I have a cage trap, but that is usually one pig at a time.




Cage trap has a feeder in it also

Sometimes hogs get in the plowing mood and do a number on the small plots we have.

I think they are just mad because we put hog panels around the feeders so they could not tear them up.

It does come in spurts but they don't do the whole field.

We usually just plant wheat and some Austrian winter peas.

They can jack up a football or soccer field too. We had several messed up at my former place of employment

The only farm crop I’ve found that they won’t eat is the Cotton Plant, or the cotton it produces.

But they will hit a freshly planted field of cotton and go down the row, rooting up the cotton seeds with their snout and eating them. 😡

My experience with hogs is they will hit a food plot and tear it up a bit and move on. If you got a corn feeder they will take up residence. With a feeder your hog farmin.

Hanco you are doing the Lord's work. Be Well, RZ.

It’s like someone came in with a shop vac and removed 100 lbs of seed the next week after I returned. I have counted up to 14 hogs on my camera.

They can eat a lot!!

we have had turkeys do the same, come in and scratch a patch to death to pull the seeds.

Farmers here plant mostly corn, they have to be careful and watchful the first week or two,. They will eat it all up going down a row.

We have pigs in TX finally on the family place. We still plant food plots of oats mostly. Have not had them destroy a plot but they can come in and mess some of it up.

Talking to the farmers around I think there is no solution, other than dogs, shoot etc.. that kind of keeps em at bay at the critical times.

Be fun to sit out there with night vision