Vet Judy

when getting ready to do a food plot tillage is often a big question. What do I need? What is available and what does what.

There are basically three different types of plows that you might run into when looking for tillage equipment for your do it yourself deer food plot.

There are disc, moldboard, and chisel plows.  In the disc plows for plots and other tillage requirements there is a big round disc which goes deep into the soil and rolls the soil over and mixes it. Not to be confused with a disc for finer work.

The moldboard plow is a breaking tool also. It lift the soil column and then drops in back down inverted.

The chisel plow is one that has long shanks that go into the ground. These are narrow shanks and do not mix or disturb the soil, they just break it up.

Do not confuse this with a subsoiler which goes much deeper as this severe depth is rarely required in food plots.

For more information on deer food plots see this resources page: http://www.diydeerfoodplots.com/articles/whitetail-deer-food-plots.html