Feed & Seed Info

Since deer season is coming up and it's always hog season,thought I'd post a thread re. the prices,availability,where,and when,of the local deer,hog,and other critters feed (any feed) and seed to grow you plots or attractiants for the various critters that we hunt.

Today (10/1) in extreme NW Fla. --> dry corn is $6.50 per bushel(56lbs) at the local CO-OP. Ear corn is between 11 and 14 cents per pound. WalMart just dropped the price of their corn to $5.98 for 40lbs.

Day old bread is $4.00 for a bag of between 22 and 24 loafs. Hogs AND deer absolutely love this. --- pruhdlr

In MS, the co-op and the feed stores do not charge sales tax on grain/feed. I wonder if wal-mart is set up that way too. Even if not, that's still a good bit cheaper.

But, I wonder how long it would take to get out if there with a ton of corn? Probably 1/2 day?

The CO-OP's and the feed stores around here do not charge tax either if you let it be known that the feed is for LIVESTOCK. The WalMart stores DO charge tax on any attractants,feed,scents,lures,etc,etc.

If it is as cheap or even a little more I like to get the corn in 40lb bags. It is easier to handle that way. If I get it in bulk from the CO-OP it comes down a chute into YOUR container. I use the blue 55gal plastic bbls with a lid and a locking collar. Loaded to the top with dry corn they will hold 340lbs each. The bbls are loaded with corn on the bed of my truck then when I get home I have to transfer it into two other bbls because it is too heavy to offload off my truck.

Last year a friend of mine,which is a manager at a WalMart store,and I, split a pallet of the 40lb bags. A pallet is 50bags. He gets a 10% discount so it ended being cheaper than at the CO-OP which was $8.50 per bushel(last year at this time). --- pruhdlr

Got Nuts ?? A friend of a friend works at the semi-local CO-OP where peanuts are starting to come in. They are transported by the 50ft box trucks and unloaded into the floor by way of a long door that is opened in the bottom of the truck. The ones that are taken as a sampling or spilled over the edge of the floor are swept up and ..........uhhhhhh (??).......discarded. We get these peanuts and they are used to feed the deer and hogs.

Raw peanuts have a high fat content and will really help the animals thru even the rather mild winters that we have here in NW Flah-Dah. Last season I feed approx. 1200lbs of peanuts between my 3 different hunting areas that I have on my club. This year I have opened up another area with my D.R. and will feed it but not plant it. I have installed a ladder stand looking at the area and down the road just past it. I will have a 500yd shot there if I choose to take it. I have the roadway marked at 100yds and 200yds. That will most likely be as far as I will shoot.

Good Hunting To All --- pruhdlr

My local academy has 40# bags for 6.49 each. And they were nice enough to bring me a flat cart. I looked at my ticket and there was no sales tax on the corn.

It's funny you mention peanuts, I happen to have a bushel of green peanuts in the back of my truck I was going to put out today.

I've also got an empty peanut butter drum that I picked up from the co-op locally. There's probably a gallon or so of peanut butter left stuck on the inside walls and bottom of this 55 gallon drum. The drum itself is made out of fiberboard and I was planning on taking the lid off and putting it out by the feeder and letting them have at it. My plan is to see if they will totally consume the drum so I don't have to clean anything up.

You'd better anchor that puppy down....the hogs will have that in the next county.

I put some peanuts in an old blender and chop them up fairly fine(hulls and all). When I throw them out they are too small for the hogs/deer to eat and they produce tons of scent. The doves and cardinals tear 'em up though. --- pruhdlr

Got a tip the other day from the owner of a peanut growing operation where I have been culling deer(only one to go now). He grows some corn but mostly peanuts. Probably 30% : 70% ratio. He was telling me how the deer absolutely love the new growth peanuts when they are just a couple of inches tall. He sez the deer will not feed in the middle of the field,however they will nip them off a couple of rows in.

Sooooooo ....I figure that since I have a "few" peanuts I would try to plant some on my plots up at my club. So yesterday when I was planting I threw a half bag per plot into the tractors seed slinger. After I finished planting my buddy sez....."you know I was just thinkin',what if the hogs come on your plots and start rooting for the peanuts" ? Your gonna be awful mad when they tear up your plots." I told him,for me and my buddy with thermal,that would be a good thing. We'd rather hunt,kill,and eat a hog as a deer any ol' day.

So..........now have I planted my hog plots and could just happen to kill a deer ?? OR.......have I planted my deer plots and could just happen to kill a hog ?? --- pruhdlr

Man I need to find some land so I can get all this stuff out there.

Just for fun this year I planted some turnips on two of my food plots that are not subject to flooding. I figure if the deer don't mow the greens down the hogs will come rooting for the turnip once it starts forming/maturing.

At my club,purple top turnips grow really well. Deer can scratch them up since they grow(pretty much)at ground level. Washing out some of my seed containers,I've had them come up in my back yard.

I will start getting pumpkins tomorrow from a local seller that sets the "starting to rotten" ones aside for me. This will be the first year at this club to throw them out. At another club that I was in,it took several days to a week for the deer and hogs to start to eat them. I figure it was because they had never seen one before or maybe they had to ferment a little. After they started to be eaten,they tore 'em up. --- pruhdlr