Although the corn and soybean production in western Kentucky provides ample food for our deer, outfitters and local land owners want to attract deer to their land. To help them achieve success a Wildlife Food Plot Workshop was offered by Trigg and Lyon County Extension ANR Agents at the Trigg County Recreational Complex in Cadiz. University of Kentucky Extension Wildlife Specialist, Dr. Matt Springer, was the speaker. 

The site was prepared in advance including taking a soil sample then chemically burning down the turf. Video footage of this was used in a presentation for the weekly “From the Woods Today” live Zoom meeting. Subsequently, the site was disced with a small disk pulled by a four-wheeler, seeded and then disced again and a small cultipacker was pulled over the site for good seed-to-soil contact. This was used in a second “From the Woods Today” webinar. For the workshop, plant selection, seeding rates were discussed followed by a demonstration of the equipment and seeding.