Unless you own thousands of dollars worth of farm equipment and have unlimited time for labor, planting wildlife food plots is not a cheap undertaking.
Here are some cost ranges for various kinds of plot work:
• Mowing food plots pre-disking: Tractor operation $35-50 per hour.
• Disking established plots: $35-75 per hour.
• Dozer work to build plots or other camp projects: $90-125 per hour.
• Seed and fertilizer spreading: $35-75 per hour.
• Seed harrowing or covering: $35-75 per hour.
• Seeds: Up to $50 a 30- or 40-pound sack of generic seed.
• Fertilizer: $16 to $25 for 40-pound bag of 13-13-13 (figure 200 pounds per acre)
These are very basic costs for planting food plots. On our deer club of 600 acres, we plant 40 acres of wildlife plots. The annual fee for bush hogging in prep of disking, then disking twice runs us $1,400. The seed and fertilizer ticket goes $1,200. The total is $2,600.
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