What equipment do we need for planting and maintaining food plots?

We need different equipment for planting and maintaining food plots. The type of equipment needed depends upon the size of the plot. The plot may be small or big.

The small plot needs limited equipment but the big area will need big and more equipment for effective work.  

Before the beginning of the work, you must evaluate what equipment you need or if you really need it or not. There is both cheaper and more expensive equipment. However, do not always go for the cheap one. It can also come in cheap quality. 

You can buy planting equipment from equipment suppliers. They also deal in the Plantation of Processing Equipment. 

Through this article, let's talk about some of the equipment in detail to know about them better. 

Equipment for planting and maintaining food plots:

• Disk- A food plot installation requires a disk. It provides a proper seedbed where soils are loose and little thatch on the surface. If the plants grow after seeding, we get good seed-to-soil contact. The light disk cannot break the hard soils or sod. 

• Sprayer- One can use a sprayer to apply herbicides. You can for the backpack sprayer or the one which you can mount or pull with the ATV. By using the correct herbicides you can accomplish brush and weed control. 
  
  Must wear personal protective equipment while using the sprayer for applying pesticides. 

• Tractor- A tractor is generally necessary for a large food operation.  The size of the tractor depends upon the size, number, and accessibility of the plot. 

• Drills and seeders- Conventional seeders and no-till drills place the seed correctly in the soil which promotes high rates of plant survival after germination. 
  
  If the seeds are planted too deeply, the germination of the seed will take time because the seed is not obtaining sunlight properly.
  
  In drills and seeders, there are separate boxes for large and small seeds. They can be placed at different depths by properly adjusting the drill. 

• Fertilizer spreader- Forage in plants is fed by the nutrients in the soil. It is critical to maintaining long-lasting and high-yielding food plots.
  
  You can send the soil samples to the laboratory to analyze the amount and blend of fertilizer to use.  

• Mower- To control weeds and manage overgrown plots, a mower is a necessary piece of equipment. To produce high-quality forage perennial plots should be mown periodically. 
  
  You can remove the weedy vegetation through a mower before tilling the soil to make the tilling easier with small equipment. 
  
  One can buy this equipment easily. Suppliers also supply Made in USA Distillation Equipment. 

• Cultipacker- This equipment is used to firm soil in the seedbed before drilling or broadcasting seed. To firm the soil at the time of planting with packer wheels, the drills are designed in such a way that cultipacker may not be needed. 
  
  Other drills are not capable of doing that,  this is the reason we use cultipacker.
  
  It is a better tool after the broadcasting seed than dragging a piece of fence to cover seeds. With the cultipacker the depth of the seed is critical and firming is more uniform. 

• ATV- You can ATV to grow small-scale food plots. The ATV should have the capacity to handle the necessary equipment. ATVs are manufactured with specific product engine sizes. These are not designed to tow heavy ground-tilling equipment. So excessive wear and strain on the transmission should be avoided.  Slowly pulling heavy loads for an extended period of time can cause overheating. 

• Rotary hoe- A rotary hoe is similar to a rototiller. However, it operates from the power take-off and three-point hitch o a tractor. These units are used where there is a desire for finely tilled seedbeds. 
  
  After tilling with a rotary hoe, you can use cultipacker before planting to firm the seedbed. 

• Disc- There are many sizes and configurations of discs. For large tractors, three-point hitch models or large remote hydraulics can be used. 

Wrapping it up:

As we have discussed above. There are various kinds of planting equipment are there that people can use. You can choose them according to the plot you are using. 

If you need any planting equipment you can contact ‘AlaquaInc’. They are also the Heat Exchanger Equipment Supplier and other industrial machinery.