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With clover, turnips, parsnips and rutabagas you just need to get the surface scratched up although with the root crops best to have about 6 inches of loose loamy soil. As Bearpaw said for the clover just get part of an old springtooth harrow to drag behind the ATV, should be able to get around most of the trees Start early in the spring before the ground gets to hard and you should be able to get a pretty good depth. Or find a single section of a disc unitYou'd be surprised how turnips draw in the deer
If you can't get a section of harrow, in a pinch you can drag a section of chain link fence with cinder blocks on it for weight.
Any of the experienced food plotters have any recommendations on equipment needed. I've been looking at tow behind stuff for the atv. Theres so many options and ide prefer not to waste money on something that doesnt work as well as another option. The soil I have is pretty hard and the plot is going to go where I have a bunch of little 10-12 ft pines growing. I was thinking cutting out all my pines and leaving the very few furs and such standing to let grow then going through with a backhoe to remove all the stumps and skim all the other crap growing off the surface. I was looking at disc plows? Im open to all suggestions. Preferably keeping it on less expensive equipment as I dont want to spend thousands but still get quality equipment that will last. Thanks again everyone! Im excited for the spring!