'Grandpa Ray Outdoors Owner John O’Brion talks about maintaining clover food plots by mowing and using chemicals. Grandpa Ray Outdoors specializes in providing the best nutrition for the whitetail deer on your property starting with the soil. We do this by offering a full line of high quality food plot seed, plant foods and minerals. We go the extra mile by helping you understand the best way to use our products with our consulting services. Your bucks will grow larger racks but your does and fawns will also grow strong and healthy which helps winter survival as well as handling year-round stresses. Together, we can help you achieve the next level in whitetail deer management. Learn more – https://www.grandparayoutdoors.com/ See pictures of real food plots using Grandpa Ray Outdoors specific food plot mixes - https://www.grandparayoutdoors.com/testimonial---field-staff See pictures of some great whitetail bucks harvested over Grandpa Ray Outdoors food plots – https://www.grandparayoutdoors.com/2016-deer-harvest-pictures Learn more about our full line of food plot seed, mineral and other products - https://www.grandparayoutdoors.com/products Video transcript: I\'m John with Grandpa Ray Outdoors, and we\'re out in a clover plot with some chicory in it. It\'s probably typical of a lot of you guys\' as plots on May 27. You can see we got some grasses that are all heading out. I had a little bit of some other weeds growing in here – some broadleaves – got some dandelions. We got a pretty thick stand here – chicory and ladino clovers but the one thing I want to bring up here today is clipping. Here with Brad Jones of Scrapeline Hunters, and I was just mentioning to him that this is a plot that we want to be clipping now. Why is that? Because for those of you that are chemical happy, you don\'t have to be. If you came out here and clipped it, right when you\'re starting to produce seed heads on the grasses and the broadleaves, and ideally when it\'s just starting, you clip that, you\'re not going to be multiplying these weeds, these grasses, if you\'re not allowing that to produce seeds, so, come out here, clip it. We ideally want to clip no more – we want to leave at least 6 inches, no matter what. A rule of thumb in the grazing community is actually take half, leave half, so, if we had about a foot tall clover, chicory blend, take half the height. That way, the roots don\'t shut down, they pull up nutrients and they keep growing aggressively. So, come out here. I told Brad we\'d like to do that this week ideally clip it, then, we\'re going to help continually keeping the weeds down – the annual broad leaves, the grasses. Some of you like to come out with clethodim. Again, if you\'re gonna spray weeds with clethodim, any kind of herbicides that are contact herbicides, once the weeds grasses produce seedheads and go into reproduction, your chemicals do not work as well. So, wasted some time and energy and money. So, anyway a very typical plot got some broadleaves. Don\'t get so nervous. Go out here, clip it. You\'re probably gonna need to clip your clovers two to three times a year. And again, we want to clip right when your clovers or legumes or alfalfas are just starting to produce flowers and seed. And so, this next week would be a great time to clip this little clover, chicory plot here.'
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