Seems we have several on this board who are pursuing habitat work and we have had a good thread going here. I thought I would share an easy strategy that has worked well on my farm. I use a wide variety of grains and green browse food plots, but probably the easiest is to till up ground in July and plant ceral rye, tillage radishes and turnips. I mow the plot and then spray with roundup to kill the existing vegetation, then till it with 3pt tiller on my tractor. I get a fertilizer buggy at the coop and have them mix N, P, K, pelletized lime and Rye and Radish seeds and then spread in one pass. I then run a cultipacker over the ground and then hand seed in the turnip seed and cultipack it again. Done. Photos of the life cyle of this type of plot.
The plot in October 2017. A great deal of green browse tonnage for deer and turkeys and tubers for winter feed.

The Deer pounding the Radishes in Nov

Nice 8 pt cruising the plot in Nov

Same plot April 2018 when the rye is greening up. Note the Little Bluesteam cover at the edge.

Same Plot today with the Rye all headed out and native forbs blooming

View looking down. Lots of bare ground - Excellent Brood Habitat for quail and turkeys with Little Bluestem CRP bordering on 3 sides for nesting. In July I will till it up and repeat for another year then rotate to soybeans or corn. In the alternative a guy can spray and mow it in late august and overseed ladino clover and wheat, mow off the wheat the following spring and have a clover plot for several years ...

That rye/radish/turnip plot butts up to another plot which is a qtr mile long and 50 yards wide with Little Bluestem CRP along both sides and the far end. Last fall it was in soybeans and this year it is in corn. The long and narrow design creates a great deal more edge habitat where winter cover, nesting cover and escape cover are next to fall/winter food and bare ground for brood habitat. Much better design than square fields/plots as well as staying up on the ridgetop keeps soil erosion to a minimum.
I was hunting from an open air treestand over the plot on Dec 29th, 2017 in 3 degrees and snow and took a nice 10pt with my muzzleloader. While hunting I heard and saw quail feeding in the soybeans and watched a Coopers Hawk trying to feed on a quail. With one half mile of good tall warm season grass and then woody cover next to that it provides winter thermal cover, predator escape cover and food. I finished putting up a hot wire fence around this morning to keep the deer from eating all the corn plants before they have a chance to put on ears. I took the photo this morning from the same treestand.

Thought it might give some of you fellow habitat managers some ideas.