Deer Food Plots

Wheat oat and a cereal rye, top sow some clover or a brassica.

can you buy cactus seed? I think thats about all that will currently grow in my plots.

Rye ( not rye grass) wheat, oats

I’m in SW Ms. We usually plant around the 2nd week of Oct. Don’t let the
Rain and “cool “ weather fool you into planting now. It will be hot and dry again. I’ve done it before and had to replant.

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Anyone planting ahead of the rain this week? We havent planted in years due to no open canopy. Finally got some plots cleared this year and are looking to plant. When/what do y’all recommend? We are in CenLa

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too early...

fight the urge and wait, heat drought, army worms etc, will all fight you

if you feel you have to do something go disc em

I’m doing same thing except the burning part

I hunt area 4 at the MS/LA state line. Usually plant around October 1st.

Put together my own mix for this year
Wheat
Forage oats
Ethiopian cabbage
Hunters Turnip
Seven top turnip
Georgia Collards
Balansa clover
Crimson clover
Chicory

Why?

Rye grass is the devil but wheat and oats are great, high protein, drought tolerant, very palatable deer forage. I like to top sow white clover (in bottoms) or crimson (on hills). Oats do need to be covered, or drilled etc.

The most important step in planting plots is a soil test. If you haven’t done that, do it now, then wait to plant until the end of Sep or early Oct.

Seen you responded to me but yeah that’s roughly what I plant, either a mix bag from Gatlin or Bluffs. Sometimes I just mix my own.

the one plant of the many that I put out that the deer really seem to target is forage rape.

The deer hammer it more than any of the others I put out. (wheat, cereal rye, oats, clovers, turnip, iron peas, rape)