Food plotting

[N2TRKYS]

If your soil is sandy or loamy, "chufa" is superb for turkeys and even good deer graze.

If I had the space for it, I’d rather have peanuts over chufas.

 

[Amos Keeto]

If I had the space for it, I’d rather have peanuts over chufas.

Plant peanuts where I hunt and the deer wouldn't let them last! Deer LOVE peanuts!
Lot'sa peanut growers back in East Texas where I grew up!

 

[Habitat#1]

I have deer walking through my wheat plots to get to our tricale cover crop fields

 

[Amos Keeto]

I have deer walking through my wheat plots to get to our tricale cover crop fields

Hey! Whatever works!
If planting chrysanthemums drew in deer, I'd plant 'em!

 

[K9kodi]

I can’t wait. I truly believe some crops are a learned behavior, for instance turnips, I think it needs to be a generational thing that does teach fawns. Eating the tops is one thing, learning to dig up a field towards the end of season for the roots I think is learned.

I’m gonna start w wheat and cereal rye, beardless wheat rather and cereal rye in 2-3 diff plots and boarder with some sorghum and turnips and see how it does. I believe the wheat and rye will at nutrients to the soil, help regulate it a bit, and maybe rotate between candy crops and wheat / rye fields.

 

[Rich M]

I know buckwheat, hemp, alyce clover help soil.

 

[LostArra]

I plant oats, cereal rye, and wheat(100 lbs of each/acre) and mix in alittle clover for the turkeys in the Spring. I also like to plant purple top turnips.

300# per acre? I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who carpets the earth with seed but you have me beat.
I just need a way to get rain on demand. This past fall was tough.

 

[N2TRKYS]

300# per acre? I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who carpets the earth with seed but you have me beat.
I just need a way to get rain on demand. This past fall was tough.

This year I did one 50 lbs bag of each per acre and it just wasn’t enough. I’ve found that the deer can’t eat it, if it’s not there. Lol

 

[K9kodi]

I was tempted to set up sprinklers haha. My farm sits on a big asss lake but I’m not sure many would appreciate that

 

[N2TRKYS]

I can’t wait. I truly believe some crops are a learned behavior, for instance turnips, I think it needs to be a generational thing that does teach fawns. Eating the tops is one thing, learning to dig up a field towards the end of season for the roots I think is learned.

I’m gonna start w wheat and cereal rye, beardless wheat rather and cereal rye in 2-3 diff plots and boarder with some sorghum and turnips and see how it does. I believe the wheat and rye will at nutrients to the soil, help regulate it a bit, and maybe rotate between candy crops and wheat / rye fields.

If your fields are big enough, you can separate the plantings(rye in one section, wheat in another, etc) in one field to see what they prefer.

Good luck!

 

[K9kodi]

That was an idea. I’ve also done some research and what I’ve learned is that planting candy crops (soybean, corn, sorghum) stuff like that is great but it doesn’t complete the nutrient cycle they need and desire and therefore seek. Often times people will plant a soybean or corn field and see the deer smacking the roughage on the outside just as well to complete they requirements, so not this upcoming season, but the one to follow I’m thinking one large candy crop and one large wheat/rye crop