E-fencing cereal grains?

dogghr said:

Once upon a time, in a forum far far away was fellow that advocated planting Rye early summer and swore deer fed on the mature tops that stood thru his 2 ft of snow thru his northern winters. Made for some very argumentive reading, but always found it an interesting perspective and even then in all fairness he was doing the throw and mow back then that now many of us do these days. Maybe it doesn’t need fenced, maybe it doesn’t need to be new growth, maybe he was on to something, I’ve never tested his theory except to allow WR and WW replant itself each summer for fall feed saving cost and sweat of a replanting. Just throwing this out there for consideration.

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dogghr said:

Once upon a time, in a forum far far away was fellow that advocated planting Rye early summer and swore deer fed on the mature tops that stood thru his 2 ft of snow thru his northern winters. Made for some very argumentive reading, but always found it an interesting perspective and even then in all fairness he was doing the throw and mow back then that now many of us do these days. Maybe it doesn’t need fenced, maybe it doesn’t need to be new growth, maybe he was on to something, I’ve never tested his theory except to allow WR and WW replant itself each summer for fall feed saving cost and sweat of a replanting. Just throwing this out there for consideration.

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Mennoniteman said:

I've never had small grain reseed itself to the extent that it would have been considered a viable crop. Just goes to show how different it is to plant in different areas.

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catscratch said:

I thought rye and wheat had to vernalize over winter to mature and make seed heads?. Either way, my wheat heads are gone by late July so no reseeding or winter grain. I'm certainly not opposed to trying to grow some from spring until winter though. I wonder what that would look like by December?

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dogghr said:

My WR and WW resends so well that every few years I have to spray to set it back for fall rotation. This was one of those years. The RC planted with them typically, also reseeds pretty decent. And any WC in the plot just laughs at the Gly if I spray and re emerges.
I think Dipper still has his thread on another forum tho he’s been banned from there. I didn’t speak well, as the deer weren’t eating seed heads late winter, but the rye itself despite becoming mature and steemy. At least he claimed that, I’ve never tested the theory.

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dogghr said:

Once greenup occurs here they have plenty of woody browse on my place and prefer that and clovers and oats to eat. Rye and wheat just grows for cover and soil thru summer
If I used awnless wheat as you, theymaybe would browse it more. Since all the farmers here cover crop winter with grains and brassica anymore,they maybe just tired of eating it. Never know what deer are thinking.

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dogghr said:

My WR and WW resends so well that every few years I have to spray to set it back for fall rotation. This was one of those years. The RC planted with them typically, also reseeds pretty decent. And any WC in the plot just laughs at the Gly if I spray and re emerges.
I think Dipper still has his thread on another forum tho he’s been banned from there. I didn’t speak well, as the deer weren’t eating seed heads late winter, but the rye itself despite becoming mature and steemy. At least he claimed that, I’ve never tested the theory.

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dogghr said:

My WR and WW resends so well that every few years I have to spray to set it back for fall rotation. This was one of those years. The RC planted with them typically, also reseeds pretty decent. And any WC in the plot just laughs at the Gly if I spray and re emerges.
I think Dipper still has his thread on another forum tho he’s been banned from there. I didn’t speak well, as the deer weren’t eating seed heads late winter, but the rye itself despite becoming mature and steemy. At least he claimed that, I’ve never tested the theory.

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